Online Availability for Shared Items Across Locations

[Loblolly]

It would be helpful to customize the online availability of shared items per location instead of having to mark out of stock if we don't want to offer it online at a specific location.

For example, I have shared items across locations, but only want to offer a few of those online for one location. Since these items are also available online at other locations, I cannot simply hide them or make them unavailable. I want to hide them online at a specific location without having to mark them out of stock and still have them populate for the location online. 

Can each item have a "location" toggle for online under "Where It's Sold"?

[MayaP]

Hi @Loblolly, thanks for sharing your feedback on the online availability of shared items. I think you’re raising valid concerns, and I’m going to tag a few sellers who may be able to share their insight: @bonny @BrianaJo @Bronze_Palms @cupzcoffeeaz @dasap1234 @DinaLRosenberg @Donnie-M 

Let me know if there’s anything else I can help with.

[Donnie-M]

@Loblolly Do you use 1 website for all of your locations?  or do you have different websites?  I think you can solve this with the categories (only certain categories show up on certain pages).  In theory you could do separate pages on 1 website with a landing page where you pick location and it takes you to that locations categories.  Otherwise each website for me is like a sales channel.

But you can code each item to each location, if it is about selling it online vs. in store that can make it a little more complicated.

[bonny]

@Loblolly I'm just brainstorming here because I haven't yet figured out a workaround to a similar issue.  One could could set up different pages for different audiences, but I can see a potential for them to accidentally be discovered.  You know, Google searches and all - they get into everything that isn't nailed down. I suppose one could password-protect each location page to control who accesses it, but it's mightily inconvenient for customers.  

Setting up different websites would require maintaining additional domain names, which would get spendy after a while and ungainly to manage because basically it's manual management of inventory doing it that way.  

I'll give this some more thought and come back to this if a better method occurs to me.  

Bonny Wagoner - Artist/Illustrator