Stock management

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Would it be possible to implement stock management?
E.g. 

Product A - 10 pieces
Product B - 1 pieces

When a customer buys 1 Product A and 1 Product B they are deducted to 
respectively 9 and 0 pieces.

Product B should then be either hidden/inactive from the frontend or get a 
label of "Sold out" or "Not in stock".
This could be a choice in the admin for the store owner.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by Christof...@gmail.com on 20 Oct 2011 at 8:53

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this is difficult to do right.

here are some of the problems:

1. let's say you sell products which have user-selected parameters, such as 
colour. how do you say that there are 3 in black, and 4 in blue?

2. if you do allow stock control on items that have user-selected parameters, 
then you must also allow for all possible combinations. let's say you have 
t-shirts with 5 colours, 5 sizes, 5 images. that's 125 combinations.

3. let's say there is 1 item left in stock. person A adds it to cart, goes to 
checkout, spends 10 minutes setting up a PayPal account then pays. in the 
meantime, person B has added it to the cart, gone to checkout, paid 
immediately. how do you reolve this?

Original comment by kae.verens@gmail.com on 20 Oct 2011 at 10:30

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basics are in place for this now. you can define what stock is in place, even 
for complex items which have multiple variations (like a jumper that's 
available in different colours and sizes).

for an example, see http://best4you.ie/

Original comment by kae.verens@gmail.com on 19 Feb 2012 at 2:39

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this is solved.

any further problems should be submitted as new issues

Original comment by kae.verens@gmail.com on 17 Oct 2012 at 12:14

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