Stock Level in Variations
Can we please have the ability to include stock levels in variations. We can include variations in price, but not the number of items available in each variation. Consequently if a particular item is sold out, it doesn’t reflect that in the listing.

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EmBrace Leather commented
I'm new to Folksy and coming from Etsy. For the most part your service looks great but honestly I dont know if I can make a go of things here if we can't do something as basic as stock levels.
We regularly sell out of our small deck boxes in a single day but rarly the double or tripple size. Right now I would either have to disapoint people by making the whole listing out of stock if we sold just the singles or I would have to risk having to refund orders because your service allows them to oversell if I put the true number of boxes I sell.
Please look at this, its going to require us to contrantly faf with items going in and out of stock in its current form. Ideally you would set this on a toggle so you can shoose to use variation stock or not however I would argue that variations having their own stock should be default.
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Sarah commented
I remember thinking that this would be a great addition to the variations feature a while back, before taking a break from the platform. I've now re-opened my Folksy shop, but still there is no option to include quantity numbers at an individual variation level. This would be such a useful feature from a usability point of view. As a working example, I need to list pairs of mismatched earrings, where every individually handcrafted pair differs to another... at the moment I have only one option for listing these, and that's to add all pairs as separate listings - this is a nightmare from a seller's admin point of view, and only makes for a cluttered and confusing shop front for any perspective buyers.
Lovely Folksy bods, I know you're a small team but please can you consider placing Brenda's suggestion from 2019 under review for development? I really do think it will make the Folksy platform a far more appealing place for sellers and buyers (and will mirror what other shop platforms can offer). Many thanks :-)
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Jolly Dee commented
Please allow us to add quantity/stock levels in variations! I want to be able to offer discounts for buying more than one pair of earrings or plant markers, but can only do this if I can for example say 3 available for the pink version, 2 orange available etc etc. Or it then may say pink - out of stock.
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Janet Williamson commented
If I have 8 variations in a listing but only one of each, am I right to put 8 in Quantity ? I do try to explain this in the description and I would have to remove any item sold,manually, right away. Or is there another way? Jan
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Rebecca Matzen commented
yes, please. I have multiple variations all with different stock levels.
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Jacqui Futers commented
Yes, yes please I had thia problem yesterday where 3 customers ordered the same item... But there was only 1. Looks so unprofessional to have email them and apologise that the item had already sold,
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Sasha commented
Yes please, definitely agree with this! I was so happy when Folksy brought in the ability to add variations to a listing...however, that joy was short lived when I realised I couldn't actually say how many of each variation I have. So if someone wanted more of one variation, I have to hope I have them in stock, or that the customer has read the description properly. Then when one is out of stock I have to write '(out of stock)' next to the variation and hope they don't click to buy it.
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Anonymous commented
We need to attach stock levels to variations so that we can provide our full inventory level to buyers. Otherwise we have to list only the amount of our lowest quantity variation to avoid overselling, even if we have higher quantities of other variations available.
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Helen Hunter commented
Agree absolutely - stock levels vary for each variation and it should also reflect sold out items. Otherwise, as someone else mentions, we're back to listing each colourway as a separate listing which is extremely time consuming for sellers and makes for a terrible customer experience.
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Fiona commented
Absolutely we need to be able to add stock levels for each variations. Otherwise I am having to upload each item individually its very time consuming
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Nic commented
Yes please Folksy, I'm struggling without this option
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[Deleted User] commented
This would be incredibly useful - please, folksy, can you implement this?