Guide for Custom Stock Status

Use catchy stock statuses to engage your customers more and increase conversions.

Create unlimited number of product stock statuses
Assign stock statuses to products automatically or manually
Display out of stock options of configurable products
Use nice-looking icons for stock statuses
Display stock statuses based on product quantity

Create a custom stock status

To create a new custom stock status or edit the existing one:

Navigate to Admin panel - Catalog – Attributes – Manage Attributes;
Find Custom Stock Status attribute and click on it to edit it.

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Manage Label / Options

In the Manage Label / Options tab, create the desired options for the custom_stock_status attribute

If you would like to display current product quantity in some stock status, use {qty} variable, for example: Only {qty} left in stock!
You can use {yesterday}, {tomorrow}, {day-after-tomorrow} variables to display precise dates.
You can use any Text field and Date product attributes in custom stock statuses.To do this please add code of the attribute to the status like this, e.g. Back in stock on {eta}.
Use basic html e.g. <span style=“color:red”> to highlight statuses

Manage Icons

In the Manage Icons tab, upload images for the custom stock statuses you need.

Once you’ve browsed icons for the stock statuses, click Update Icons button, otherwise the icons won’t get uploaded.

Quantity Range Statuses

If you would like the statuses to change automatically based on how many items of a product are left in the inventory, create quantity ranges and assign the necessary statuses to the ranges.

If you choose to use range based stock statuses when editing a product, the stock status will change automatically once the product quantity changes.

You can also see Stock Status Rule column. With its help you can specify different quantity levels for the same statuses for different groups of products. E.g. you can show the same status Running out for Product A, when it has quantity from 1 to 5 and for Product B, when it has quantity from 1 to 100.

Rules for quantity ranges

Go to Catalog → Attributes → Manage Attributes and open attribute Custom Stock Status Qty Rule.

At the Manage Label / Options tab, create one rule for each product group, for which you will use different levels of stock. E.g. electronics_rule and books_rule.

You only need to specify a rule name at this page. Once you have created the rules here, go to Quantity Range Statuses and specify ranges for each rule.

Please, also enable the following setting System → Configuration → Custom Stosk status → Activate Rules For Quantity Range Status

Manage stock statuses for a product

Go to Admin Panel → Catalog → Manage Products and select the desired product to configure custom stock status it.

Custom Stock Status - edit the product(s), for which you need to use the custom stock status and choose the appropriate status at the General tab.

Hide Default Stock Status:

To display the custom status instead of the default one, choose Yes for the Hide Default Stock Status.
To display the custom status together with the default one, choose No for the Hide Default Stock Status.

Use Quantity Ranges based Stock status - If quantity based statuses are used, the status will change based on available quantity. If there’s no such range (e.g. you have 1000 items and the biggest range is 50-100), manually indicated status will be displayed.

Custom Stock Status Qty Rule - Use Custom Stock Status Qty Rule setting to choose which quantity rule should apply to this product.

General settings

To configure Custom Stock Status extension, go to Admin Panel → System → Configuration → Amasty Extensions → Custom Stock Status.

Display Custom Stock Status for out-of-stock items only - It is possible to display custom stock statuses only for “out of stock” products.

To enable this mode, go to System > Configuration > Catalog > Custom Stock Status and change No to Yes and click Save Config button.

Allow for Customer Group - You can display custom stock status for particular customer groups only. Use multiselect to specify the groups you want to display stock status to.

Use Quantity Ranges Based Statuses Only - If you would like to use only automatic, range based statuses, set this option to Yes.

Display Icons Only - To display only icons for stock statuses (without text), set this option to Yes.

Use Status Icon Title Text field to specify the text that will be displayed when customers hover mouse over a status icon (you can leave it empty).

Samples

The extension lets you display out of stock configurable options as well (add to cart button will not be displayed, when they are chosen). Also for out of stock configurations stock statuses are displayed right in the dropdown (both standard and custom statuses). For configurable products the custom status is displayed above the Add to Cart button.

The custom status is displayed next to the default one (or instead of it – configured by admin).

Customers now can sign up to get notified when out of stock options of configurable products arrive back in stock. This feature works only in enable alerts in the configuration section (admin panel → System → Configuration → Catalog → Product Alerts).