they want to never dip below a certain stock amount.
Customers can buy as much as they want but they can’t touch anything once the in stock number goes to 3 (for example). Once there are only 3 in stock then the ability to purchase is not possible.
My client has rare plants in his nursery that aren’t found anywhere else in the state and he wants to make sure that people are aware that he has these rare plants but not allow them to buy every last one.
Rapicart Pro has online stock management. Couldn’t he just take the real stock number and minus 2? So, in your case above, the customer would only see 3 available, when there’s actually 5?
Depending on how the tracking system they use, there may be a simple way to get it automated (thinking like an excel sheet where column B is equal to column A minus 2, sort of thing) and then use that calculated number as what gets imported into your product list…
I can understand not wanting to keep two sets of data but, at the same time, if it isn’t available, it shouldn’t be part of the “in stock” amount. There are two sets of data, essentially.
Having said that, I’d drop an email to the Rapidcart Pro guys or the Cartloom guys and see what they say. There may be an option that I’m not thinking about.