Overview: Calendar Templates

Owned by Jenni Buonanni
Last updated: Sept 07, 2023 by Sarah Holst
2 min read

This feature is supported for Aspenware Cloud customers only.

 

When inventory is likely to sell out, showing dates close to selling out from a shopping page calendar view creates urgency, improving conversions. Because different products and product lines have uniquely allotted inventory, resorts need more than a one-size-fits-all threshold for displaying the number left in order to create urgency.

Calendar templates were introduced in Nop 2.44 to enable more specific thresholds to be set per product type so that inventory urgency can be used across product lines and show dates that are truly low on inventory, whether the product is a ticket with 20 left, or a lesson with 2 left. Calendar templates admin was created as a foundational admin concept that will eventually replace and simplify many of the diverse ways that admins configure what kind of date selection view they want to present to customers as they are shopping. In its first iteration, however, this admin concept is meant to be used when configuring products that have inventory added. Admins can then specify whether or not to color-code days on the calendar and at what specific threshold they want to color the background of dates on the large pricing calendar and inline calendar.

The Calendar Templates Admin currently enables the following:

  • User description: This description appears above both the inline and large pricing calendars to provide more context to date selection.

  • Display inventory urgency toggle: If this toggle is enabled, the legend will appear on inline and pricing calendar products, and dates that trigger the threshold (next bullet) will have a colored background.

  • Inventory urgency threshold: This setting defines the inventory threshold at which dates on the calendar should have a colored background. If the selected product variant has a threshold of 1 (as in the example below), all dates with less than or equal to 1 left will be colored.

  • Legend Label: The legend label defined in the calendar template appears in the legend for the inline and large pricing calendar if the product is set to display inventory urgency. The color continues to come from the store-wide low inventory setting calendarsettings.inventorymessagethreshold.