Magento: Hiding and not counting out of stock in layered navigation

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About: Hiding and not counting out of stock in layered navigation in Magento

Hi, this has boggled us for quite a while. An I did not find a solution. We upgraded to Mage 1.8.1 hoping that it would be fixed.

1. We have 19 shirts (configurable products)
2. that sell in sizes 38, 39, 40 etc
3. some of these shirts are not available in size 38 or 39
4. so when a user clicks on the sizes filter in layered navigation it would show only shirts that have stock in that size

But what happens is

Problem A: the count of products per size is 19 everywhere. But this is not correct, some of the 19 shirts are only available in size 38 or 39

Problem B: When I click to filter on size 38, I would expect to see only shirts on the next page that actually are available in size 38

Now how could we solve this? is this a configuration something that I am missing? Show out o stock products yes/no, in attribute settings? or do I need to change this in the code?

Expected behavior would be: - count only products that actually have a size available - show only products that actually have a size available

a example http://i.snag.gy/kwhO2.jpg

Help appreciated!!

Answer 1

Answer is here I think

https://digicloud.zendesk.com/entries/22144483-Show-hide-out-of-stock-products-in-Magento

I think we were asking for too much ...

1. we wanted to show out of stock products in the overview (but with out of stock notice)
2. and when filtering that it did not count the out-of-stock products

But this is not how it works. It's either on or off

Solution: Setting this to "Show products that are out of stock" to NO seems to solve the issue

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How to hide products on Magento store that are "Out of stock" or have a QTY of 0

Hide out of stock message is a configurable item.

Admin >> System >> Configuration >> Catalog >> Inventory >> Stock Options

Display Out of Stock product -> No

Answer 2

Yes, you can get Magento to do this, by tweaking the product attribute index so that the attribute (e.g. size) value (e.g. 37.5) is not stored against the configurable product if the simple product with that value is out of stock (e.g. size 37.5 is out of stock). By changing this index, the layered navigation will follow suit.

Full answer and code here: https://magento.stackexchange.com/a/154654/13636

Answer 3

You can also show out of stock items with special note, like "Available in 3 days" with ability to subscribe to "back in stock". May be you get some new customers this way.