[ic] academic discussion about inventory under high checkout concurrency

[interchange-users@icdevgroup.org (Jeff Dafoe)]

> you should do inventory on IC at all, other than as an advisory...as I
> have said many times, IC is not an accounting system and doesn't pretend
> to be.

    Accounting is one thing, but I don't agree that IC shouldn't do
inventory.  I wouldn't want customers trying to buy out of stock items
because, for my personal store, I don't have any way to get more of the same
item.  I utilize functionality based on some pieces of code you posted into
the list that removes variants if their associated inventory level is zero
(item-options inventory="inventory:quantity") and I remove the "buy it"
button if the inventory level of all variants is zero.

> Any automatic inventory features have been put in by popular demand
> and with me kicking and screaming....I have never pretended that they
> were bulletproof.

    I think you have done a fine job with the inventory implementation that
is currently present in IC and, at least for me, the inventory functionality
is one of the major selling points.


Jeff