I have a Miva 5.5 client who will be having a baseball ticket sale shortly where they are likely to have several hundred people hitting their site at exactly the same moment - 9am sharp - when the sale begins and we activate online ordering.
There is only one Miva product that we'll be selling. That product has two attributes - game date and departure point. The game date attribute will be inventory controlled. I have the Restock Shelves module installed and my plan, pending your advice, is to set the store basket timeout to 5 minutes, with a note to that effect to visitors. I also plan to set the Restock Shelves module to "Run restock every 5 minutes."
Certain of these games are in HUGE demand. At the same moment, a couple hundred people could easily be trying to order a date where we have only 35 tickets available. And in years gone-by when we ran Miva 4.24, those games always oversold, despite having inventory control enabled.
My questions is whether you think my plan outlined above will be sufficient to prevent overselling. And if not, what other steps would you recommend I take so that I can prevent overselling.
Many thanks for your input.
Scott
There is only one Miva product that we'll be selling. That product has two attributes - game date and departure point. The game date attribute will be inventory controlled. I have the Restock Shelves module installed and my plan, pending your advice, is to set the store basket timeout to 5 minutes, with a note to that effect to visitors. I also plan to set the Restock Shelves module to "Run restock every 5 minutes."
Certain of these games are in HUGE demand. At the same moment, a couple hundred people could easily be trying to order a date where we have only 35 tickets available. And in years gone-by when we ran Miva 4.24, those games always oversold, despite having inventory control enabled.
My questions is whether you think my plan outlined above will be sufficient to prevent overselling. And if not, what other steps would you recommend I take so that I can prevent overselling.
Many thanks for your input.
Scott
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