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To enable resorts to capitalize on the opportunity to offer scarcity messaging, the Inventory Scarcity Indicators feature is offered on the calendar appearing on the Inline calendar on the product detail page (either inline or drop-down calendar) . This feature enables the following functionality:
Display the same low inventory color-coding that is available on the full dynamic pricing calendar today across both the large dynamic pricing calendar and the inline calendar displayed on the product detail page.
Offer low inventory color-coding that is available today across more product types, with the introduction of calendar templates that enables the assignment of specific thresholds to specific products.
If a selected date is below the store-wide inventory threshold, display the number left on that date on the PDP. This feature can be used to educate guests booking multiple quantities of spots left, for example, a person booking for a party of 4 will now know there are only 2 spots left before adding to cart and can call to get help or choose an alternate date.
Allow unique low inventory thresholds that determine the display of color coding for a specific product or group of products rather than a singular, store-wide threshold.
Display messaging above the calendar of specific products to explain to guests what to do if a date they are interested is sold out or nearing selling out.
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Feature | Aspenware Commerce | Aspenware Cloud |
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Threshold to determine low inventory | Store-wide low inventory threshold that applies to all products that use the dyanmic pricing calendar and have inventory. For non-Cloud implementations, the store determines a product is “low-inventory” if it drops below a store-wide inventory number. This store-wide inventory threshold is not always an accurate low inventory barometer across distinct product types, for example, a ticket may be considered low if a date only has 100 left, while a lesson may be considered low when it has less than 10 left. | Enables the same low inventory color-coding that is available today across more product types, with the introduction of calendar templates, which allows low inventory thresholds, which determine the number left at which to display color coding on dates. This is triggered by a unique threshold that only applies to a group of assigned products. |
Display Low Inventory Dates on the Inline PDP CalendarsCalendar | Not supported | PDP Calendars (both inline and drop down calendars) The Inline Calendar on the PDP will display low inventory dates as color coded if the product is configured to display inventory urgency. |
Display a Date Selection Description above Calendar | Not supported | Enables displaying a description that can appear above the Inline calendar of assigned products on the PDP. This can be used to explain to users what to do in the event the date they are interested is sold out or doesn’t have enough spots for their desired party size. |
Considerations
Only the Large Pricing Calendar and the Inline Calendar on the PDP is able to display Inventory Scarcity Indicators, the standard Drop-Down calendar and Radio Button Dates are not able to display Inventory Scarcity yet.
In this first release, only the inline calendar is using the new Calendar Templates threshold. This means that if a product is set to use both the Large Pricing Calendar and the Inventory Scarcity Indicators on the Inline Calendar on the PDP, the color coding thresholds could be different, causing different days to be color coded across the screens. The Large Pricing Calendar will be updated to be able to read from the Calendar Templates threshold in a future release.
Displaying # left on the PDP is not set to be displayed based on the calendar template threshold yet.
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