Ubercart

Hi and welcome to Ubercart!

There's a lot to both Drupal and Ubercart - always something to learn. at least for me ....

1) Yes, with a contributed module. I don't think there's anything you've missed in the settings. Actually, there are a number of contributed module options. The one I used most recently for a client was Ubercart Stock Manager With Attributes - http://drupal.org/project/uc_multi_stock. There are links to some others on that page or you can look through the Contributions section here.

2) Yes. This is one of the things handled through Conditional Actions under Store Administration. You should see "E-mail admin checkout notification" listed there that you can modify. For this one, the actual text of the email needs to be modified elsewhere (but that's not always the case) as it pulls from a template. But its still good to know where this. The templates are under uc_order/templates in the ubercart module folder. You can modify the admin template, but I would suggest leaving that as it is, make a copy of it, edit that, and then save/upload it with a different name. Then, under Conditional Actions you can select your custom admin template to be used instead.

3) I hear you. It can be annoying sometimes, although I am generally grateful so much attention is paid to security. This tends to "go in spurts" in my opinion. Lately, it does seem like there have been quite a few and frequently. Some of the major, heavily used contributed modules have gone through a few releases in a short period of time. It depends on what you're using, but I would say its likely been more frequent than average for a number of weeks now.

You asked a few different questions. So in regards to whether its necessary ... well, most of the time, no, its not technically necessary in the truest sense of "necessary". Generally, ignoring an update isn't going to mean your site just stops. BUT .... the security updates in particular are important. With security and non-security updates, you can see the notes for the release to get an idea the reason for the update, what's included, etc. Some contributed modules will have more notes than others. I do think it's better to not ignore the security updates. And these are less frequent than general updates. If you're using any development / snapshot releases, those will tend to have more updates. Ones that are going through beta releases / releases candidates are probably somewhere in the middle. It depends on the module and the project maintainer.

As far as the warnings, the two simples things you can do that come to mind at the moment is either to hide it with some CSS or uninstall the Updates module. It is completely optional - although a good option, I think. If you do the latter you would need to check manually. CSS would only hide warnings.

"Is it possible to make it so that you cannot Add to Cart (or purchase) more stock than is currently listed in inventory? - It's a liquidation store."

Try uc product minmax for 6.x. This can be set to allow for the purchase of only one item. Then use a conditional action to unpublish the sold item. i.e. when stock = 0.

The nice part of minmax is that if a person changes the qty in the cart and then they try to order, the cart will display a warning message and deactivate the the cart button. Stating that only one of that product is available. If the qty is changed back to one, then that product can be processed.

Just so you know, Multi Stock seems to have done the job - a pop-up now displays if you try to add more stock to the cart than is available.

As for the email template, I went in and had a look at the templates folder, and I found the easiest way (despite other tutorials saying otherwise) was to copy and modify the 'customer' template - as that displays the stock ordered, total, and customer details anyway. So that also worked great!

I also looked into Drush, and it seems it's pretty powerful in being able to update modules and such, I'm probably just a little wary in doing anything command-line at the moment whilst I'm not super-familiar with Drupal. Good points about the necessity of updates, I guess more what I don't like is the time involved and the possibility of things going very wrong.

Thanks very much for the warm welcome, I'm definitely having a love affair with Drupal/UC at the moment - and I'll try and return the favour to this community wherever I can. Hopefully no other big issues till it's done!

Thanks again for your help guys, I'm wondering if you'd be able to help once more...  A few things I'm having trouble with:

1. My store is invite-only, meaning the general public cannot see it unless they receive a unique code and are invited to register. So I had to some funky stuff on the landing page. It seems now that when you login, it initially says lands on the home page with 'Access Denied' but once you try again it works. Always the second time. I'll provide details for you to login below to see what I mean.
2. I've setup a Conditional Action when a shipment is created that updates the order status and emails the customer. For the email, I looked through all of the Order/Global Replacement Values but couldn't find any relating to the Shipment (I.e. Inputting date sent, estimated arrival, tracking number etc). Would anyone know how?
3. The store generally seems slow. I'm with HostGator and they've assured me they've done all they can to speed it up, but admin pages timeout often when editing things, and some users complained of the inability to register because of timeouts. Is Drupal just that script intensive?

Store: https://store.dermasolutions.com.auUser: TestAccountPw: pass1234Again thanks sooo much for any help, I'm going to repay this community with my soon-to-be l33t skillz soon