Seasonal product control

[RuralWeb]

I have several sites that have products that are available only at certain times of the year eg wild game, plants at the moment these have to be shown as out of stock when not in season and controlled manually.

What would be nice is a tab in the product which can be used to enter an available to and from date. This would then automatically remove and add the product availability depending on the dates set. Also a message such as "Out of season - next available ....." could be shown which will help customers rather than the out of stock one.

[cdicken]

Hi Malcolm - I think it might be possible to do this with user-definable variables. One of the 'Type' options for variables is 'Date' so you could set a value for 'Available From' for each product, and also a value for 'Available To' and then put a condition in the product list layout that only included products that were available at the time. I guess the only thing missing here is a variable value for 'today's date' - I wonder if it's possible to get that from a PHP expression?

[plantsforshade]

It would be a huge help for me. Add my vote please.

[NormanRouxel]

I wonder if it's possible to get that from a PHP expression

You can use PHP functions within a Condition. E.g.

date("F") == "January"

[party_pete]

Add my vote!

This would save hours of site maintenance for me!

[george]

Sales of yellow stick-it pads would plummet!

[TraceyHand]

Sales of yellow stick-it pads would plummet!

well boo hoo for Mr PostIt. He's probably rich enough anyway

[leehack]

Sales of snow would go through the roof!