New Post: Products on Stock: Are there other ways to show the availability?

Yes, this feature is present in the module, but not present in the templates, so you have to do the HMTL and CSS yourself.

Each product model has a stock and a max-stock field. Use the max-stock field to hold the original quantity of the model available. The stock field will decrease as the item is sold.

Then use whatever you want from the following tokens to create your stock display in the list/details template:

[TAG:STOCKPERCENT] - Displays the percentage of stock left, based on the Max Stock amount.
[TAG:STOCKPERCENTACTUAL] - Displays the percentage of stock left, based on the Max Stock amount without taking into account stock locked on the cart.
[TAG:STOCKPERCENTINPROCESS] - Display percentage of Stock in cart.
[TAG:STOCKPERCENTSOLD] - Display percentage of Stock Sold.

Stock left plus stock sold equals 100%... so you can get tricky and make a little two celled table with the tokens used to set the width of each cell in percent. Colour the stock left cell in green and the stock sold cell in red. As stock is sold, the table will turn from green to red. Display the table as a little bar with a specific overall width.

Or come up with something else... eg just display the number.
Regards
ROb