pre order

Hi, I sell a vegetable which is only avilable after harvesting.
My customers want to order them at once and I don´t want to lose them bay saying it is not avilable at the moment and they can´t order it. I guess they won´t come back in two weeks....

I would like to make it possible to do an pre order!
What is the right way to do so? What I found out is following...

1) Start of selling
Problem if I write start of selling date in future the customer does see this information only once at the product site, after ordering there is no further information about time of delivery.

2) Avilability
Problem if I write the avilability f.ex. In two weeks the customer does see the information only at the product page

3) ??? Is there any other way to make pre orders possible so that the customer can get good visible informations about the date of delivery in the near future

Hope I could explain it clear.
A soloution could be to write the aproximate delivery date to the order confirmation. But unfortunately I can`t do php things like this

Hope someone has a good idea and would be happy to get help
greetings from bavaria
georg

Thanks for your help. Seems to be the thing that would suit my needs.
But how do I do this
It means that when the product is less or equal to 100, some text are displayed differently in the front-end (due to the modifications by view override).
Where can I arrange that a text is displayed. That would be a realy good solution.
Regards
Georg

Hi Nicolas,

Would you happen to know how to do this on HikaShop 2.5.0 or 2.6.0? The view file has changed and I couldn't make these edits.

Thank you

Thank you for your help, this has worked perfectly!

Hi

I'm in the exact same situation. Lets say I'm selling ducks and turkeys for Christmas. They will be slaughtered on the 20th of December and after this date, customers can come and pick them up at my store. I have a 75 walking around, so I will use Product Quantity for this.

It's and old threat - is it still current? Can we expect any new feature on this issue in next version of HikaShop?

I don't quit follow the quantity -100 or, if Quantity is less than...
Would it not be a better approach to add ta Custom Field (checkbox): Pre-order
And then check be if this is set or not, and then do they below trick to show ADD_TO_CART-button even if Available From is set to 20th of December and do trick to show Quantity of 75 too if this is set? And show the Available From date, so that customer know it's a pre-order and Ducks and Turkeys will be ready on this date. And every time 1 is sold, Quantity will be calculated to 1 less?

Regards,
Henrik

Hi
OK, here is my solution to my situation with pre-order.

I added a Custom Field: pre_order

ITEM_PRE_ORDER_DATE="<div class="hikashop_product_pre_order"><span>Pre-Order!</span> This item will be available on %s</div>"
PRE_ORDER_ADD_TO_CARD="Pre-Order and add to cart"

} elseif($start_date && $start_date > time() && empty($this->row->pre_order)) {
?>
<span class="hikashop_product_sale_start"><?php
echo JText::sprintf('ITEM_SOLD_ON_DATE', hikashop_getDate($start_date, $this->params->get('date_format','%d %B %Y')));
?></span>
<?php
} elseif(!$this->params->get('catalogue') && ($this->config->get('display_add_to_cart_for_free_products') || !empty($this->row->prices))) {
if($start_date && $start_date > time() && !empty($this->row->pre_order)) {
echo JText::sprintf('ITEM_PRE_ORDER_DATE', hikashop_getDate($start_date, $this->params->get('date_format','%d %B %Y')));		
}

if($this->params->get('add_to_cart', 1) && $start_date && $start_date > time() && !empty($this->row->pre_order)) {
echo $this->cart->displayButton(JText::_('PRE_ORDER_ADD_TO_CARD'), 'add', $this->params, $url, $this->ajax, '', $max, $min);
} else {
echo $this->cart->displayButton(JText::_('ADD_TO_CART'), 'add', $this->params, $url, $this->ajax, '', $max, $min);
$btnType = 'wish';
}

Small correction, if product is sold out, then don't show Pre-Order text. Instead show the NO_STOCK text.

Cart will allow product with ITEM_SOLD_ON_DATE, but checkout will not.
I need to find out where to get pass checkout, when product has $start_date set.
Any suggestions is welcome.

Instead of deleting code, I added check if product_pre_order is set or not.
Then code will still work, if $start_sale_date is in future and pre_order is not set.

Hi Nicolas

All this about Pre Order I did was working fine before 3.0, but this has changed now. So I will have to re-add my customizations and override quantity.php.

I don't use legacy cart, so could you help me out where to edit, to allow checkout to continue?

I guess this line should be edit?

if(empty($product->product_sale_start) && (int)$parent_product->product_sale_start > 0 && (int)$parent_product->product_sale_start > time()) {

if(empty($product->product_sale_start) && (int)$parent_product->product_sale_start > 0 && (int)$parent_product->product_sale_start > time() && empty($product->product_pre_order)) {

Hi Jerome
Sorry, no it's not in the product/quantity view. I was referring to Nicolas post #254550 where he told me to change core Hikashop file: administrator/components/com_hikashop/classes/cart.php

I got everything working but found out that I could not pass checkout. Nicolas helped me with that.

I think I know how to edit the new 3.2.1 quantity view. Even thought the code is all new and good looking.

Regards,
Henrik

nicolas wrote: Hi,

The line:
echo '<span class="hikashop_product_stock_count">'.JText::sprintf('X_ITEMS_IN_STOCK',$this->row->product_quantity).'</span><br/>';

Is now:
echo '<span class="hikashop_product_stock_count">'.$text.'<br/></span>';

So similarily, you can replace it with :
if($this->row->product_quantity>100){
echo '<span class="hikashop_product_stock_count">'.$text.'</span><br/>';
}else{
echo 'The product is out of stock. However, you can pre-order it';
}

and replace the lines:
if($this->row->product_quantity == 1 && JText::_('X_ITEM_IN_STOCK') != 'X_ITEM_IN_STOCK')
$text = JText::sprintf('X_ITEM_IN_STOCK', $this->row->product_quantity);
else
$text = JText::sprintf('X_ITEMS_IN_STOCK', $this->row->product_quantity);

with:
if($this->row->product_quantity == 1 && JText::_('X_ITEM_IN_STOCK') != 'X_ITEM_IN_STOCK')
$text = JText::sprintf('X_ITEM_IN_STOCK', $this->row->product_quantity-100);
else
$text = JText::sprintf('X_ITEMS_IN_STOCK', $this->row->product_quantity-100);

Hi Nicolas

Is this plugin new?
www.hikashop.com/marketplace/product/109...rder-by-obsidev.html

Will it solve my need for allowing my users to preorder a product in Hikashop/Hikamarket and can I then drop the custom field and all the code we have done in this thread?

Regards,
Henrik