imagophilos

First of all, thank you for the reply. I really appreciate that there is an actual reaction. You have to understand: reviews like mine come after installing, setting, tweaking and trying to get things to work – Meaning that there is a considerable time investment. Meaning time lost. That generates frustration and anger and more time needed to reset things.

Let me also respectfully contradict you: I strongly believe, that in today’s “Just in Time” logistics philosophy the vast majority of ecommerce shops have a significant amount of products in a backorder status, a status that is relative, as those products will be possibly dropshipped or are in a remote storage without real time updates or are manufactured on demand. In all of these cases, there is only a marginal chance that the store owner would be able to set a fixed “availability date”. Setting that date manually for 100s or 1000s of products is utopic anyway.

That the plugin strictly complies with the “rules” is certainly correct, no argument here. Doesn’t make it more usable for above scenarios.

As for the link you provided, maybe I’m not up to the needed level of understanding, but I could not find any hint about how to bulk edit or map the “availability_date”. You only allow for attribute mapping, as far as I saw, and stock status is not an attribute. I also searched the forums and indeed found some responses with snippets – none worked. If there is a paragraph on that page, that will point me to the right solution, I’ll switch it to 5 stars immediately 😉

Please do not get me wrong: the plugin has a good feel, does connect flawlessly to the merchant center and communication and sync are working instantly – but having half of our products just deleted from Merchant Centre and no way to address that through a probably simple mapping, that is what fully wrecks the experience.

Thank you so much for looking into this. I will try the adjustment and be back with an answer.