Limit quantities at the product level not the variant level

Hi all,

I'll soon be opening up preorders for my first jacket. The overall quantity will be limited to 300 units but this could be spread out across any number of either Small, Medium, Large, XL or XXL. I won't know until I open up preorders to the public.

In an ideal world, I would set 300 as an overall quantity and as the orders get placed in each size, Squarespace would remove them from this number. As far as I can tell, I can only limit the inventory at the variant level. I need the variant inventory to be flexible but the overall inventory for the product to be fixed.

Does that make sense? I have a feeling this won't be possible in Squarespace but I'm struggling to figure out the right search terms to see if it's possible on any other platform.

Many thanks!

Mark

1 hour ago, markjwarman said:

The overall quantity will be limited to 300 units but this could be spread out across any number of either Small, Medium, Large, XL or XXL. In an ideal world, I would set 300 as an overall quantity and as the orders get placed in each size, Squarespace would remove them from this number. 

Squarespace wasn't built to do this but there are a couple of workarounds.

• You can use the Trunk Inventory extension (additional monthly cost) to link the different variants so they add up to 300. 
• You could use a Custom Product Form to prompt for the size instead of variants. The downside is that customers would only be prompted for the size after clicking Add to Cart.

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Thanks for the speedy reply Paul. I'd seen you mention Trunk on another post and had a quick look. I couldn't immediately see that it would be the answer for this specific situation but I'll sign up to a trial now and give it a shot. If all works out, I'll update this post.

Thanks again!
Mark