Out of Stock Behavior
This article will go over how Zangerine handles inventory when it is out of stock and the various notifications you may receive.
- You’ll notice that a product is out of stock inside the product listing’s Inventory tab under All Warehouses. See image below:
- Zangerine will not stop you from creating a Sales Order for a product that is out of stock, but once you get to the picking module you will be presented with an out of stock message. See image below:
- Inside a product listing under the Purchasing tab, you can set low stock alerts. See image below:
- After setting these fields on your products, inside the Main menu purchasing tab, select Low Stock then Low Inventory. This will provide a list of items needing inventory restocked.
- If you don’t check (Product edit page) Allow backorders, and you run out of inventory, it will prevent your customers from ordering that item online.
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