Within the following ZenCart examples we’ll be describing product Attribute levels and how best to manage them.
We will start from the basics and build upon these.

The product examples we are going to work with are Clothing (something we should all be wearing

Category: Clothing
Sub Category: Jeans
Product A1: Jeans Blue Small – Stock: 10
Product A2: Jeans Blue Medium – Stock: 8
Product A3: Jeans Blue Larger – Stock: 5

Single Products with single Stock level
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If your store is holding single products then out of the box ZenCart very much catters for your requirements

Within ZenCart Category/products each product will be added individually and within a products details you can simple enter and manage the STOCK quantity

Advantages:
- Simple to manage
- Full description of each individual product can be added
- Stock levels are managed for that product

Disadvantages
- Multiple entries for the same product to cater for each attribute
- Each product needs to be edited to enable a stock quantity change

JSWeb SUGGESTION: Installation of the “admin_product_quantity_changer module”

This module enhances your Zen Cart admin allowing you to make product quantity changes WITHOUT having to edit each and every product individually. This is a much faster approach to keeping your product stock up to date

This is how your ZenCart Store side would generally look like:

Products with Attributes (multiple stock) levels
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Rather than adding each product indivudally with their own stock level, a more streamline way (for you as store owner and your customers who are looking for products) is to have just one main product and within that product provide attribute selection. Here is an example:

Category: Clothing
Sub Category: Jeans Blue
Product A1: Jeans
Attribute: Size: Small – Stock: 10
Attribute: Size: Medium – Stock: 8
Attribute: Size: Large – Stock: 5
Total Stock: 23

Note: A great explanations of how to add product attributes is available on the www.zen-cart.com website within [Tutorials/FAQ).

On your store front end this would look at follows:

Product listing page:

Product Details page:

The next question is how best to manage the STOCK QUANTITIES of each of these attributes?

JSWEB SUGGESTION: Installation of the “Stock by Attributes” module.
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This add-on allows a store owner to set a stock value for each variant of a product. Let’s see this in action:

The result is your product and its attributes stock level being up to date. Now that is quick and easy!

If this is of interest to you then you can order this module at http://www.jsweb.co.uk/stock-by-attributes-p-279.html

Want more?
How about using attributes to build your product prices?
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This new Dynamic Attribute Pricing module will allow you to dynamically show prices of your products based on attributes selections! This will keep your customer informed before they hit the ADD TO CART button

Read more about this module at http://www.jsweb.co.uk/dynamic-attribute-pricing-p-367.html