Virtual stores can be used to handle all sales that don’t happen in store. You can link a MicroBiz virtual store to a Woo! Web site or you can manually enter phone or other out of store transactions. The important difference with a virtual store is that it has no inventory. Instead it fulfills orders and sales using a different ‘normal’ store with inventory.
Understanding the Fulfillment Store Setting
Your Woo! Web site integration has a setting called Fulfillment Stores.
- The first store on the list is where stock is reduced on a customer order created from a web order. If any stock is committed it comes from this store and the completed sale reduces stock in this store.
- All the stores on the list are used in calculating the stock balance sent to the web site.
Web Order Backorders with available stock in other fulfillment stores
If you only have 1 store then in stock items get committed to fill your web orders. But if you have more than 1 inventory location that fills web orders you must consolidate the stock to the first fulfillment store to complete the order.
Example: Store A has 3 hats and Store B has 2 hats and you get a web order for 4 hats. The MicroBiz order will reduce Store A’s open stock to 0 (zero) and committed stock will be increased by 3. The order line will show 3 committed (in Store A) and 1 backordered. Transfer 1 hat from store B to Store A. Once the transfer is complete open the order and use the Check Backorders button. This will commit the newly transferred stock to the web order so you can complete the order. You’ll now see 4 committed on the order and you can ship and complete.
FastBound Connections
Disposition store will be the fulfillment store.