Product options and stock from your records
Sizes, colours and other options on the website are your products' own variants, each with its price, SKU and stock. When your database has Inventory, the site shows what is left and checkout will not sell what you do not have.
PLANSFrom Growth
The problem it solves
- The website says a size is available that sold out in the shop yesterday.
- Each colour is listed as a separate product, so buyers never see the choice in one place.
- Prices on the site are typed again and do not match the price list or the tax.
- Two buyers pay for the last piece and one of them gets a refund and an apology.
How it works
- Give the product its options in SmartMy as variants, for example Size S, M, L and Colour Red, Blue. Each variant can have its own price and SKU.
- Tick Sell Online. The site gets every active variant with its price including tax, its options and, with Inventory, its stock.
- On the product page buyers pick the options as buttons; price, stock line and SKU change with the choice.
- When stock changes, the site is updated within five minutes.
- At checkout SmartMy checks the stock again. If fewer pieces are left than asked for, the buyer is told how many remain.
Everything it does
Options
- Options are the product's attributes and values; each combination is a variant
- Each variant carries its price, SKU, barcode and options to the site
- Product cards show From and the lowest price when variants differ
- Option values also become filters on category pages
Prices
- Prices come from the product's sale price, or from the price list chosen for the site
- Prices are shown with tax when your products carry tax, with a note "incl. taxes"
- Price Before (struck through) is set per product and shown with the saving
- Buy more, pay less and deals lower the price at checkout as shown
Stock
- Read from Inventory for products that keep stock; services and products without stock are always buyable
- When something is out of stock: Show it as sold out, Hide it, or Keep selling (back-order)
- Sell When Out of Stock on a single product overrides the shop setting for it
- "Only a few left" shows when the total is below the number you set (5 to start with)
- Checkout refuses a quantity above stock unless back-orders are allowed
- Back-in-stock emails tell waiting buyers when it returns
Keeping the site up to date
- A change to a product's name, price, tax, options, pictures, description or categories marks the shop for sending
- Changed shops are sent every five minutes, and at once with Send to the site now
- Price list changes reach sites that use that list
Who uses it
Staff with Sales rightsKeep products, variants, prices and the Online Shop tab.
Stock staffKeep stock in Inventory, which the site reads (with a product that brings Inventory).
Website ManagerChooses what happens when something is out of stock and the price list of the site.
Where you use it
- Web: the product form in Sales (variants, prices, taxes) and its Online Shop tab
- Web: the editor's Shop tab, Shop settings
- Your website: the product page and product cards
What you control
Settings
- When something is out of stock: Show it as sold out (default), Hide it, Keep selling (back-order)
- Say "Only a few left" below: 5
- Sell When Out of Stock per product: off
- Prices from (price list): the products' sale prices to start with
Notifications
- Website Product Back in Stock: to a buyer who asked, once, by email (see Wishlist and alerts)
Works with
SmartMy Trade or SmartMy POSThey bring Inventory to the same database, so the site shows the same stock your warehouse and counters use.
Questions
We only have SmartMy Website. Will stock show?
No. The Website plans bring Sales but not Inventory, so products have no stock count and can always be bought. Stock shows when another SmartMy product in the same database brings Inventory.Can one size cost more than another?
Yes. Each variant can cost more through its option's extra price or your price list. The page shows the price of the chosen option.What if two people buy the last piece at once?
Stock is checked again when each order is placed. Once it is used up, the next checkout is told how many are left.How fast do price changes reach the site?
Within five minutes. A Website Manager can press Send to the site now in the Shop tab to send at once.Related features
SELLING AND MEMBERSOnline shop on your websiteSell your products on your own website: a shop page, a page for each product, a cart and a checkout. Each order arrives as an ordinary sales order in your SmartMy records, with the payment, delivery and discount on it.SELLING AND MEMBERSShop pages, filters and product pagesYour shop gets a front page with category tiles, a page for each category with filters, and a full page for each product. Filters and sorting live in the address, so a filtered list can be shared.SELLING AND MEMBERSWishlist, back-in-stock and price-drop emailsBuyers save products with a heart, share the list and add it all to the cart later. They can also ask for one email when a sold-out product is back or when a price drops.SELLING AND MEMBERSOften bought together and buy more, pay lessSuggest products that go together, with one button to add them all, and give a lower price per piece when a buyer takes more. Both are set on the product, and the lower price is charged at checkout as shown.BRANDS AND LARGER SHOPSSell in more currenciesShow prices and take payment in more currencies than your own. Each currency has its own price list, or your prices at today's rate, and visitors switch currency or get theirs by country.
See your business on a real design.
Tell us what you do and what the site needs to do: bring enquiries, take bookings, show your work or sell. We will start your site from the closest design with you.