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Originally Posted by sosidge
What a crazy attitude to have in 2009!
There are loads of sites out there with reliable stock levels, it is easy to implement (even free ecommerce software has the facility to do this), all it takes is a little effort, and you will reap the financial rewards.
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I'm not sure the cheaper ones have live stock picking though, certainly I have seen duff info on ecommerce sites before!
The issue is it's easy to say in stock, even "5 in stock" at 5pm before closing for the night, but if 6 more are ordered overnight unless you have live stock pick someone gets told it's in stock when it isn't. Or if someone comes in the shop at 9am and buys one off the shelf before you've done the overnight orders!?
Plus even the best systems rely on correct info being manually imputted when stock arrives (you don't want to know how much a barcode scanning solution would be!!
I'm not sure I know of any shop which has a storefront and webshop who can be 100% accurate, though it's doable for a web only store!