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Would a retail business want the inventory to decrement just because users put items into carts that get abandoned? Seems like that would really mess things up
by dessimus 2mo ago
Would a retail business want the inventory to decrement just because users put items into carts that get abandoned? Seems like that would really mess things up more in the long run.
- derangedHorse 2mo agoAn unconfirmed payment might also refer to a credit card charge that is 99% guaranteed to go through but hasn’t completed yet
- resonious 2mo agoYes. You decrement for a few minutes then release if there's no purchase in time. Airlines figured out how to do this a very long time ago.
- dessimus 2mo agoExcept airlines, literally oversell flights all the time, and the context of my response was to preventing oversale.
- Breza 2mo agoI know this would add complexity, but I wonder if they could train a model to predict the odds of a given cart being abandoned. I'm a data scientist. I bet there are at least a few situations where you could be confident that someone was going to complete a sale.