PhædrusR
Check out your baskets
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My understanding is that putting it in your basket does nothing to affect inventory or stock allocation, beyond being a metric that X amount of people have an item in their basket.I don't know if anyone knows the answer. But my understanding is that when you're online shopping and put something in your basket, it holds the item for you for at least a couple of minutes. The way Ideal World imply it, someone could snatch it out of your basket
It's only on checkout and paying for the item that the software first checks there is sufficient stock, and on completion of payment process, deducts the item from the stock inventory count.
I say this because on the odd occasion when I have gone to checkout my basket, it is at that point the system checked there was sufficient stock to fulfil the order, and rejected the order saying item no longer available, even though I was aware of multiple items in other baskets.
Basically the basket is a queue of potential purchasers, allocated up to stock limits, but only on checkout does it confirm actual availability and deduct from stock count if the purchase completes.
I'm not sure it even prevents more people putting items in their baskets than items available.
It's like the phone queue, there can be 20 people on the phones but only say 10 items in stock. They can all be in the queue, but it's basically first come first served availability on checkout.