One day deals

[bigbob2]

Hi all,

 

I am looking for a contribution for OSC, but either one does not exist or I am searching for the wrong words...

 

What I want to have is a place on my site where I can have a one day special on a single product. I would like to be able to load up a queue of products and prices, so that as each day expires, the next product takes over. It would also be good to have some sort of countdown too.

 

Has anyone ever come accross anything similar?

 

Cheers

Kev

[MrPhil]

I haven't used it myself, but there is a "specials" database table which gets loaded with special items and start/end dates for the special. Does that do the job for you? It sounds like it should be looking through your defined "specials" (see Admin section) and displaying those active on a particular day. I don't know if specials.php is automatically invoked on the opening page if there are any specials defined, or if you have to enable it.

 

For a "countdown", are you looking for something like "Hurry! Only 4 hours and 23 minutes left on this offer!"? If your specials all are one day and expire at the same time, I'm sure it wouldn't be too hard to write some PHP or Javascript code to display the remaining time on the special. With Javascript, you could even have a live timer counting down on the page (but be careful not to annoy customers too much with such a thing).

[frimipiso]

If you install this contribution:

 

http://addons.oscommerce.com/info/2520

 

You can manually set a period for each special. No countdown though.

 

However, you should carefully check the contribution as it might contain some

pitfalls (e.g. if start date or end date are left empty).

[bigbob2]

Thanks guys. Still not excactly what I was looking for as I use the normal specials anyway, so I dont want to mess with them. What I would like probably does not exist, but I wanted a seperate system independant of the regular specials, where a queue of products and discounted prices can be loaded, then one per day will show up, along with a countdown timer to show how long the customer can get this offer for. Then at a certain time of the day the deal expires and is replaced with a new deal. Like this web site: http://www.1-day.co.nz/

 

Thanks Kev.