Module Sort products in-stock first

for PrestaShop 1.6, 1.7

Description

Short Description

Moves 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 out-of-stock products to the end of product lists regardless of sorting: product pages and blocks.

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.

 The module has additional special cache enabled for 4 hours, so it slows down a site a very little.

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, 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.

Demonstration

Website demo (v1.1.0).

How to check the module on the demo web-shop?

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

Discussion

Forum.

Data sheet

• PrestaShop compatibility: 1.6, 1.7
• Installation: normal
• Uses PrestaShop classes override system: yes
• Core modifications: no
• Including documentation: yes
• Version: 1.5.0 (2019-06-28)
• License: Proprietary license without copy-protection
• Product type: Module