I'm trying to find a way to setup my store to not allow sales of one specific product at a certain time every month. I need to automatically turn on sales of this one product the day after the current meeting closes and turn off lunch ticket sales 1 week before the upcoming meeting.
The product I'm selling is tickets for a luncheon that happeons on the 2nd Tuesday of every month. So the first Tuesday of the month I need sales of the product to not be allowed. Then on the 2nd Tuesday of the month at 2 pm I need sales to be allowed again for the rest of the month until the 1st Tuesday of the next month and then it repeats. It needs to loop each month.
Can I do this with the WPC Product Timer plugin? If so, how do I set it up so that I don't have to come in every month to set it up again? I don't want to use specific dates.
Since Set purchasable is a default action, it must follow the first universal reverse action (Everyday conditional) to make your products unpurchasable outside the specified date and time. Only with these settings, you can count on our plugin in making products available during the chosen time, and no need to reconfigure the settings each month.
I'm afraid I didn't explain what I'm trying to do very well. Let me try again.
I need one single product to be available for sale everyday of the month except for 1 week. The week that I don't want the product available for sale starts on the 1st Tuesday of the month and ends on the 2nd Tuesday of the month at a certain time which is 2 pm.
So for example in this coming May I want the product to be available to purchase until Tuesday May 4. Then I don't want the product to be able to be purchased from Tuesday May 4 through Tuesday May 11. Although if possible I would like to allow the product to be purchased again on May 11 starting at 2pm. So no purchasing of this product would be allowed on May 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11 (only until 2pm on May 11).
I also want this rule to be set up in such a way that it repeats every month going forward so that I don't have to enter exact dates for each upcoming month.
Thanks for the explanations. I've got your request now.
However, unfortunately, this is impossible without using the date range conditional. There's no way for our plugin to detect the first Tuesday of each month then repeat the same action in the next month since the date, the week number, and the weekday are not the same throughout the year.
Or you can set up actions to mark the starting time and ending time when your products are not available.
For each month, you will need 2 actions like this:
Action 1 (Apr): Add action >> Set unpurchasable, after date and time: find the first Tuesday >> 04/06/2021, 12:00 AM.
Action 2 (Apr): Add action >> Set unpurchasable, before date and time: find the second Tuesday >> 04/13/2021, 02:00 PM.
I'm trying to find a way to setup my store to not allow sales of one specific product at a certain time every month. I need to automatically turn on sales of this one product the day after the current meeting closes and turn off lunch ticket sales 1 week before the upcoming meeting.
The product I'm selling is tickets for a luncheon that happeons on the 2nd Tuesday of every month. So the first Tuesday of the month I need sales of the product to not be allowed. Then on the 2nd Tuesday of the month at 2 pm I need sales to be allowed again for the rest of the month until the 1st Tuesday of the next month and then it repeats. It needs to loop each month.
Can I do this with the WPC Product Timer plugin? If so, how do I set it up so that I don't have to come in every month to set it up again? I don't want to use specific dates.
Thanks for your help!
With Gratitude,
Melinda McCaw
Hi Melinda,
Thanks for contacting us here.
I've read your request, honestly, if you don't want to use the Multiple dates conditions, there's no better way to do that.
I assume that you will set these actions for all products in your store.
Now, you will need to:
- Make all products only available on Tuesdays.
- Exclude all the first Tuesdays in each month (12 dates to be picked for 12 months).
Now here is the sequence of actions for you: https://www.screencast.com/t/qdj089pDYw.
Since Set purchasable is a default action, it must follow the first universal reverse action (Everyday conditional) to make your products unpurchasable outside the specified date and time. Only with these settings, you can count on our plugin in making products available during the chosen time, and no need to reconfigure the settings each month.
If you need further instructions, kindly refer to this doc: https://doc.wpclever.net/woopt/
Best regards.
Janilyn T. - WPClever Support Agent
Hi Janilyn,
Thanks for your reply!
I'm afraid I didn't explain what I'm trying to do very well. Let me try again.
I need one single product to be available for sale everyday of the month except for 1 week. The week that I don't want the product available for sale starts on the 1st Tuesday of the month and ends on the 2nd Tuesday of the month at a certain time which is 2 pm.
So for example in this coming May I want the product to be available to purchase until Tuesday May 4. Then I don't want the product to be able to be purchased from Tuesday May 4 through Tuesday May 11. Although if possible I would like to allow the product to be purchased again on May 11 starting at 2pm. So no purchasing of this product would be allowed on May 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11 (only until 2pm on May 11).
I also want this rule to be set up in such a way that it repeats every month going forward so that I don't have to enter exact dates for each upcoming month.
I hope this helps explain what I am trying to do.
Can this be done and how?
Hi Melinda,
Thanks for the explanations. I've got your request now.
However, unfortunately, this is impossible without using the date range conditional. There's no way for our plugin to detect the first Tuesday of each month then repeat the same action in the next month since the date, the week number, and the weekday are not the same throughout the year.
Or you can set up actions to mark the starting time and ending time when your products are not available.
For each month, you will need 2 actions like this:
Action 1 (Apr): Add action >> Set unpurchasable, after date and time: find the first Tuesday >> 04/06/2021, 12:00 AM.
Action 2 (Apr): Add action >> Set unpurchasable, before date and time: find the second Tuesday >> 04/13/2021, 02:00 PM.
Settings: https://www.screencast.com/t/R5oCNZzRk.
Then you can go on for other months. There will need 24 actions overall.
Best regards.
Janilyn T. - WPClever Support Agent