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Q: How do I configure a product that is only available on one or a couple of days of the season with inventory? (i.e. camps, seasonal programs, events, etc.)
When setting up camps, events, we recommend adding only “start” dates to a front-load inventory pool. Then use radio button date inventory configuration for these most likely. We did this for Camps at a resort where the camp runs from July 4 – 7, but all guests book the 4th, so the only date added to the inventory pool is the 4th.
When doing seasonal programs, we often do a similar setup to the above, and just add the first day of the program to the inventory pool and use this radio button date functionality, but will hide the date on the product on the product detail page so the guest doesn’t see it, but this allows us to restrict online sales when the product is sold out.
If you need all of the dates for accounting and instructor management purposes, our recommendation is to create a separate component and inventory pool to accomplish this. This separate component will decrement inventory for all of the dates of the program and inventory should be set to auto-assign. Don’t configure this component code in the Aspenware Commerce Inventory plugin, instead use the component configured with the aforementioned steps, but this component can be used for RTP fulfillment purposes.
Q: How can I tell whether inventory is coming from my POS to Aspenware Commerce without zeroing out a day of inventory to see the date greyed out?
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