The functionality gave ability to put on hold necessary product items without actual
changing stock record values.
Product stock level was then calculated as number of available items in stock minus items "on hold".
Staff users also could remove item from holding and put it back to the stock.
We implemented "sale" functionality, which is actually in-store purchase, submitted by the staff user through the dashboard. Thus, we replicated and re-integrated basket and checkout functionality to the dashboard. This functionality allowed to add any product to the sale from the dashboard products list page. If product had variants — it allowed to select necessary child product in order to add to the active sale.
When sales manager needed to switch between active orders and put together another one, system allowed to
create a new active sale and put other ones on hold.
Also admin user could switch to another sale through the dropdown in the dashboard navigation.
On the dashboard sale preview page sales manager was able to quickly add products to the sale by start typing product title or UPC into the search autocomplete field.
Customer selection was put to the sale preview page as well — staff member could search it by first name, last name or an email.
