Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Set Default Quantity to 1 in Magento

By default, the quantity box on the product page is always blank and that is not very user friendly. It would be great if the box would be set to "1" by default .

Now this can be done without any programming - only through configuration changes in the backend as follows:


  1. Go to Admin Panel -> System -> Configuration -> Inventory-> Product Stock Options from the Menu
  2. Click on Add Minimum Qty button (next to Minimum Qty Allowed in Shopping Cart option)
  3. Choose Customer Group: ALL GROUPS as you want this to be applied to all users
  4. Enter 1 for Minimum Qty
  5. Save Config

Abracadabra! The work is done - now products page quantity box is defaulted to 1.

10 comments:

  1. KrešoMarch 20, 2011 at 12:55 AM

    Thanks for this, very good solution! I would be messing around with javascript to add "1" somehow or by templates.. but this was fast :)

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  2. Darshan ShahApril 5, 2011 at 11:05 AM

    Yep - I prefer doing such changes through configuration rather than through code which could possible break with the next update!

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  3. AnonymousNovember 23, 2011 at 3:56 PM

    I get a strange "bug/feature" after enabling this -> if simple products inside configurable product have stock = 1 or 0, than the whole configurable product becomes "out of stock"! Any ideas? Tenks

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  4. AnonymousMarch 31, 2012 at 2:12 PM

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  5. AnonymousMay 10, 2012 at 5:05 AM

    Thanks a lot......:)

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  6. AnonymousAugust 31, 2012 at 2:09 PM

    This worked great, but found a bug in magento 1.7 i had to actually create the rule twice, because it would always delete the first one.

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  7. AnonymousApril 3, 2013 at 3:45 PM

    I've created the minimum quantity of 1 in the default config but it doesn't show up in any of my other stores and the option isn't available to them in their configs. Any ideas?

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  8. AnonymousOctober 17, 2014 at 9:36 AM

    I also found I had to Add Minimum Qty rule twice in Magento 1.8 in order for it to save. Then it worked like a charm!

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  9. AndieJanuary 26, 2016 at 3:00 AM

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  10. Tori RAugust 5, 2022 at 6:32 AM

    This was lovely, thanks for writing this

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