Module Sort products in-stock first
for PrestaShop 1.6, 1.7
Description
Short Description
Moves unavailable (out-of-stock) products to the end of product lists regardless of sorting: product pages and blocks.
Benefits for the e-merchant
Automation of manual labor.
No need to disable product until it is not available, and then to enable when the product's remains will be appear.
Website promotion and SEO.
It will allow you not to disable products while they are out-o-stock. This is a good practice, since product pages stay available in a search index of search engines and therefore saves free user traffic from the search.
In addition, you could get potential user activity, for example, commenting on products by users on your site or on another site, which may attract new potential customers.
Benefits for the customer
A customer sees always available products for sale in the first place and thereby save his time and nerves to find needed product. The module is especially useful when a store has much products, many of which are often out-of-stock. Thus, the module helps build customer loyalty.
Features
The main feature is moving unavailable (or out-of-stock) products to the end of product lists regardless of sorting: product pages and blocks.
Product availability can be determined in two ways:
- Checking a stock quantity of a product, which is greater than zero.
- Checking "Available for order" option of the product instead of checking of its a stock quantity of a product (the setting is useful, because sometimes selling of products are performing without taking into account of stock quantities).
This feature works for example, in pages: category, manufacturers, suppliers, new products, bestsellers and other pages. It also works on blocks, for example: search result block, block of best sellers and other blocks. With any sorting option, a customer will always see products available for sale, and at the very end of the list, a customer will see products which are out-of-stock.
The additional feature is to sort products with combinations properly when a base price of a product is zero.
You can check your PrestaShop and you will see this problem.
Integration with other modules.
This module can be configured to work with other modules that display product lists. This requires to change a code of a third-party module. This integration is not included to the price of the module, but there is the instruction that should help to do the integration with third-party module. If you can't do an integration yourself, I will help you.
Special cache.
The module has an additional special cache for 4 hours, so the module is slightly slows down the site.
Installation
The module uses PrestaShop class override system to override default behavior. Be sure that the option "Disable all overrides" is switched to NO (Advanced Parameters / Performance). It is the required option for this module.
An integration is required to work with modules for product filtering like: "Layered navigation block" or "Faceted Search" (default modules for PrestaShop), "Advanced Search 4" and may be other complex modules. This integration is not included to the price of the module, but there is the instruction that should help to do the integration with third-party module. In case of problems with an integration, I am always ready to help. If an integration is not configured, then, accordingly, moving products to the end of a list will not work.
Demonstration
Website demo for PrestaShop 1.7
How to check the module on the demo web-shop?
1. Follow the demonstration page. The page contains three products in the end of the product list:
- The cup 1 w/o remains
- The cup 2 w/o remains
- The cup 3 w/o remains
2. Change the sorting option and make sure that the products are still in the end of this list.
Data sheet
- PrestaShop compatibility: 1.6, 1.7
- Installation: normal
- Uses PrestaShop classes override system: yes
- Core modifications: no
- Including documentation: yes
- Version: 1.6.0 (2020-02-18)
- License: Proprietary license without copy-protection
- Product type: Module
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v0.8.0 (2014-05-05) + the first release for PrestaShop 1.5 - 1.6 v0.8.1 (2014-10-20) + fixed a problem that appeared when a catalog of products contains one or more products with ID equal zero. v0.9 (2014-11-05) + added new price sorting feature that allows to sort products with combinations properly when a base price of a product is zero v1.0 (2015-02-22) + sorting algorithm is improved + some code improvements v1.0.1 (2016-02-14) + improved compatibility with PrestaShop 1.6 + removed a property that restricts the module installation on PrestaShop versions out of the predefined range v1.0.2 (2016-11-18) + removing classes cache file (class_index.php) after module has installed v1.1.0 (2018-08-18) + added support PrestaShop 1.7 + removed support PrestaShop 1.5 v1.3.0 (2019-04-13) + the algorithm to get a product remains was improved taking in to account warehouses + the fast algorithm to get products remains was developed (additional special cache enabled for 4 hours: acceleration up to several dozen times with several thousand products) v1.5.0 (2019-06-28) + added a button to reset the cache in the module settings (as well, the cache will be cleared when you click "Clear cache" in the "Performance" page) + the algorithm to get a product remains was improved taking in to account each combination of a product v1.6.0 (2020-02-18) + added a setting to check whether the product option is "Available for sale", instead of checking stock quantities (the setting is useful, because sometimes selling of products are performing without taking into account of stock quantities)