A minimum purchase quantity is the fewest units of a product that a customer needs to add to the shopping cart before they can check out. It’s set per product and displays on the product details page in the storefront, provided the Wholesale add-on is installed and enabled.
You can set a different minimum for each membership level and for All customers (customers without a membership).
Setting a minimum purchase quantity
You set minimum purchase quantities via Bulk edit — even for a single product.
On X-Cart 5.6.0.18 and later:
Go to Catalog > Inventory (a separate page from Catalog > Products).
Select the checkbox next to the product (or products) you want to configure.
Click Bulk edit selected, then choose Inventory Settings.
The Bulk Edit Inventory Settings page opens.
In the Minimum purchase quantity field, click Click to specify and enter a value for All customers and/or for any membership level you have configured.
Click Save changes.
On X-Cart 5.6.0.17 and earlier:
Go to Catalog > Products.
Select the checkbox next to the product (or products) you want to configure.
Click Bulk edit selected, then choose Inventory.
The Bulk Edit Inventory Settings page opens.
In the Minimum purchase quantity field, click Click to specify and enter a value for All customers and/or for any membership level you have configured.
Click Save changes.
How the minimum purchase quantity works
By default, the minimum purchase quantity is 1 for every customer, regardless of membership. When you change this value, the new limit displays on the storefront’s product details page.
If you change the minimum purchase limit for a particular customer membership, only customers with that membership will see the change.
If a customer adds a product with a changed minimum purchase quantity to the cart directly from a product listing page (the home page, a category page, and so on), the product is added in the amount specified as the minimum purchase quantity for this product.
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