Magento Product Management: downloads-inventories...

With Magento, you can offer to sell downloadable items (music, images, videos ...) and manage the inventory of hardware products: tweaks here you are advised to utilize the resources of Magento wisely.

Configuration of products available for download

The status of the product ordered to activate the download must be "charged" and not "pending". This forces the customer to pay before accessing the download. Otherwise the risk is that the product is to thank you for unscrupulous people who indicate they pay you by check, the risk for you, never to receive ... Magento  limit the case with this type of options, but it is still necessary to have known! The maximum number of downloads by default in turn, allows the buyer to recover a number of times the file (useful in case of loss, which is common with virtual products ...).

Magento: Inventory Management

What does this first line setting decrement the stock when the order is confirmed?

Well by selecting" yes ", you warrant that you the user who places an order does have its purchase... Indeed, if this option is not selected, your customers are charged but will not receive their order that within an indefinite period, the time you re approve the stock. Below, "change the status of items in" available "when an order is canceled": it is also important because it resets the article online, where the prospect would be withdrawn.

Should we display products exhausted?

In principle yes, because the customer's information will be very convenient for them, possibly allow them to place an order later. To do this select "yes" then you can customize the message tailored to the type of unavailability of the product so as to provide practical information of the prospect (very good for your image!).

Option products in stock by Magento

On the same principle we recommend to prevent the passage beyond the control stocks: he avoids providing the customer in a timely unknown and often very long. We therefore opted for "not beyond the control of inventories." Knowing that we can refine this setting by telling the user that the product is not in stock (it can then control without worrying about not seeing his package quickly ...).