Product Lead Time / Availability
 

I'm looking for a way to mark various products with different lead times, or as "special order".

I have thousands of products in stock and ready to ship, but I also have products that I drop ship, and products that are essentially ordered on demand (when the customer orders) that requires additional lead time before they ship from us.

My first question is - has someone already developed this, and I can just buy it?

If not...

I've considered using extra fields - but I don't want to have to type in a lot of text in to each product. I considered using a single extra field and hard coding specific values and tying them to txt attributes so that I can mass change the message should I need to. To do this, I would have the extra field, and have predefined values (ie, 0 = immediately available, 1 = 1 extra week before it ships, 2 = 2 ...etc) - and then do an if test for value and display the appropriate txt variable.

But ideally (and eventually) I'd like this to be able to control the text on the purchase button (ie, "buy this special order item now" vs "buy this now"), as well as possibly button color, and even as far as launching a popup...

So I'm thinking that utilizing an extra field might be cumbersome, which has led me down the path of exploring what other options there are.

Does anybody have any thoughts or ideas?

Thanks! :-)

Re: Product Lead Time / Availability
 

.... anybody ?

Re: Product Lead Time / Availability
 

Have you considered one of these add-ons?

http://www.bcsengineering.com/store/preorder-backorder-mod-for-x-cart.html
http://www.bcsengineering.com/store/drop-shipper_pro-for-x-cart.html

Re: Product Lead Time / Availability
 

Wow - not sure how I missed your reply, Cherie -

I actually own the Preorder / Backorder mod - it's a great mod, but it doesn't fit what I'm looking to do here. And the dropshipper mod really doesn't, either.

I'm finally (holy crap what a stupid long cycle) getting back to this problem - I can't believe with all the shops out there that nobody else has a need for a "special order" mod....

in the last year and a half, has anybody worked on this problem by chance? :)