"Unable to add item" and "that item is not available" error for no reason

On one of our purchasing pages, all of the items are giving the following pop up error message:

"Unable to add item" and "that item is not available"

The inventory on all items is unlimited. No one can add the items to cart. Need fixed ASAP.

I'm having the same problem.

Same here! Haven't changed anything in months and the error just started on its' own. Losing potential orders :((

One of my clients is running into this issue with a few of his products. Has anyone else found a solution?

Same things was happening to me, but I resolved it:

The store/shop page the products are linked to what disabled. Once I enabled that page, the products could be added to cart and purchased. 

It happens if the Products page is disabled. 

My products page is published and enabled. The products are public and published. The error keeps popping up when we click add to cart it says "product not available" on an unlimited inventory, published, available product on an enabled page? HELP

On 9/17/2019 at 6:37 AM, kevinlh said:

I'm having the same problem.

How did you fix it?

On 9/17/2019 at 8:16 AM, Jo_SQSP said:

Squarespace recently fixed a bug where products on disabled Products Pages could be added to the cart – previously, if you had a product on a disabled Products Page shared elsewhere on your site (in a Product Block or Summary Block, or linked directly to the URL), the product could be purchased. If you're noticing products can no longer be purchased, double-check that the Products Page is enabled (you can move it to your Not Linked Pages to keep it from appearing in your navigation.

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How do I fix this?

Everything is enabled, published and public...with unlimited inventory

34 minutes ago, martinnethercutt said:

How do I fix this?

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It is doing this to me as well. The product page is enabled. https://www.thebusinessofplay.com/octobercamp2023

2 minutes ago, paigewilliams said:

It is doing this to me as well. The product page is enabled. https://www.thebusinessofplay.com/octobercamp2023

On 5/10/2023 at 6:01 AM, paigewilliams said:

It is doing this to me as well.

What is happening here is technically when you add an item to your cart, it has not yet been taken out of stock levels. That happens when you checkout.

The dialog is reporting the actual stock level. It doesn't take into account what is in your cart or others.

SS and others use a first come first serve system, whoever checks out first gets the 1 item in stock. Someone who comes a second later vaing for that same one item gets an error message.

Now from an end user perspective I understand that it is a bit confusing. From a technical perspective I don't see a sensible way to handle items that are in people's carts that have not been removed from stock and communicate that sensibly across multiple user experiences. Imagine what would happen if a user put an item in their cart and that caused a reserve situation and then that user walked away for a week. In the meantime you have a user who has hot cash ready to spend on your product now but they get the out of stock message because another user has an item reserved. It would be madness and you lost a sure sale.

I'm having the same issue. Product is public. Commerce back end set up.  @creedon

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16 hours ago, lisabrouwer said:

I'm having the same issue.

I know nothing of your business but it appears to me as though in your scenario you have a site with a number of rooms available. Each room is unique so your stock level is one for each room. Once the room is purchased, the stock level goes to zero so no one else can double book the room. Once that guest has arrived, stayed, and left, you can set the stock level back to one, so that the next visitor can book the room.

Since SS has no reservation system built-in that is about as close as you can get to something sensible when treating a room like a product from a store in the context of SS system.

I was able to put the Private Queen Suite into my cart with no issue. When I tried to put the same suite into my cart again, I got the unable to add message.

This makes sense as the suite is already in my cart.

Is the item you are trying to add already in your cart? If so, remove it, and you can add it again.

I just put the bunk room in my cart as well, no issues.

If there is a specific product you are having issues with? Please post the URL for that product.

I don't list my services anywhere until I finish a build.  Now my final page wont allow items to be added, or at least not when I try it.  https://www.cabanadigitals.com/paymentpage-final. 

I was able to add the $900 product. I was unable to add extras as you have Express checkout turned on. Turn it off.

Express checkout is designed for one item purchase only situations.

Let us know how it goes.

We are also having this problem. The stock number is set to infinity, the product is enabled. The products were added to a page with the product module in the page editor - there are no disabled store pages that have those products.  I just disable express checkout, (which we had wanted to use for service products) and disabling that didn't help.

Why can we not add physical products to cart or checkout?

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2 hours ago, Elaine4for4 said:

The stock number is set to infinity, the product is enabled. Why can we not add physical products to cart or checkout?

I recommend that you contact Squarespace Customer Care for assistance. They will be able to access the site inventory and investigate this for you. The forum community do not have the necessary access.

Do post back when you solve it. The answer may help others 🙂.

We experienced this today. Products were active and had (infinite) stock.

The problem was the STORE page had been disabled. Fortunately, we quickly released the knock-on effect..

When we enabled the STORE page, the products were purchasable again.