Store Hours & Fax mod?

[Guest]

I looked through the contribution section and was unable to find anything, so I wanted to see if anyone has any ideas on this...

 

1. The first thing I am trying to do is set store hours for osCommerce. I would like to be able to specify the hours that the store is open on different days, but I would like all of the items to still display when it is closed. If the store is closed and someone clicks on an item to purchase it they would get a message saying the store is closed.

 

2. The second thing I am trying to do is to receive orders by fax. I have a fax gateway provider, but I'm not sure if anything needs to be done to osCommerce in order for me to be able to receive orders by fax instead of email.

 

Thanks,

Brandon

[grayson]

1. The first thing I am trying to do is set store hours for osCommerce. I would like to be able to specify the hours that the store is open on different days, but I would like all of the items to still display when it is closed. If the store is closed and someone clicks on an item to purchase it they would get a message saying the store is closed.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Hi Brandon,

 

Just my two cents, but I wouldn't ever tell an Internet customer the store is closed. Why should it be? You don't need to be there, or awake, or online in order for customers to place an order. I think you'll just drive customers away with a message like that.

 

Good luck with the rest!

 

Regards,

 

--Grayson

[mark27uk3]

I totally agree with grayson on this one!

 

Tell a customer that a store is closed and you might as well pay for their parking on the high street.

 

The whole point of internet shopping is that if the customer wants to buy a box of widgets at 4am in the morning then who are we to stop him/her

 

This is what sets internet retailers apart from the high street shops - AVAILABILITY!

 

You will be signing your own death warrant if you do this me thinks! >_<

 

Just my two penneth worth anyway!

 

Mark

[Guest]

The type of industry that this site is going to be for, does not allow for orders to be placed during certan ours of business, as orders are manually fulfilled within a few hours after the order is placed. This is a must for this company, otherwise they can not operate.

 

Any ideas on how this can be done, or if there is a mod already out there for this?

 

Thanks,

Brandon

[Guest]

Is there a mod that will do this, or am I pretty much on my own?

 

Thanks,

Brandon

[cybercon]

Brandon- I too need this for a pizza parlor, did you have any luck?

[cybercon]

OK so I came up with a temporary fix. I think it does the job. I inserted this code into the catalog/index and catalog/admin so that a picture of an open and closed sign appear on each of those pages.

 

<?

$today = getdate();

$hours = $today['hours'];

 

if ($hours>9 && $hours<21)

echo tep_image(DIR_WS_IMAGES . 'open-neon.jpg');

else

echo tep_image(DIR_WS_IMAGES . 'closed-neon.jpg'),'<center> We are open daily from 10AM to 10 PM.<br> Please come back then, Thank You.';

 

?>

 

You can see it on the LIVE site Rock and Roll Pizza