I want customers to order the product even if it is out of stock, however I want to keep the Inventory tracking option ON as well. So for example if I have a product with 100 items in the stock, if someone orders it I need to see how much left in the inventory and on the other hand of product is out of stock, customer should still be able to order it. Is there a way we can achieve this while overriding any API?
We got it to work by using ajax and javascript. Basically we replaced the text that is generated by bigcommerce for inventory with a little script that checks inventory through our ERP. We then turned off inventory tracking for all products and backorders are now available. I wish I could post a few lines of code to help you, but the script is specific to our database. You can still use all the other features of the API (order import etc.), but you are not using the api for inventory tracking.
Hopefully this gets the wheels turning.
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I have a retail website built in Shopify Plus that is fed by an ERP. A couple times a month at least, I have sale events where some (not all) items get varying levels of discounts (I'll call this my store-wide sale), but my ERP doesn't have the ability to schedule temporary price changes.
I also have unrelated discounts that happen at the item level outside the store-wide sale cycle, so the solution needs to be able these to the store-wide sale price for that item and choose the lower of the two.
I can manually change all my prices with immediate effect in the ERP to start the sale and then manually do it again to put them back to the way it was, but that's time consuming, and normally needs to happen outside business hours. If I change the price in Shopify, the ERP just over-writes them.
Is this possible? Is there a solution short of implementing a PIM that will allow me to schedule my price changes in this way?
I was thinking of potentially keeping my store-wide discounts in a metafield and/or a tag on each item and using a script to do the math, pick the best price, and change the price at the line level in cart and maybe Javascript to over-write price displayed on the PDP and PLP to show that same price.
I realised a lot of merchants needed this, so I built an app for this. I'm sure it will do exactly as you need.
https://apps.shopify.com/simple-simons-price-scheduler
If you need additional features, just submit a request via the contact form. I'm pretty quick to implement features if I feel they're beneficial.
I am a shopify partner, I am trying to get around the the variant limits of shopify by coding an app and also because my client has a complicated formula for calculating the price. I don't have a problem with the part that adds the information for my variants to the order, however when I want to modify the price based on the user selection, it doesn't seem an easy task to do.
I came across couple of apps which does the same thing by adding a new product or variation which is not optimal for my use case, is there any app that does the job without adding extra information to the database, if so, how?
Qualified Yes
Unfortunately, Shopify doesn't give us a lot of options to edit prices of items dynamically. Here are the two options that I know of that will allow you to adjust the price of a product directly - however, both have limitations.
Using Shopify Script Editor
If you're working with a Shopify Plus merchant, you can use the Shopify Script Editor to dynamically adjust the prices of products, provided that the direction you adjust is down. You cannot increase the price of a product using the script editor - so for your use case, the list price would have to be the most expensive possible price that the item sells for, which you would then discount appropriately using the app.
Using draft orders
Using an app, you can use Shopify's Draft Order API to create an order with custom discounts and/or create completely custom items that are independent of the products set up in the product database.
The basic flow for this is that when the customer clicks 'checkout' you halt the normal navigation, send the cart contents to your app, create a draft order with the appropriate pricing, then supply the front-end code with the draft-order checkout/invoice URL so that you can send the customer there instead of the normal checkout. This has several limitations, however, including that prices of existing products can only be discounted, not increased, and the fact that Shopify will not allow a customer to use discount codes on a draft order invoice - once an order is set up this way, Shopify's assumption is that all prices are final.
Disclaimer: Sorry if someone sensible doesn't like a response with a link :) I'm not related to this app I'm just a user.
On a project with complex pricing, we use the app Wholesale Pricing Discount by Wholesale Helper we liked because is easy to import multiple pricing by-product and relate it by customer.
this app does not multiply the products, they use customer tags. maybe that can give you some guidance.
An important rule on Shopify is you can't increase the price by API on an order, you can just reduce i
Hi we have a shopify plus store and we have to provide a auto discount based on the customer groipus.
Suppose a customr is in vip group he should get automatically 50 % discount.
I can see shopify don't provide this.
Can you please provide an API reference with which i can detect the customer group and apply discount on his cart.
Check out the Shopify Script Generator here https://jgodson.github.io/shopify-script-creator/
I use this for creating all our scripts and it makes it so much easier.
I currently have a script which automatically applies free delivery to all customers with a "VIP Platinum" tag from our loyalty program, you can do the same thing for discounts.
tip, don't forget to export and save the file somewhere, this way if you need to edit or add another rule to it you don't need to start from scratch again.
edit: forgot to mention, as per your requirement this doesn't apply a discount code either. you can use the generator to create another script to block discounts from being used with this if you need/want
We have built an e-commerce web application (Node backend, Vue frontend). We process the payment using Stripe, but many brands have asked us if the order and inventory control can be done in Shopify. We are trying to figure out the best way integrate a payment module into Shopify so that the brand can manage the fulfilment and inventory through Shopify.
It seems we should use the Order API to create an order and mark it as paid. But how do we know that the product is in stock, and what are the cost for shipping and tax from Shopify when creating the order? I think we can use the Product API to get inventory levels, but where is the shipping and tax endpoints?
If I understand the Order API correctly, we need to tell Shopify what are the shipping costs and tax costs, when a new order is created. Is that right? How could we possibly know those figures? Seems like there should be an endpoint to calculate shipping costs and get a product's tax rates so that we can then pass those figures back into the Order API. Am I missing something?
I thought maybe we are supposed to create an order that has financial_status: pending first to get shipping and tax rates back (does it even give you those?), then update the order to either cancel_reason: customer or cancel_reason: inventory if those rates are too expensive and the order is declined? But surely we need to know what shipping methods are available to the customer in order to tell Shopify which one to use, right? Or does it by default choose the cheapest one when creating an order?
Notes:
We know the customers shipping address
We don't know where the product is warehoused (Shopify does I think)
We don't know the weights or dimensions of the product (Shopify does I think)
This answer is a little bit late, but i hope, i can help others that are struggling with the same issue.
First i would recommend to set up all Shipping Rates and Taxes in Shopify. There are plenty of manuals to achieve this:
https://help.shopify.com/manual/taxes#general-process-to-set-up-taxes
https://help.shopify.com/manual/shipping/rates-and-methods/calculated-rates
After this there are different possibilities to calculate your shipping and tax cost.
Your shipping cost can you get via the active_shipping API, which can be found here:
https://github.com/Shopify/active_shipping
Or the following Shopify Application: https://apps.shopify.com/boxify
However, you may need to know size and storage location for theese solutions.
The taxes can you get via the country in the Admin API, there is a specific key-value pair for this:
https://help.shopify.com/api/reference/country
I hope that's enough information to get closer to solving the issue, for at least someone.
I'm scouting for a business solution, I haven't tried bigcommerce yet but would want to confirm a few things first.
Is there a way to import historical sales data via API? Is there a direct way to do this?
Here are some of the available fields that I'd like to import:
Date
Product ordered
Sale price
Do you think it would work if I create a new product for this, assign the sale price to it, create an Order, assign the previously created product, and lastly mark the order complete? However, I wonder how this would affect my reports.
You can import all orders from BigCommerce using API.
Check Orders API Call.
Simple PHP cURL Snippet to get orders.