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Inventory is not useful. You really need available stock, which is inventory + incoming stock movements - outgoing stock movements. This can be expensive to cal
by cromulent 12y ago
Inventory is not useful. You really need available stock, which is inventory + incoming stock movements - outgoing stock movements. This can be expensive to calculate (for a catalog page of 20 items), and stored in a different system to the e-commerce system. So, page load time as a metric may be more important. You might even find they have already tested this and get more sales without it.
- agentargoh 12y agoOn the tech side there's definite things that you could do to get around that and I'd expect some sort of real-time communication would be necessary to track all that stuff, but there are companies that handle that sort of thing pretty cheaply like pusher/pubnub/bashoto. I'd be surprised if they get more sales without it, if they are only showing available stock values when they are below a certain threshold, say ten items.
- cromulent 12y agoYou didn't ask if there was things to do to get around it, or if you would be surprised, you asked if there was a specific reason :) Big companies don't want "pretty cheaply" they want "logistics systems that you don't get fired for purchasing".