Product expiration date

[MCHESHIER1]

I have the most current version of ZenCart installed with no "add-ons" currently. I am using Windows XP.

I am NOT a website developer but I can generally move around and change things when necessary. However, I have NO experience with add-ons and coding and I cannot figure out how to get my products to have an expiration date.

Every product I will have listed will expire on a certain date. I need to add that date (have it visable to the customer) and have them automatically removed about a week before the expiration date.

If anyone out there can help me with this it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

[misty]

Make products featured or specials...you can then set expiry date, and add date, when this will happen, in product description

[Ajeh]

If you could add an expiration date ... why would you want the Product removed a week before the expiration date?

Or, do you mean remove the "display of the expiration date" a week before ...

You have me a bit confused on what you want to do with this expiration date ...

[MCHESHIER1]

If you could add an expiration date ... why would you want the Product removed a week before the expiration date?

Or, do you mean remove the "display of the expiration date" a week before ...

You have me a bit confused on what you want to do with this expiration date ...

My products "actually" expire, all of them. So, I couldn't ship something out withing a week or so of the expiration date, it wouldn't get there in time. So I would like to add a product field, i guess, for expiration date. I guess I could manually take them off the site when the time comes. If that makes it easier, I'm not sure.

If I used the "featured/sales" in Zen I would literally have to enter hundreds/thousands of products twice I believe. I have that feature turned off right now because I have no product images to display at all. I don't think that is the best option for me.

If anyone has alot of experience with zen card/coding, I would be happy to let them into my admin for whatever is necessary (via private message of course). I have been spending months on something I know someone with experience could do quite quickly.

[Ajeh]

If you were to add to the products table a field such as:
expiry_date

as a datetime field you could use that to control this ...

I suggest the field:
expiry_date

as that is a good name for future upgrades ...

[MCHESHIER1]

I'm not that advanced of a user, I'm not sure how to do that.

[Ajeh]

This would take some customization to add a new field and then customize the code and how it functions ...

You may wish to post in the Commercial Help Wanted to get this written for you ...

[magicpants]

Its more complicated than that, because isn't it possible you can have multiple expiration dates for the same product? You get a new batch in, while the older batch is still sitting on the shelves?

Also, you need to tie the quantity purchased to the dates - because 12 will have an expiry of 12 dec and 12 will have an expiry of 18 dec, so as you sell out the first 12, the expiration date on the website needs to update.

And, the system needs to know how much to turn off, when you reach that expiration date. If there are only 3 left on the shelves that are a week old, it needs to remove those three from the quantity, rather than all of them.

Sorry, I can't be of more help, but it seemed like the solution you guys were discussing probably doesn't fully fulfill your needs.

[MCHESHIER1]

Its more complicated than that, because isn't it possible you can have multiple expiration dates for the same product? You get a new batch in, while the older batch is still sitting on the shelves?

Also, you need to tie the quantity purchased to the dates - because 12 will have an expiry of 12 dec and 12 will have an expiry of 18 dec, so as you sell out the first 12, the expiration date on the website needs to update.

And, the system needs to know how much to turn off, when you reach that expiration date. If there are only 3 left on the shelves that are a week old, it needs to remove those three from the quantity, rather than all of them.

Sorry, I can't be of more help, but it seemed like the solution you guys were discussing probably doesn't fully fulfill your needs.

There would not be multiple expiration dates for the same product. An old product goes out and doesn't come back, unless it came with a new exp. date..........

[MCHESHIER1]

This would take some customization to add a new field and then customize the code and how it functions ...

You may wish to post in the Commercial Help Wanted to get this written for you ...

Unfortunately I can't afford that. I will just have to figure something out or eventually give up on Zen if its not possible.