My store is counting some "invisible" sales

[anotherbreed]

Hi,

I noticed the Sales Count is strangely raised to “6” for a few items I added last week (my store has got 100 items in total and was opened two months ago starting with 90) but I didn’t received any notification from the store or PayPal. I also don’t see any new customer and sale in the stats screen.

All the other items counter is 0.

This is really strange. What could be happened?

[amin007]

When you created this items did you use the “Copy Products Details” feature to copy another product which had 6 sales count?

Are you offering this product for free via the “Squeeze Page” option?

How to Make a Squeeze Page Using the WordPress eStore Plugin

Do you have a “Download Now” button lying around somewhere on a page for this item that you forgot about?

[anotherbreed]

Hi Amin,

yes, I did use the “Copy Product Details” feature on some items that have been sold before. I actually didn’t realized I was copying the sales number as well, good to know.

Thank you.

[amin007]

Yep, the copy product details feature gives you an exact clone of the product you are copying so you need to change the details you want after your copy it.

[Paul]

I seem to recall having to set the Category as it hadn’t copied, but it was a while back….

[kimpomares]

So, how does one remove the “duplicate sales” from the new item created by copying another item?

[admin]

The inventory count for a product is different than duplicate sales. Duplicate sales would mean that you have double sales record for the same product. I don’t see how you get duplicate sales from copying a product. So my question is, what do you really mean by duplicate sales in your case?

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