WooCommerce Pre-sales / Time offers System

• created: 18/10/2015
• latest update: 18/10/2015
• by: Lagudi Domenico

First approach

WCPS is quite simple to use. Once installed, you will find on the main menu one new "Pre-sales / Time Offers" menu voice with following sub menus:

• Pre-sales / Time Offers: in this section you can bulk assign pre-sales / time offers periods and options to products
• Orders finder: tool by which you can easily find orders with presealed / time offered products using various filter like products categories, products, dates, ...
• Options: plugin options like "Time offest" value (used to syncronize server time with your current time).

To configure a pre-sale period / time offer period is very simple. You can choose to assign periods to a single product or bulk assign to a set of product. If you choose to bulk assign, you can do that by using the bulk tool clicking directly on the "Pre-sales / Time Offers" menu voce.
If you would lik to assign a plan to a single product, you can do that by going directly on the product edit page ("Products" -> choose the product you want). You will a new tab voice "Pre-sale / Time offer" under the "Product Data" box:

NOTE: some plugin features like Role restriction, Purchase limit -> Item(s) per customer restriction, Pre-saler purchase restriction require the customer to be logged.

By this menu (or the bulk tool) you can configure several options, like:

• Start and expiration date
• Price during the pre-sale /time offer period: can be an absolute price or a percentage of the original regular price.
• Purchase limit: Purchasable quantity can have no limits or limited by user or by order.
• Purchase threshold: used in conjuction with the "Pre-sale / time offer end option". NOTE: to know if thresold has been reached, is used the value displey in the "Pre-presales / Time offer total sales" box.
• Pre-sale / time offer end options: Several option to determine when a periods end or if a product has to be unpublished and when.
• "Add to cart" label text: you can change label text during periods.
• Shop, Product messages and countdouwn timers: Option to display some message on shop page and product pages. You can choose to display timer to the starting or ending pre-sale / time offer period.

WCPS plugin lets you to easily discover who bought the product during the pre-sale periods. In every single page, you will find a new box called "Who bought during pre-sales / time offer period?" (NOTE: guest customers will not be listed):

... is quite self-explanatory :D

In the product page you will find a general "Pre-presales / Time offer total sales" that will help you keep track of the total sales during the period. This value is using to determine if the Threshold value setted in the options has been reached.

WCPS has also a pratical tool that helps the shop admin to find all the orders which have a pre-sealed / time offered period item. You can find the tool under the "Pre-sales / Time Offers" -> "Orders finder" menu. You have some options that helps you to refine the search by filtering by product(s), product category(ies), date, customer...

You can also have an overview of the orders which have re-sealed / time offered period items directly in the Order list. The plugin adds a new column indicating how many items there are.

Another useful option is the Pre-pay/Deposit option. Enabling this option, the setted price can been seen as a deposit value. Infact, Once the customer will checkout the order, the WCPS plugin will generate a coupon code (included in the Order Email) for every item in the order which had the Deposit option enabled. This coupon can be used once the pre-sale/time offer period has expired (during the period the coupon will not accepted by the system).

Example of New Order Email:

Every coupon code is only valid for the associated product and will let the user to deduce what he already paid. Coupon are one time use. Coupon can me managed directly from the "WooCommerce" -> "Coupons" area.

Optionally you can configure to display shop and product messages, countdown timer to start/expiration date and a "Add to cart" custom text:

WCPS lest you to use some shorcodes and functions to be used directly in wordpress backend or in your theme/plugin.
Shortcodes:

• [wpcs_active]: Is presale active
• [wcps_expiring_date ]: Expiring date
• [wcps_expiring_time]: Expiring time
• [wcps_expiring_datetime]: Expiring datetime
• [wcps_start_date]: Start date
• [wcps_start_time]: Start time
• [wcps_start_datetime]: Start datetime
• [wpcs_get_sales]: Total sale

• wpcs_active($product_id = null)
• wcps_expiring_date($product_id = null)
• wcps_expiring_time($product_id = null)
• wcps_expiring_datetime($product_id = null)
• wcps_start_date($product_id = null)
• wcps_start_time($product_id = null)
• wcps_start_datetime($product_id = null)
• wpcs_get_sales($product_id = null)