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Use the chart below to compare how the new Cloud UI Redesigned Pricing Calendar stacks up against the standard Commerce calendar and the Advanced Pricing Calendar.
Scenario | Commerce Pricing Calendar | Commerce Advanced Pricing Calendar | Cloud UI Pricing Calendar |
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Product uses tiered pricing, and the threshold has been hit to trigger the “Only 10 left at this price!” message. | A banner shows how many are left on all dates with price scarcity.  | Background of dates with price scarcity can be shaded and the legend may be customized. Banner indicating how many left display.  | Dates with only price scarcity have green text and no background shading. Banners showing how many are left have been removed to simplify pricing information presented to the guest.  |
Product has inventory and has reached the threshold to trigger messaging that inventory is low for that date. | A banner shows how many are left on all dates with inventory scarcity.  | Background of dates with inventory scarcity can be shaded and the legend may be customized to indicate plenty, low inventory, and sold out uniquely, and customize the legend for each status. A banner indicates how many are left on that date. If date has both inventory and price scarcity, dates with price scarcity have red text. Red text is not customizable and has no legend. | Triggered dates are shaded yellow. The yellow color is configurable in the Aspenware Styling pluginr, but we recommend #F6D241 for ADA compliance. A legend for background shading is available to help with user comprehension.  |
Product has inventory and sold out threshold has been triggered. | Sold out dates show the day in grey, have a grey diagonal slash through them, and have the words “SOLD OUT” displayed. (Note that this treatment is different from the “Unavailable” treatment for days in the past, past the cutoff time, etc. Unavailable dates will simply have a light grey date and not be clickable.) | Sold out dates have a grey background, and the legend value for sold is customizable. | Sold out dates have a grey background, and the legend value for sold out is customizable.  |
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Date scenario | Pricing Calendar | PDP Calendar | Radio button date | Admin notes | Theme notes |
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Available unselected with no scarcity | Date appears as selectable Oct 31 - without base price
With base price  | Date # is black and centered in square box with
| Oct 29 - inherits radio button design system treatment
| AUS/NZ/CA culture date format adjustments for radio button date and how date is displayed in item summary and cart notice | Not customizable |
Available and selected | Hover state on the 15th
Clicking will remove grey and set a heavy outline in resort’s primary color right before page change | July 17 Selected date has a heavy outline in resort’s primary color right  | Oct 28 - inherits radio button design system treatment
| Selected date outline color. | |
Available with price scarcity - which means tiers are configured and are below the store-wide price inventory threshold (same as legacy) | Dates that are $15 have tiered pricing with limited amount left  | No indication | No indication | Global store-wide Lang string for price scarcity key= calendarsettings.pricingcountmessagethreshold Global store-wide setting to display great value = Store-wide threshold. If Pricing inventory is equal or below this threshold the date will appear as green on pricing calendar catalogsettings.dynamicpricingcalendar.pricingcountmessagethreshold | Green color - defined in theme designerTheme Designer. We recommend #28763A for ADA compliance and based on A/B test results. |
Available with inventory scarcity | Unselected date with scarcity has entire cell shaded with configurable scarcity color and black text.  | Unselected date with scarcity has entire cell shaded with configurable scarcity color and black text.   Selected date with scarcity  | Item summary only  | Background color is configurable with setting calendarsettings.lowinventorybackgroundcolor Requires that product is setup set up with calendar templates. The low inventory legend key comes from calendar template config configuration “legend label”.  | Badge is not configurable??. Background color is a store setting and can be changed outside of theme designerTheme Designer. |
Unavailable because it is sold out, meaning POS inventory is returned and none is available | Key displays on calendars if they have inventory. Grey background is not configurable. Dates cannot be selected if sold out.  | Grey background is not configurable. Dates cannot be selected if sold out. If no future date availability, display a message is displayed.  | Date will not appear. If no dates are available, then the “no dates are available for your selection” message will appear.  | IF If a product has inventory added, the sold out key will display. Global language string for sold out dates legend calendarsettings.soldoutstatustext | Grey is not configurable. |
Unavailable for any other reason:
| July 1 -15 Date displays as grey and strike through. No key value.  | July 1 -15 Date displays as grey and strike through. No key value.  | Date will not appear. If no dates are available, then the “no dates are available for your selection” message will appearbe displayed. | Unavailable date appears as grey and strike through across all. |
