Manage Inventory

Hai Nicolas,
I sell a personalized tee and I want to manage the stock inventory.

For example I have several picture designs to be printed in the tee: Picture A, Picture B, etc
Each picture has their own variances.
Picture A - Design Color : White or Red
Picture B - Design Color : Green or Yellow

So I'll make 2 products : Picture A and Picture B.
In each product I make several characteristics.

For example on Picture A
1. Design Color : White or Red
2. Tee Option : T-Shirt or Baby Jumper
3. Size Option : XS, S, M, L and XL
4. Color Opton : White, Red, Pink, Green and Blue

For example on Picture B
1. Design Color : Green or Yellow
2. Tee Option : T-Shirt or Baby Jumper
3. Size Option : XS, S, M, L and XL
4. Color Opton : White, Red, Pink, Green and Blue


I need to control the inventory for the stock of T-Shirt and Baby Jumper (by size and by color).
Do you have any ideas how to do that?

Thanks Nicolas.


Regards
Dav

Hello Dav,

I think that you can do it by managing variants of your product in your product page and controling the quantity of each variant.

Hope this will help you a little.

Hai Mohamed and Nicolas,
Thanks for your fast response, appreciate it!

Well, it's not exactly what I mean.
Let's start with example.
I have a webstore selling personalized tee.
Let's assume that I have 5 pcs of blank t shirts as my inventory :
1. 1 pcs Size XS Color White
2. 1 pcs size S Color Red
3. 1 pcs size M Color Red
4. 2 pcs size M Color Pink

I have 2 designs as my product. Later, I'll print the design into my blank t-shirt.
So I created 2 product :
1. Product A - Design Car
2. Product B - Design House

For each product, I create the variant.
1. Product A - Design Car
Variant 1 : T-Shirt Size - XS, S, M, L and XL (Customer can choose the size of T Shirt)
Variant 2 : T-Shirt Color - White, Red, Pink, Blue (Customer can choose the color of T Shirt)
2. Product B - Design House
Variant 1 : T-Shirt Size - XS, S, M, L and XL (Customer can choose the size of T Shirt)
Variant 2 : T-Shirt Color - White, Red, Pink, Blue (Customer can choose the color of T Shirt)

How should I manage my inventory (blank t-shirt) to each variant? I have 40 variants, but I only have 5 pcs of blank t-shirt.
How can I share the same blank t-shirt to each product variant?
So when cutomer buy 1 pcs of Product A, XS, White, then my inventory of blank t-shirt (size XS color White) will also be minus 1?

Do you get what I mean?

Do you have any idea how should I manage the product, the variant and the inventory?

Thanks much Mohamed and Nicolas.

Regards
Dav

Hi Dav,

My idea would be to :

- Create ONE product named "Blank T-shirt" for example
- set the quantity to 5
- Create a new caracteristc named "Design" for example
- Add all caracterstics to your product named "Blank T-shirt"

Like this, I think that you'll be able to manage your stock easly.

Hai Nicolas,
I'm trying to use options. But option only can have 1 characteristic.
While in my case, I have several characteristic for my option.

I make 1 product (Design Car) and 2 options:
1. Option TShirt Size (with 5 characteristic - XS, S, M, L and XL)
2. Option TShirt Color (with 4 characteristic - White, Red, Pink and Blue)

While for inventory, the size and the color is related. So the stock should be :
1. TShirt Size XS Color White
2. TShirt Size S Color White
3. TShirt Size M Color White
4. TShirt Size L Color White
5. TShirt Size XL Color White
6. TShirt Size S Color Red
7. etc
8. etc
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20. TShirt Size XL Color Blue

Should I make these as 1 options : TShirt Size/Color? So in the options there will be 20 items dropdown?
Is there another way so I can separate it into TShirt Size (with 5 dropdown - XS, S, M, L and XL) and TShirt Color (with 4 dropdown - White, Red, Pink and Blue), but the inventory management is still working?

Thanks much Nicolas

Regards
Dav