Quick Question: Date Expected vs Date Added

[ymbd]

This is a very easy question, just can't seem to find the answer for it.

If I add a product in my shop today (Aug 14th) with an expected available date of Sept 1st, it shows at the bottom "Date expected September 1st". Good!

What I want to know is, when Sept 1st rolls around, and the text at the bottom switches to "Date Added" what date will it say? Aug 14th (the day I actually added it) or Sept 1st (the day it was to be availalbe)?

The reason I'm asking is because I have lots of products I want to add that are becoming available in September, but I want the "Date added" to be the date they are availalbe, so they are recogized as "New Products" as of that date.

[Ajeh]

If you add a product on August 14th and say it will be available on September 1st, then you will first see:
This product will be in stock on Monday 1 September, 2008.

Then, on September 1, it will change to read:
This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 14 August, 2008.

NOTE: with stock > 0, customers can add to the cart and check out ...

NOTE: set the stock to 0, and customers will see the Sold Out and not be able to add to their cart ...

[ymbd]

Ok, so if I want the "Date added" to show as Sept 1st, I have to actually add it on that date right?

[Ajeh]

Either that or you need to write an update routine to manage or automate the changes for the dates on products that are setup as products_date_available set to the future ...

When that date happens, you can have it update the products_date_added with the products_date_available and reset the products_date_available to blank ...

I'd write some custom code, myself, and maybe jazz it up a bit be able to do a few other tricks like instead of sold out or something like that have it display a "coming soon" instead of the "sold out" and perhaps an option to not allow the product to be added to the cart until the product is available ...

[ymbd]

If I mark the product as instock, but expected in the future with the qty at 0, then the "sold out" does not appear. They can add to their cart but not checkout. I'm ok with that.

I have no idea about the rest of what you just said LOL (too confusing for me)

[jenn8five]

i've marked the quantity to 0 with an expected date in the future. however, the product is showing up under "new products" centerbox and not the "upcoming products" centerbox.

and if i change the quantity to >0, the user can add it to the cart but the product info does say "This product will be in stock on...."

how do i get it to show under the "upcoming products" center box?
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