inventory

We have a multi-store setup with magento operating across multiple domains. Some of these websites are wholesale b2b websites and some are retail b2c websites. We have a different price per retail and wholesale websites (which was easy to do in magento config) we do this as we force wholesale customers to purchase in multiples by using the magento minimum allowed in cart and must be bought in multiples inventory features. However we cannot seem to switch this off for the retail stores. We would also like to allow backorders on wholesale website but not on the retail ones and this setting is

I'm building a ticket-selling application which tracks an inventory of tickets, de-activating them when a particular ticket is sold out. I'm wondering what the best practice is for releasing inventory back into the store when an order is abandoned mid-way through. The current flow: Users add items to an order as line_items and the order is marked as completed on successful payment items has a quantity_available that's updated based on their line_items I sweep periodically for orders with no action in > 20 minutes, delete those orders' line_item s and update the quantity_available It feels like

This is a question not really about "programming" (is not specific to any language or database), but more of design and architecture. It's also a question of the type "What the best way to do X". I hope does no cause to much "religious" controversy. In the past I have developed systems that in one way or another, keep some form of inventory of items (not relevant what items). Some using languages/DB's that do not support transactions. In those cases I opted not to save item quantity on hand in a field in the item record. Instead the quantity on hand is calculated totaling inventory received -

I am making a website that needs to access the Steam inventory of the user. I found an API to get Team Fortress 2 inventory, Dota 2, CS:S, CS:GO and Portal 2. But I didn't find any API for getting Steam inventory. Is it possible to access a user's Steam inventory? New Endpoint There is a new end point for fetching inventories as of December 2016. The old one listed below still works (for now). Both seem to be highly ratelimited. The new inventory path is: http://steamcommunity.com/inventory/<PROFILEID>/440/2?l=english&count=5000 With this new path, l is the language you want to receive data