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There is no easy way to offer apparel items and track inventory. Right now, we are using kits to display all sizes for one shirt type, but this is very clunky and doesn't offer basic features such as allowing the user to choose between two different colors.
We have seen it is becoming more common for customers to request apparel on storefronts that already have business cards or other print on demand.
UPDATE: We have noticed that items in these apparel kits are no longer showing in the inventory on the site. According to support, items marked 'This product is not kit but can only be ordered in a kit' will no longer be displayed in the site inventory grid. We are having to send inventory spreadsheets from the admin page, which is taking a lot of automation away from the portal.
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It would be nice if we could also pass pricing engine selections to eDoc. We have multiple colors per product and the client has different logos that are placed on the item depending on their client that selects the product. Right now each shirt has to have 3-5 products with 3-5 eDoc templates. If the color from the spreadsheet pricing engine could be passed to eDoc I could use scripting to use the correct colored image to do the customization.
This could be merged with this other request:
https://aleyant.ideas.aha.io/ideas/PRESSERO-I-309
Also, to update my previous comments:
Using custom spreadsheet pricing calculators with size attributes, and sending those size attributes to a google sheet using zapier is technically working to let us track inventory, however, Zapier often has timeout errors and other failures that make it clunky and terrible.
We have actively looked at other platforms to handle apparel simply because of the lack of inventory for apparel in Pressero.
Currently, it's easiest to manually count the apparel weekly, which is insane that that is our best option. We're looking at building something with the API if better apparel management isn't added.
Our solution to this issue is using custom pricing sheets that have the basic sizes as qty 1-5 and extended sizes as product attributes. We're limited to a dropdown list of sizes for the extended sizes (not arbitrary quantities) and the pricing calculation is intense and slow. We have our inventory in a spreadsheet in the calculator to roughly keep people from over-ordering too many, but we have to manually update the calculators to keep track of inventory. Not ideal.
YES YES YES - this system needs better apparel handling and viewing for the customer! We could have so many more sites on this system if we handled this better!
We have apparel in inventory from sizes XS to 5XL. We offer dozens of different items, way too many to to have each size and color be a separate listing.
What I've done to work around this in the past is use the Pricing Spreadsheets to have our first 5 sizes in Quantity 1 through 5, and our remaining sizes in Other Parameters. Then the price and total quantity are calculated by the sheet, This works, but it has limitations. For the sizes in "Other Parameters", we can only have a dropdown of quantities, not arbitrary quantities. We also can't use Pressero's built in inventory to track any of these items, since we can only attach one product to one inventory,
Kits almost looked like it would solve this problem, because we could list each size and color. However, this didn't let us have separate prices for our plus size apparel, and it didn't let us apply quantity break pricing to all of the apparel of the same type (regardless of sizes or colors chosen).
Right now, we're using Zapier to pull our orders into a Google Sheet where we calculate and track our inventory ourselves. When an item sells out, we update the pricing spreadsheet or product to remove the sold out size, color, or product. It's a lot of manual work that would be simplified by having a dedicated set of apparel options.
We have a few sites that we are running into the same problem and not just apparel. Products that have different colors and the customer needs to keep track of the inventory. One I am currently working has 15 sizes for each product. We also use Marcom for a few sites, which has products and then you create SKU's under each product. It works very well but I would prefer using Pressero for other features that Marcom doesn't offer.
Also a need for our company. We offer apparel on most our clients B2B sites and it's the only item we can't do inventory on. Our clients don't want 6 products (one for each size) shown in the category. They want it to be handled via the drop down making inventory per size irrelevant.
I also was just told that if any 1 item is out of stock within the kit, then none of the other items in that kit can be ordered. So if you're out of Small Shirts, sorry, you're unable to order any other size.
We use Inksoft for apparel only sites and have sites on Pressero with both apparel, ASI and print for B2B customers. Pressero is next to imposible to setup for bulk apparel orders and managing multiple inventory SKUs with one product to include size and color of a garment. This is a growing area of our business and also one for most others in the industry. It really is not a wish but a NEED for more advanced capabilities to handle, price and manage apparel and ASI in Pressero.
If you use presswise, you can do what we have done. Set up the sizes as Substrates and create a new Printed Product that is Inventory Pull. You can use a Pricing Calculator and put the sizes in each drop down. When the order comes in it pulls the correct Style/Size shirt from the inventory. You have one product and can still control inventory.
We would also find this useful for a new storefront we are planning
We found this approach to be helpful when displaying apparel.
i JUST put in a request for this exact thing and used the exact term of "clunky"! Ha! Yes, we very much need this as well.
YES YES YES - We need this too, I have tested several ways to do this and there is not one that will allow you to enter a minimum total quantity of different sizes! I have sent suggestion to Support for this feature several times. This is high priority for us!
instead of using kits we use a calculator sheet with all the sizes on it. This doesnt control inventory but is easier to use , I have brought up in the past that they could use the attribute field in the calcualtor sheet to direct back to inventory to control. Currently we use our internal system for inventory tracking on apparel . There are 2 different sheet styles we use , one where they can order mutliple quantities at a time and one with a drop down
Not only are kits for apparel not working well from an inventory qty not showing on the site per size, but also for reporting and shipping. When you pull reports it shows 1 kit, it doesn't itemize what was in the kit. When we ship we cannot select which items shipped, verses which items are backordered. Keeping track of inventory for 100's of different apparel and sizes with what's shipped, what hasn't, reporting, billing etc. has been a huge amount of manual time. We have clients talking about leaving us specifically because of the apparel laking functionality. Really need a new solution fast.
Can aleyent buy Inksoft.com?
Apparel is so much work for my team to setup as well. It is the #1 issue that is driving our new sites to shopify and away from pressero. Inventory of apparel and having to build a kit is not effective. and it doesn't show the inventory for each individual item.
majority of my sites need & want apparel so this is a very real issue for us
This would make orders and setup a lot easier
YES YES YES. We use the same setup for apparel and it's been frustrating for our users to figure out - Especially the kit quantity versus the individual size quantities.
The ability to link different inventories to product options/sizes would be helpful even outside of apparel with color or imprint choices in different promotional items - Say we're offering the same tumbler in 5 different colors.