Set up a "Digital" stock location that ideally has infinite stock.

[JDutil]

Best way to handle digital delivery I can think of is to just setup a default Digital stock location. Then if we could figure out the best way to make infinite stock at it we'd be all set.

[petergoldstein]

I'd imagine we'd also want to prevent transfer of physical items into the StockLocation, and transfer of digital items to physical StockLocations.

@JDutil Have you been able to give this matter any thought since you filed the issue?

[JDutil]

No I haven't yet, but I believe in Spree 2.1 a made to order option has been added which would handle infinite stock.

I agree we should validate physical vs digital in the stock locations as well.

[petergoldstein]

@JDutil Great. I'll check out the made to order option.

[davekiss]

I'm resurrecting this in order to get return authorizations working for orders that contain digital products.

Do you think we still need a stock location for this? Or, might there be a way to simply create a shipment without a stock association (i.e. set config.track_inventory_levels = false) by doing some sort of after_transition state machine hook on the order transition to complete?

This issue/commit might be of interest here as well:

spree/spree#5064

[JDutil]

Yea the purpose of the spree/spree#5064 was so that we could have a digital shipment handler that sent out the download link emails or gift voucher codes etc...

You may not need a digital stock location, but you need a digital splitter or something to break the shipments apart properly.