Discontinued Stock Item, allow sales from specific warehouses

Hi @hannahw04 

We need to enable the active status of stock items and click on the below check if you would like to process orders with the quantity,

Disable the sales allowed in another warehouse

Hi @hannahw04 

One of the only ways to really allow sales for items is to ensure that the items are in just specific locations and specific warehouses. I would suggest doing a transfer to a specific place to only sell from until you deplete the total quantity all together. There is no way even on the item-warehouse details you can control allowing sales. 

@manikantad18 Thank you!
@Kandy Beatty Thank you!
This option works from a transaction perspective, after trying to convert to a shipment. But what I am hoping for is something that won’t allow a user to add the item to a SO for a given warehouse. Just having the Stock Item in a specific location that doesn’t allow sales, it does still allows them to add the item to a SO, print and email the confirmation before it provides an error that the sale is not allowed from that location (when create shipment step occurs). By this point, we have confirmed that the sale is available to the customer.

I can manually change the status to No Sales Allowed, and manually change it to the other warehouse SO’s. This allows me to still see the inventory available, but this is not going to work for SO’s that are automatically generated. 
 

After some testing, I think I am going to use a Discontinued Location to store the invty in the warehouse not available, and add a pop-up note on the stock item to trigger the user that it is not available for sale.

​@jamesh Sorry to reply on an old topic, but we have set up something similar to your suggestion, and are having some issues:

We have a business even set up to turn an inventory items status to No Sales once we have 0 available, and we change the re-order point to 0. The issue we have run into is that if we have 2 pcs left, and they are allocated to a sales order, (so 0 available triggers the BI) that item will not be drawn onto a shipment even though it’s in stock and allocated.

The issue we’re trying to solve with the BI is that we have hundreds of items oversold, because our sales reps just kept entering orders. If we change the BI to trigger on 0 On hand instead of 0 available we will continue to oversell.

I am wondering if there are any settings I can change that will allow items with a No Sales Status to still be drawn onto a shipment if they are already allocated, while not allowing that item to be entered into a new sales order?

I keep circling back on this issue time and time again and it seems we’re all suggesting a lot of silly Band-Aids to deal with the same end-of-lifecycle issues

We need a way to prevent inventory from being oversold once we can no longer source or produce (or simply decide we don’t want to offer it for sale any longer)

Nearly every ecommerce platform offers this option - it’s typically a toggle or item status that says “do not allow backorders”. We need a way to prevent new orders from being placed that exceeds available inventory without cutting off the ability to sell through the stock on hand

I’ve made a suggestion here that I’d encourage others to vote on or add more context and notes