Managing the stock of a product

PrestaShop offers you different possibilities for managing stocks, depending on whether you sell simple products or products with variations. Let's discover them together!

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How to manage the stock of a simple product?

PrestaShop allows you to have fine-grained management of your inventory by setting it up product by product.

To do this, open the fiche of the product whose inventory you wish to manage, fill in the "Quantities" field and click on the following link, as illustrated in the gif below.

You will then access the "Quantities" tab, whose interface allows you to set up the inventory of this product.

• Quantity: indicate the quantities available for sale.
• Minimum quantity for sale: indicate the minimum number of products per sale.
• Stock location: Please indicate the location of the stock for this product - "Warehouse 1", "Warehouse 2", etc.
• Low stock level: Determine the number of remaining units for sale at which your stock is considered low. You can check the box "Send me an email when the quantity is below or equal to this level" to be alerted in case of low stock.
• Behavior in case of stock shortage: In case of stock shortage, PrestaShop allows you to refuse orders (default setting) or accept them (and thus engage in de facto pre-sales).
• Label if in stock: You can customize the label indicating that your product is available - "In stock", "Immediately available", etc.
• If out of stock (and pre-order authorized): you can customize the text indicating that your product is available for pre-order - “Pre-order now!”
• Availability date: determine the date from which your product will be available again.

How to manage the stock of a product with variations?

In the case of a product with variations, the quantities are managed in the interface allowing you to create the variations, the "Variations" tab, as shown in the gif below.

It is your responsibility to indicate the initial stock of all the variations. PrestaShop will use this information to determine if a product is soon out of stock or if it is no longer available.

How to activate and deactivate stock management?

Stock management allows you not to have to manage the quantity of each product manually, but to rely on PrestaShop to take care of this. Advanced stock management is very useful if you have a particularly extensive catalog, for example.

By default, stock management is activated. To deactivate it, go to the Shop Settings > Products page, click on this option and then on “Save”.

How to modify your stock shortage settings?

In the product sheet, the "Availability preferences" section allows you to select the behavior to adopt when there is no longer any quantity in stock:

• refuse orders (the product will no longer be available for sale)

• accept orders (in practice, this means you are doing pre-sales)

• use the default behavior

The latter option, "Use default behavior", configures PrestaShop's behavior more finely depending on the availability of the product in question. This allows you to customize the wording indicating that the product is in stock, as well as the wording used to inform the customer of a stock shortage.

The options are:

• Label if product in stock: which allows you to display a message to your visitors once the product is available, for example "In stock". This is a reassuring element because it means that you can immediately send them the product.
• Label if product out of stock but pre-order allowed: which allows you to display a message to your visitors when the product is unavailable but can still be ordered, for example "Pre-order". This can be a good point for your visitors, who will understand that you can send them the product as soon as it is back in stock.

You can also configure the global setting to apply to all products. The default setting is to refuse orders, but you can change this from the Shop Settings > Products page, under the "Allow ordering of out-of-stock products" option.

[metatitle:]Managing Product Stock - PrestaShop Help Center[:metatitle] [metadescription:]Learn how to set up product stock in your PrestaShop store.[:metadescription]