We've begun moving items to offline inventory as they might not be OK to display on the website - returns, open boxes, etc. Stuff we have no problem selling in store but haven't had the ability to create separate items for yet (see QBP example pic) and we still need to figure out how to put a UPC on it.
In moving these to offline we now aren't able to see what we have in inventory that we are OK with selling in person. Floor models also pose an issue.
Example - for larger items like auto racks we wouldn't want to disassemble and re-box a floor model for a web sale. We have no problem selling an item that hasn't been unboxed. We would of course sell the fully assembled floor model in store but need to know that it is in inventory.
Perhaps 2 categories of offline inventory could be made - available for sale and do not sell?