With great pleasure, Aspenware presents Aspenware Commerce 2.20. We’re excited to offer a new way to redeem Mountain Collective days at participating resorts and to greatly improve the experience of configuring dynamic pricing within the Aspenware Commerce administration. We’ve also addressed several high-priority bugs. Please also see the Unity 3.15 release notes for additional information.
Updates, Features, and Upgrades
Dynamic Pricing Reimagined
Dynamic pricing is a powerful tool that if used well can drive yield significantly. Some resorts use dynamic pricing daily to adjust to changing demand with great success; however, due to the complexity of configuring this feature and issues that could arise when adjusting dynamic pricing, this tool was often used in a set it and forget it manner. Aspenware is thrilled to announce Dynamic Pricing Reimagined. Now, dynamic pricing can be configured from the product editor screen with our easy-to-use wizard. Once configured, the reimagined pricing tool makes on-the-fly updates easy to manage and reduces the overall time spent setting up and managing pricing significantly.
Reservations with Fast Flow
Aspenware has added new functionality to our Fast Flow and Reservation plugins, allowing them to be used in combination. Prior to this release, a guest had to log in before they could add a $0 fenced reservation product to the cart. Now with Fast Flow + Reservations, reservation products can be configured so that a guest can validate that they are eligible for your reservation product by entering or scanning their media code or entering their Mountain Collective voucher code (read more below). A clear application for this functionality includes offering a one-stop flow for Mountian Collective or IKON reservations, however, there could be many applications and unique stored procedures written to use this functionality to support your unique reservation product. Submit a helpdesk ticket asking for a professional services project to discuss how enabling this functionality in your store for the coming season could reduce staff overhead and guest frustration around selling certain fenced products.
Mountain Collective Redemption
Aspenware already supports the redemption of Mountain Collective days with its voucher functionality so that these guests can bypass your ticket line; however, for resorts that require Mountain Collective pass holders to redeem/manage their days in advance, Aspenware now offers a custom Mountain Collective product configuration that enables three things in the single Mountain Collective redemption product: 1) redeem your Mountain Collective voucher online, 2) load the days you wish to ski onto new or existing resort media, and 3) cancel and/or change reservations dates if you change your mind. This product configuration relies on the reservations with fast flow functionality (detailed above), and also requires a custom Aspenware stored procedure to be deployed to your RTP environment so that through entering their voucher number, their customer account is created in your environment. Submit a helpdesk ticket asking for a professional services project to enable this functionality in your environment for the coming season.
Customer Assignment on the Product Detail Page with Fast Flow
Aspenware’s Fast Flow feature now works alongside customer assignment on the product detail page. This means if a logged-in customer wants to load some “fast flow” products to existing members of their household that already have media by selecting their name on the product detail page and other “fast flow” products to members outside of their household by entering their media ids, Fast Flow products can now be configured to seamlessly toggle between these two methods of assignment on the product detail page. This allows guests who are reserving products for their family and friends to do so seamlessly.
Age Rules and Attributes supported with Fast Flow
Aspenware’s Fast Flow feature now works alongside RTP-configured Age Rules. If a product is configured with Fast Flow and has age restrictions, then upon entry of the media id, the customer whose media id is entered will be checked for both media and age eligibility. If the customer is not eligible, they will be returned invalid with an error message indicating why. Attributes are also supported with Fast Flow, so if a product has an “Adult” and “Child” variant option, the entered media will be re-checked for eligibility upon attribute change and if the previously validated customer is not eligible for the new variant, perhaps because they are too old, an error message will indicate why.
Resolved Issues
Redirecting guests to checkout when logged in through Identity
Previously when a guest selected to checkout and was not logged in, once they authenticated through Aspenware Identity they were not being redirected to the checkout page, but to the store. This issue is fixed.
Fast Flow QR code scanner retry
Previously when using the Fast Flow QR code reader functionality, released in 2.19, if the initial scan came back invalid there was no way to try again outside of refreshing the page. This has been fixed.
Fast Flow subsequent invalid media entry showing as valid if preceded by a valid entry
After a customer has been validated by entering in or scanning their media id, a subsequent invalid media entry will remain assigned to the initial validated customer. This issue has been fixed.
Enforcing Cross-Sell Display Limits
The setting to limit how many times a cross-sold product is presenting is not always being respected. This issue has been fixed.
Tax Rounding on Payment Plan Payments resulting in an out of balance between RTP and Commerce
When payment plan payments had tax configured in RTP|One, for some specific dollar amounts, the tax amount would be reported to RTP|One off by a cent or two, resulting in an out of balance. This has been fixed.
Payment Plan Payment Modal on the PDP
In 2.19, if a product is configured as an Aspenware Payment Plan product the “View Payment Schedule” modal is failing to trigger on the product detail page and in your cart. This has been fixed.
Add On selection not updating the price on the product detail page
In 2.19, if an add on option is selected on the product detail page, the price shown next to the add to cart button was not refletive of the core product price + the add on product price, though the price in the cart was correct. This has been fixed.
Occassionally EZLinks Tee Time products quantities are adjusting during checkout to invalid quantities. This issue has been fixed.
For EZLinks Tee Time products, the cart ID from Aspenware Commerce is now being sent to the Trans # in EZLinks. This will result in better data to troubleshoot future issues.
Upcoming work
IKON Friends and Family Ticket Redemption using integration into IKON Identity and API
Heartland Payment Provider Support
Enable parking product sales using Arrive (3rd Party) as the Parking fulfillment system