Deal product / promotion for a time period with counddown timer

[Robert Gan]

hello,

i do plan to handle a bunch of products as "deals". With deals I mean, that there is a certain amount of time and stock where the product is available for the promotion price. A counddown timer counds till zero. After this, or if the stock is empty, the promotion is over and the product cannot be bought afterwards.

Now I think about the best way to get that goal. The following options came into my mind:

- I can define a price rule for each product, where I change the price to the promotion price. In the productdetail / category I request if the product has a price rule named f.ex."deal-product" and than I include a timer.
--> that should work, cause I can define a start and end date to the price rule, and the stock is used directly from the product.

- another way is to setup a new product type (maybe much more work to do), where I get new fields with the promotion price, the duration and so on

do you have a better way? Or do you agree with my thinking? I prefer point 1 with my current knowledge.

please let me know.

greetings Robert

[Robert Gan]

btw. I tried to define a price rule for a product, but I cannot see the price change in my webstore.

I use Euro currency, but I also try to applie this rule to the currency and the product, still the standard price visible.

Do you know anything about that?

Thanks :)

[Robert Gan]

ok, this I got now...in documentation I read:

.2.3.11.3.3 IMPORTANT:
Price rules will only be run if an item has a List Price associated with it.

Dont know understand why, but ok it works :)

Robert G. wrote

btw. I tried to define a price rule for a product, but I cannot see the price change in my webstore.

I use Euro currency, but I also try to applie this rule to the currency and the product, still the standard price visible.

Do you know anything about that?

Thanks :)

[Robert Gan]

do someone know, how I can check on productdetail site (ecommerce) if a ProductPriceCond entity exists for this product id? and than find the From and thrudate, that I can create the countdown timer?

would be great,

thanks

[Robert Gan]

k got it...

found the related class "PriceServices"