Inventory Management

Inventory management is where simple shopping carts and professional ecommerce web site design part ways. Let's start with the required functionality for certain products:

• If you sell apparel, or any product which is available in almost identical variations, variant level inventory management is essential.
• Variant level inventory management allows you to track the inventory on the variant level in opposite to the product level.

 

Variant Level Inventory vs Product Level Inventory Example:
Our sample inventory is comprised of woman's jeans in different sizes and several finishes such as dark, stone washed, rugged or ripped. It is essential for the business owner to know how many jeans are left for this particular cut in which size and which style and not just how many jeans are left total. This is a huge difference. The difference will most likely decide between success and failure of your online store.

In less powerful stores there is a work-around available to just enter a separate product for each variation, this is obviously not effective for entry of larger quantities. The customer will easily get bored looking through hundreds of almost identical products at this stage of the purchasing process and most likely will drop out. More about successful ecommerce solutions.

Our ecommerce stores go one step further with inventory control. Variant level pricing is also available. Taking the example below for Variant Level Inventory and adding one more variant - different prices for finishes such as stone washed vs. dark wash or for lengths such as 30" inseam vs. 34" inseam you have a very robust system that enables you to keep the choices simple for your customer and streamline your inventory and product manipulation.

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