Timed Sale/Event Help

------=_NextPart_000_0022_01C48A73.EAA042A0
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

I am trying to create a timed sale. The way I invision it working is
like this:

Customer comes to the site and there is a banner announcing the timed
event and has a countdown until it starts. So it might say "Only 2 more
days until our midnight madness sale". Each time they come back to the
site the # of days till the sale will be accurate, "Only 1 more day
unitl our midnight madness sale" etc. The banner will link to a page
where there will be one or more items on sale. At a certain time, the
items will be removed from the sale and all will reset for the next
sale. Ideally I would have a database of products that the sale could
choose from to display so there is no human intertvention.

I had thought about making a category called SALE and creating a custom
template for it using the Viking Coders module. Then I could assign
products to the page. But I am not sure how to make the products
disappear after a certain time

Any thoughts on something like this?



------=_NextPart_000_0022_01C48A73.EAA042A0--

Timed Sale/Event Help



David wrote:
> Customer comes to the site and there is a banner announcing the timed
> event and has a countdown until it starts. So it might say "Only 2 more
> days until our midnight madness sale". Each time they come back to the
> site the # of days till the sale will be accurate, "Only 1 more day
> unitl our midnight madness sale" etc. The banner will link to a page
> where there will be one or more items on sale. At a certain time, the
> items will be removed from the sale and all will reset for the next
> sale. Ideally I would have a database of products that the sale could
> choose from to display so there is no human intertvention.

The volume pricing module can do some of this. If you put the product
codes and start / stop dates in a flat file, it can import from that
flat file. When the start date arrives, the sale starts. When the stop
date is reached, the sale ends. You can set the volume discount to
occur if the customer orders only one of the specific item or you can
make that number higher. It does not put the sale products in a
specific category and it does not have a banner advertising the sale
ahead of time with a countdown. Those you would need to do with other
means. For example, there are simple javascript functions that could be
put in the store header for the countdown. I used to have one for the
millennium but don't know what I did with it.

--
Bill Weiland A2Z Emporium Plus <A HREF ="http://www.emporiumplus.com/store.mvc ">http://www.emporiumplus.com/store.mvc </A>
Modules for eCommerce. Mail Mgr, Coupon, PayPal, Froogle/Yahoo feeds
Rate This, Gift/Wish List, Wait List Mgr, EZ Batch, Shipping & more
Online Documentation <A HREF ="http://www.emporiumplus.com/docs">http://www.emporiumplus.com/docs</A>
Question <A HREF ="http://www.emporiumplus.com/mivamodule_wcw.mvc?Screen=SPTS ">http://www.emporiumplus.com/mivamodu...vc?Screen=SPTS </A>
|