Product variation - pack size

[Brennerz]

I'm in the process of choosing a website platform e.g. woocommerce but whilst researching I'm stuck to find which might be able to handle this better.

For example, a lot of my competitors will have 'Product A' with a dropdown menu 'Pack Size' so you can select for example Pack of 25, 50, 100

I know this is simple to do by setting up a variation product..... but the issue is stock levels being adjusted when someone buys.

With a simple variation it will just do:-
Starting stock level: 400
Customer selects Pack Size 50
New stock level: 399
What I would like it to be is: 350

What I don't want to do is setup a stock level for each pack size.... because then you are allocating a set amount of inventory per pack size without knowing which pack size will sell quicker/slower and therefore will require manual stock adjustment to equal the variation stock levels

Any ideas for an off the shelf system with a plugin etc which can help with this...... to complicate things I'm also expecting the same platform to be able to manage eBay stock figures, so it can't conflict with that either.

 

[wayzgoose]

Could you set them up as quantity discounts instead, rather than pack size?

 

[Brennerz]

Really, that's what I would prefer - but my fear is that all of my competitors for example on eBay do the drop down options rather than quantity discounts...... so its a concern that if that's the norm then my listing could look different or more expensive.....

But in order to do the variation option on eBay, it also has to be setup the same on my website in order for the stock sync between website and eBay.

I may have to do this option and see how it goes.

 

[WebDesires]

if you chose OpenCart as your platform, this is something we could build a module for to handle things like this.

 

[Anthony Kay]

You need a solution that supports multiple units of measure and it becomes very simple to handle. You define your stocking unit, purchase units, sell units and the calculations between them. Very common in many industries. Google “odoo multiple units of measure“ for an example of how they handle it.