posted on September 24, 2002 07:44:23 PM new
Here's another thing I'm having difficulty with. When I create an item I place a 1 in the quantity available. I then place that one in the storefront. If I go back and edit that item to have 0 in the storefront (ie: don't want it to go into store yet) it changes my inventory counter to 2. Can you guys look into this. My inventory numbers are all wrong and I keep having to go in and re-edit everything to set them right. Thanks.
posted on September 25, 2002 06:49:37 AM new
I just figured it out. QTY AVAIL does not reflect the actual stock on hand qty, but rather the overages not yet listed (in store or auction) I was using a profile that I had obviously edited to reflect actual quantity, and when I took it out of the store it got added to that number. Still it's not a true reflection of actual inventory, but at least I know what the numbers really mean now.
posted on September 25, 2002 11:27:01 AM new
Hi Sonya (sorry - you must be sick and tired of hearing from me, but I'm trying to do it all correctly this time around) I create all my items in CREATE LISTING and the referenced qty numbers are what shows up in my inventory lists. Am I missing something - I thought the only way to enter a new item was through the CREATE LISTING area - you mentioned creating something in inventory, but I've never done that? I'm going to go and investigate that now.
Thanks again.
posted on September 25, 2002 11:33:34 AM new
Hello,
I was just confused on where you were selecting your quantity available since from your original post it wasn't clear if you were launching from create listing or from inventory. If I can get the process down that you are using, I can try to duplicate it on my end to see what is going on.
Yes, you can create in inventory and launch from there if you like.
posted on September 25, 2002 11:50:25 AM new
Sonya, I just looked into creating an item in inventory and it appears that profiles are not available as pull down choices when creating new items here. Am I correct here?
As for my "method" I do the following:
1) Go to create listing
2) Click on the appropriate profile
3) Click on Storefront
4) Edit item description
5) Enter 1 for qty available
6) Go down to storefront and enter 1 in store.
7) create item.
When I then go into inventory it shows 0 as qty avail and 1 as qty in storefront. I think for a while there I was editing the qty avail back to read 1 (because that's what I have) with that 1 showing in qty at storefront. Then when I pulled it out of my storefront my qty avail reverted to 2. As I mentioned in the earlier email - I see now that qty avail refers to EXTRA quantity on hand not including what is placed in the storefront. Now that I know what it means I can work with it, but it was a little confusing. Perhaps the QTY AVAIL column should have a different title and read EXTRA INVENTORY or something. I'm a newbie at all of this so I take some info at face value. (I need to learn to take the time and thouroughly investigate everything, but then I would need 90 hrs for any given day - wouldn't that be something!)
I hope this gibberish makes some sense to you.
Thanks again.
posted on September 25, 2002 11:56:06 AM new
Hello,
Okay now I understand what you have done. Quantity Available reflects on what you have available, that is not in your store or present in an auction.
Regarding profiles -- you create profiles in inventory so you can't apply them there. It might be best if you continued launching from create listing, I just wanted to let you know that listing from inventory is an option as well.
posted on September 25, 2002 12:00:11 PM new
Thanks Sonya, with your help I am getting a better handle on it all now. Hopefully I won't be bothering you guys again for a while.
