Select Inventory
Introduction
This section allows you to update your inventory details.
Brands
Here you can select the brands whose products should be displayed on your application. Enabling it will allow you to select all the brands at once. Moreoever, by disabling it, you can remove (deselect) the brands.
Images & Products
Here you can select which products you want to show in your application. Here is what the following terms imply:
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Standard Images - Enabling this will display all the products that have proper images. Disabling this will show only imageless products.
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Imageless - Enabling this will display imageless products. Disabling this will show only those products with images.
Selecting both the options will display both, image and imageless products. You will have to select atleast one option among them.
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Out of Stock - Enabling this will display all the out of stock products along with the products that are in stock.
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Show only Verified Products - Enabling this will display all the products that have undergone a proper verification process. Disabling this will show unverified products along with the verified ones.
Orders
You'll have to enable this toggle button so that the customers can place an order.
Supply Configuration
Here you can select the origin of your inventory. In simpler terms, you can select one or more company/store whose product inventory you want to display in your application.
Inventory Scope
- Companies: Select the company from where you want to fetch the inventory and display products to your users. If you enable Other Selling Option which is next to it, you can select product inventory of more than one company, from the Company List drop-down.
- Store: Select the stores from where you want to fetch the inventory and display products to your users. If you enable Other Selling Option which is next to it, you can receive product inventory of stores that belong to other companies, from the Store List drop-down.
If you have selected Store
as your inventory scope , and if you haven't enabled Other Selling Option, you will be able to select an inventory from only those stores that belong to your company. Upon enabling Other Selling Option, you can view other companies and stores (that may not necessarily belong to you) and source their inventory.
How to activate or deactivate your store through supply configuration
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A store may not be operational due to various reasons, such as relocation, renovation, cost-cutting or permanently shut due to poor business. Assume that the store which sells the following item has to be deactivated.
Figure 4: Disabling A Store
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In the supply configuration, the drop-down has a list of all the stores.
Figure 5: List Of Active/Inactive Stores
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Clear the checkbox of the store you wish to deactivate.
Figure 6: Uncheck Store
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Save the configuration.
Figure 7: Display of Products
Further, the store will no longer appear as a selling location on the cart page.
If a store is deactivated, its entire inventory is removed and its products will no longer appear on the product listing page. To reactivate the store, select its checkbox in the supply configuration.