This tab contains a table presenting your products' stock, as well as search options and allows you to directly edit your products' quantities.
A table allows you to have an overview of your catalog stock at a glance.
Each line represents a product (either standard, virtual or bundle) or one of its combinations. The only difference is that combination attributes are displayed just below the product’s name.
The table contains the following columns:
Image thumbnail, to help fast visual recognition.
Product’s name and when it’s a combination, its attributes’ values.
Product reference. In case a combination has its own reference then it’ll be used instead of the parent’s reference.
Supplier. In case several suppliers are assigned to a product, only the default supplier will be shown here.
Physical stock, which represents the quantity you actually have physically in your storage.
Reserved stock, which represents the quantity of products that are currently in an open customer order that has not been shipped yet.
Available stock, which is the quantity available for sale.
Edit quantity. This input allows modifying the quantity manually. See below.
Starting from version 1.7.2.0, PrestaShop introduces three different notions of stock, which are different from the ones used in Advanced Stock Management in the 1.6 versions.
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At any time, these 3 notions of stock are linked by the following equation: Physical stock - Reserved stock = Available stock Editing the physical stock will also affect the available stock, and vice-versa. |
Also, when a product is low on stock, you can ask PrestaShop to send you alerts. You can configure the low stock threshold as well as toggling the notification either globally in the "Product" page or per product. And then, in this stock overview page, products with a quantity under the low stock level are now highlighted. A quick filter has been added too, which allows you to quickly see products low on stock by placing them at the top of the list.
While editing the quantity, you’ll see an overview of the resulting final stock:
If you want to edit multiple quantities at the same time, you can also edit the quantities of several products and then validate it all with the “apply new quantity” button.
At the top of the tab, you’ll find two features to quickly look for any product. The search bar is designed for use-cases where you know which product you’re looking for because you either have in mind its reference, name or supplier. While the advanced filters allow you to browse more options to fine-tune your search.
The search bar looks for:
product’s name
product’s reference
supplier
[beta as of 1.7.2.0] attributes’ values. This allows you to look for a specific attribute value like color. When typing ‘green’, you’ll see all products which share this color attribute value. This is still in beta though, and might not work with too short attribute values like with sizes: ‘S’, ‘M’, ‘L’.
In the ‘Stock’ tab, advanced filters contain:
a supplier filter, which allows you to quickly browse available suppliers and choose one or several.
a category filter with an expandable tree.
This new stock management system is compatible with multi-store. For obvious reasons, if you have multiple shops inside a group where stocks are not shared, you cannot manage your stock in “all shops” or “group” context. If you try to do so, you might see the following error message:
Instead you have to select a shop in which you can work to edit its stock.
If you’re using a group of shops that share the same quantities, you’ll also have to select a unique shop context instead of a group but any change you make in a shop will also affect the other shops.