Variants with post date and available for purchase

[davidhellmann]

Maybe more a Feature for the upcomming commerce Version but here is my Idea.

Is it possible to have Variants with a postDate ?
We import our products automatically but some of the variants have a date in the future (new Stuff). Any chance that craft can handle that? Disable until the date is reached?

Thanks! :)

[lukeholder]

We added a new checkbox to products in beta.5 which allows you to uncheck 'available for purchase', it isn't date based but would that be enough to satisfy the need to publish a product live without it being purchasable yet?

[davidhellmann]

Sounds interesting. I‘ll check that! Thanks :)

[davidhellmann]

Hm ah I see. But we need it more on variants level as on product level.

[lukeholder]

Thanks for the feedback.

[AugustMiller]

I bet this could be done with a custom field… it may require listening to the BEFORE_SAVE_LINE_ITEM event in a plugin/module to ensure someone sneaky hasn't added a prohibited purchasable to their cart, but otherwise, you could filter out variants from display based on that field, alone:

{# In a Product's template... #}
{% set timeSensitiveVariants = craft.variants({
  productId: product.id,
  myReadyDateField: ">= #{now}"
}).all %}

I don't think this is a bad idea for core, but wanted to offer a means by which you could implement, today!

[lukeholder]

We added the following event to allow you to check the current user permissions or order to know if the variant should be available:

#2109

Leaving this ticket open as we want to add the available checkbox to the variants themselves.