[Support request] Show element only when product is out of stock

[Juan Manuel]

Hello,

My ecommerce has seasonal products and I am trying to give a better experience to users that land on out of stock products. The idea I have in mind is to display a generate block element in products that meet the condition of being out of stock.

Things to consider:
– All my products are variable products, and I manage inventory at product level.
– I use WPML, so I guess i need to create one generate block element per language.
– WPML syncs the stock level across languages, meaning if I set stock to 0 in spanish, it also applies to FR EN and DE, which is awesome and saves us a lot of time.
– I also want to remove the custom woocommerce message of “this product is not available because it is out of stock”. I haven’t been able to do so using the “woocommerce_get_availability_text” filter, the only thing that worked is CSS but i’d rather use a filter if possible.

I also dont want to be updating the element’s visibility conditions each time a product is out of stock or in stock, because that’s A LOT of work, so I came up with the idea of having a custom field in my products that is “Yes” or “No”. If I set it to yes, that would mean product is out of stock. This has 2 advantages: I can set the element visibility based on it the new custom field being yes; and 2, ideally this field could update the stock level, so that when I click yes, it also sets the stock to 0. This way i dont have to update 2 fields (the new custom field and the stock level).

This is as far as I got, but elements doesn’t seem to recognize my custom field:

add_action( 'woocommerce_product_options_general_product_data', 'add_custom_field_options' );

function add_custom_field_options() {
    global $woocommerce, $post;

    echo '<div class="options_group">';

    // Custom field radio buttons
    woocommerce_wp_radio(
        array(
            'id' => 'custom_radio_button',
            'label' => __( 'OUT of season?', 'woocommerce' ),
            'options' => array(
                'yes' => __( 'Yes', 'woocommerce' ),
                'no' => __( 'No', 'woocommerce' ),
            ),
        )
    );

    echo '</div>';
}

add_action( 'woocommerce_process_product_meta', 'save_custom_field_options' );

function save_custom_field_options( $post_id ){
    $product = wc_get_product( $post_id );
    
    // Get custom field radio button value for product
    $custom_radio_button = isset( $_POST['custom_radio_button'] ) ? $_POST['custom_radio_button'] : '';
    
    // Determine stock status based on custom field radio button value
    $stock_status = $custom_radio_button == 'yes' ? 'outofstock' : 'instock';
    
    // Update stock status for product
    $product->set_stock_status( $stock_status );
    $product->save();

    // Loop through variations and update their stock status as well
    if ( $product->is_type( 'variable' ) ) {
        foreach ( $product->get_children() as $variation_id ) {
            $variation = wc_get_product( $variation_id );

            // Update stock status for variation
            $variation->set_stock_status( $stock_status );
            $variation->save();
        }
    }
}

Is this approach correct? Is there a better way to do it? Why can’t i manage elements visibility based on my custom field?

Thank you very much!

[David]

Hi there,

It sounds like a good approach.

For the element, you can use the generate_element_display hook to change the display conditions of a specific element by its ID.
See here for examples:

https://docs.generatepress.com/article/generate_element_display/

[Juan Manuel]

Hi David,

Thanks for your response. I actually read that while researching for my approach, but honestly couldn’t figure out how to make it work in my case. I don’t know how to make the function work based on the value of my custom field. Could you further explain, please?

Thank you.

[Leo]

Did a little Googling an maybe this conditional tag would help?
https://www.businessbloomer.com/woocommerce-conditional-logic-ultimate-php-guide/#comment-454762

If not you might need to check with WooCommerce on the conditional tag that checks if a product is out of stock and just include it in the if statement.

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