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Mastering Magento 2

You're reading from   Mastering Magento 2 Maximize the power of Magento 2 to create productive online stores

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785882364
Length 340 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Bret Williams Bret Williams
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Jonathan Bownds Jonathan Bownds
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Andre Gugliotti Andre Gugliotti
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Planning for Magento FREE CHAPTER 2. Installing Magento 2 3. Managing Products 4. Designs and Themes 5. Configuring to Sell 6. Managing Non-Product Content 7. Marketing Tools 8. Extending Magento 9. Optimizing Magento 10. Advanced Techniques 11. Pre-Launch Checklist Index

Managing inventory

If you sell actual products, you no doubt have inventory stock. Except in cases where you are having products drop-shipped from a distributor and have no means of monitoring inventory availability, you need to make sure you have enough inventory on hand to fulfill your orders. Furthermore, you may want to restrict customers' ability to order products that are out-of-stock — or, alternatively, allow customers to place backorders.

Magento has a host of configurations to help you establish your inventory rules and policies. Most can be overridden at the product level, too, giving you even more granular control over your product inventory needs.

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You can manage the individual inventory configurations of each product on the Advanced Inventory panel under Advanced Settings. These settings are very similar to the ones found in the Stores | Configuration | Catalog | Inventory panel.

The inventory configurations are covered in Chapter 2, Installing Magento 2. Here...

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