Hide delivery choice based on date & time

[MattSMR]

Afternoon lovely people.

Very quick question - Is it possible to hide/omit a delivery choice based on the day of week and time of day?

The question comes from a member of our sales team, after a customer placed an order for Saturday delivery, after 3PM on a Friday - meaning our team were unable to offer this service.

I'm aware that it's possible to filter out options using JS/jQuery, just wondering if it's possible to filter based on a date/time criteria.

Many thanks in advance

Matt - SMR Bathrooms

[guccij]

We explicitly say as the shipping option for Saturday delivery, "Saturday by 1pm order by 3pm Fri" with similar for next working day by 9am. We also have a link to the Shipping page at the checkout.

[Mike Hughes]

Sure. That shouldn't be too hard. You can use JavaScript to test if after 3.00pm on Friday OR Saturday then hide the Saturday delivery option (or maybe add "After 3pm Friday - Now Saturday <next Saturday date>" to the Saturday delivery option description.)

[NormanRouxel]

This will operate on Checkout Page 1 and remove any shipping options with "Saturday" in their description if it's after 3pm on a Friday.

Add to bottom of layout Standard JavaScript Header Functions

<actinic:block if="%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22PageType%22%20%2f%3e%20%3d%3d%20%27Checkout%20Page%201%27" >
    <script type="text/javascript">
        $(document).ready(function(){
            var now = new Date();
            var nowDayofWeek = now.getDay();
            var nowHour = now.getHours();
            if ( (nowDayofWeek == 5) && (nowHour >= 15) )
                {
                $( "select[name='ShippingClass'] option:contains('Saturday')" ).remove();
                }
        });
    </script>
</actinic:block>

N.b. Untested!

[Mike Hughes]

Sometimes I look at some of Norman's coding and find it just as striking as looking at a beautiful picture.

I can't decide if this makes me odd or just someone who recognises the elegance in his coding versus my own attempts.

[guccij]

This will operate on Checkout Page 1 and remove any shipping options with "Saturday" in their description if it's after 3pm on a Friday

That's marvellous NOrman. Thank you. Will test.

[guccij]

OK so Norman's code works well, and I've tested it fully. What is the opposite word for "remove" in case at a later point in that day, say at 9pm, I wanted to reinstate a shipping option?
$( "select[name='ShippingClass'] option:contains('Saturday')" ).remove();

[Mike Hughes]

In thar case I would just change the IF condition so that later in the day (for example) the remove option is no longer triggered.

[NormanRouxel]

Remove "Saturday" if between 3pm and 9pm:

             if ( (nowDayofWeek == 5) && (nowHour >= 15) && (nowHour < 21) )

[guccij]

Many thanks, Norman.

[MattSMR]

Norman, you're a superstar - yet to test it but I can see the logic and code behind this working wonderfully

Many thanks

Matt.