Setting listing quantity to zero or setting listing to state "sold_out" via API

[Eric Hoxworth]

What are the steps for setting a listing quantity to zero or setting listing to state "sold_out" via API?

Attempts to set listing quantity to zero yield the following error message:

quantity cannot be empty., quantity cannot be less than 1.

Attempts to set the listing state to "sold_out" yield the following error message:

Invalid value for enum(active, inactive, draft).

If a item corresponding to a listing is sold-out outside of Etsy, there does not appear to be a way to update Etsy via the API to indicate the listing is sold out.

[david olick]

I would assume having a state of sold_out would mean that it has been sold on Etsy, which would require purchasing/transaction info to be generated.  The most we can do is set it to inactive.

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[Eric Hoxworth]

That's understandable - sold_out only being an Etsy concept.  

How would you set an item quantity to zero?  This seems like a pretty common situation where an Etsy user might sell an item at a farmers market or show and then want that item quantity to be automatically set to zero so they don't sell the same item from their Etsy store.

[Matt Graham]

Hi Eric,

On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 6:42 PM, Eric Hoxworth <er...@nahnay.com> wrote:

That's understandable - sold_out only being an Etsy concept.  

How would you set an item quantity to zero?  This seems like a pretty common situation where an Etsy user might sell an item at a farmers market or show and then want that item quantity to be automatically set to zero so they don't sell the same item from their Etsy store.

At this point, I don't believe we support quantity = 0. You can set a listing quantity=0 via the web UI either.

I think your only 2 options at present are to mark the listing inactive or to delete it outright. I don't think there's any recovery of deleted listings, so this may not be a suitable option.

If neither of those work for you and you still want to set quantity = 0, can you make a ticket for it? Since this is not a current feature of the site overall, I'm not sure where we might have built in expectations that quantity will be > 0, so it's not clearly something that we can just add and not worry about it.

Thanks,

Matt