This feature is supported for: Aspenware Cloud customers only.
Aspenware Cloud 3.1 offers the new Calendar Availability Urgency feature to all Aspenware Cloud customers. Features of the new site navigation include:
Improve revenue and conversions for inventoried products by color coding low inventory dates. Creating a sense of urgency for inventoried products is a motivation for purchase, and is proven to drive more revenue. Aspen ran an AB test on its lesson products for the 2023/24 season, splitting traffic 50/50, with 50% of the traffic seeing today’s calendar which only shows dates that are sold out, and 50% of traffic seeing a calendar that color-coded dates running low on inventory as yellow to drive urgency. In this test, the color-coded experience won with a 4.4% increase in lesson purchases compared to today, and $110k more in-test revenue.
Enables the same low inventory color-coding that is only available on the full pricing calendar today across both the large dynamic pricing calendar and the inline calendar that displays on the product detail page.
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 at which # left to color code dates, to be set at a unique threshold that only applies to a group of products rather than store-wide, which is what is enabled for Aspenware Commerce. 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.
New Feature Quick Comparison - Aspenware Commerce vs. Cloud
The following table offers a quick glimpse into the differences between how inventory urgency features are realized currently in Commerce and contrast them with Aspenware Cloud.
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 at which # left to color code dates, to be set at a unique threshold that only applies to a group of assignedproducts rather than store-wide, which is what is enabled for Aspenware Commerce. Coming Soon -
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Display Low Inventory Dates on Inline Calendar | Not supported | Inline Calendars, configured by adding [Inline Calendar] to the date picker text prompt on a product, will display low inventory dates as color coded if the product is configured to display inventory urgency. |
Display Low Inventory Dates on Large Pricing Calendar | Supported but can only leverage the global store-wide setting for low inventory across all products. Also, all products that use the Large Pricing Calendar will see the key for inventory regardless of whether the product can sell out or has inventory configured/use color coding. | Supported and can leverage the specific low inventory threshold defined for a smaller group of products. Coming Soon - Only products that use the Large Pricing Calendar and are configured to display inventory urgency will see the key for inventory/ use color coding. |
Display Low Inventory Dates on Drop Down Calendar | Not supported | Not yet supported but considered for future |
Display Low Inventory Radio button dates | Not supported | Not yet supported but considered for future |
New Features
Display Inventory Urgency on Inline Calendar
This new feature enables the same low inventory color-coding that is only available on the full pricing calendar today across both the large dynamic pricing calendar and the inline calendar that displays on the product detail page. More product types can take advantage of this feature with the introduction of calendar templates, which allow low inventory thresholds, which determine at which # left to color code dates, to be set at a unique threshold that only applies to a group of products rather than store-wide. This is helpful in the example that a ticket is considered low if a date only has 100 left, while a lesson is considered low when it has less than 10 left.
