Create a product with different colors (associated products) where each color shares stock with all other colors

Question

Is it possible to create a product with different colors where each different color points to the same stock?

For example, I have created a configurable product with a color attribute. After creating the configurable product I create a couple of associated simple products for a few different colors. Instead of having each color have it’s own product qty / stock, I want all the colors to share the same stock.

So for example the configurable product is a lamp. The associated simple products are lamp green, lamp red etc. I want to tell Magento that the lamp product has 10 in stock. So when someone buys a lamp red, it will tell me there are only 9 lamps left in stock regardless of the color. Is this possible?

The way I have it now is that each associated simple product has it’s own stock, but this is not what I want in my case.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Answer 1

As Thorsten said You won't be able to achieve this with Magento's current default functionality. However, I have found the solution to this problem using a third-party extension. This extension allows you to link multiple products with one product and they have a shared inventory. for example:- you can create your configurable product with several child products of different colors. Now you can choose any one of the child products as your main product and then link/associate them to other child products. Now all linked products have a shared inventory. So if someone purchases one of the colored products then the stock for all the linked child products will get updated automatically.

You can achieve this using Magento 2 Associated or Linked Product Stock Update

Thank You

Answer 2

I don't think that this is possible out of Magento standard.

You could try to detect a stock change on a child item and then change the stock of all other child items accordingly.

A point to start can be the event cataloginventory_stock_item_save_after.