Set Pricing Calendar View to Default to Winter Season Start Date

Overview

Aspenware commerce has the ability to link to a specific date on the product detail page, but unfortunately not on the calendar page without the following workaround. The setting that controls which month is defaulted in the calendar view is a store-wide setting called seasonsettings.startdate, but unfortunately, if you set this season start date to November, you will block guest from being able to buy summer products, because it is essentially setting the earliest available purchase date. Until this is better supported in the product, there are a couple of workarounds available, depending on whether the specific product uses a calendar view or not. 

1. Product NOT Configured with a Pricing Calendar View

• Follow this article here for how to link to the first date of the season on the product detail page.

2. Product Configured with a Pricing Calendar View

• From the Edit product details page go to the Specification attributes tab if any of the following apply:

  • Attribute Type: Custom Text

  • Attribute: Choose 'Product Cutoff Days [Cutoff Days]' from the list. 

• Value: Enter the number days until your product start date.  So for example, if today is 133 from the season start date, that could be the value entered. Note: Keep in mind that, every 20 or so days, this value will need to be updated. 

• Allow Filtering: Leave unselected

• Show on product page: Select this

• Select Add attribute  

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