If you have a multi-store Cloud POS group and you are running a Citrus-Lime e-commerce site where Click & Collect is available, you can dictate whether stock is available for collection, depending on the location of the stock.
For example, let's say your Cloud POS group contains Store A and Store B. You may want to restrict Click & Collect so that items which are only in stock at Store A cannot be ordered for collection at Store B, and vice versa. This removes the need to physically transfer stock between stores in order to fulfil Click & Collect orders.
A scenario:
- Item in local stock at Store A, but out of stock at Store B - Item only available for collection from Store A;
- Item out of stock at Store A, but in local stock at Store B - Item only available for collection from Store B;
- Item in local stock at Store A and Store B - Item available for collection from Store A and Store B.
This is a global setting and is controlled within Cloud MT. It can be found from the main menu, by navigating to Site Management then General Fields.
https://cloudmt.citruslime.com/#/general
Scroll down the page to the section entitled Click & Collect. Here you will see two tick boxes.
With Block All Remote Locations selected, stock is only available to collect from a store if that store already has the stock available. No stock will be available for transfer from other stores and no SIM stock will be available for Click & Collect.
On the right of the screen, there is a tick box available to Block SIM Warehouses. With this option selected, you are permitting inter-store transfer of stock within your business, but you are preventing SIM stock from being available for Click & Collect.
Note that you cannot select both options at once. You can either choose to block all remote stock locations for Click & Collect (i.e. other store stock and SIM stock), or block just the SIM stock.