We have a product line that does monthly releases and it's highly competitive among other stockists - the release time is 6am on a particular date, is there a way to schedule inactive products to switch to active at a specific time?
Thank you! ?
Neto has some support for pre-orders, but I don't think it is specific enough to activate at a certain time. If this is a big deal for you, it's worth talking to a Neto partner. Some pretty simple tweaks could be made to the product page to have the product shown but not available for purchase until a specific date/time (stored either as a custom field or something built-in like Promo Start). It wouldn't be a complex job for them.
Hey Erik, thanks for the reply - you're correct, the Pre Order function is basically useless for our purposes, I was just hoping there was a simple solution I was missing... Neto if you're reading this it would be great if you could put this in the next update as I know you can easily schedule products to go live in Shopify and other platforms!
Thanks again Erik
The template modifications you'd need really are simple. I'd hope a partner could do it for pretty much their minimum charge. I assume you'd be ok with the product actually listed online, just with no Add to Cart button until the release time?
As an example of a similar feature, we have a custom product field called "Prevent purchase" which we can use to force a product to be out of stock on the website and hide the Add to Cart. You need something similar, just controlled by a date field.
@Peter Harback? could probably help.
https://www.netohq.com/experts/online-retail-guy
