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Re: How to show "New Arrival!" Icon
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I don't think this modification will work with the 4.1.x version.
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Re: How to show "New Arrival!" Icon
I have gotten this mod to work in 4.1.9.
Also, dont want to hijack, but would anyone know how to do the same for bestsellers. Lets say something like "top 100 Product". -ds
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Re: How to show "New Arrival!" Icon
Update: We installed this mod, and took it off after two days. We tend to think people do not like seeing this kind of thing, because it raises anxieties, such as:
1. Am I the first one buying this item 2. What if its not good, it really hasnt been tested in the marketplace. 3. Makes me nervous because this company has not been dealing with this product very long. Although the product might just be new to the site, and not actually new, it will still raise these anxieties. I know there are people out there who will disagree with this, but I do have some hard facts on increases in our abondonment rate, and decreases in conversion, which I directly attribute to this mod. But thanks anyway, you never know until you try...... Good Luck. PS: For those of you who do install this mod, I have attached a neat "new" image for anyone who wants to use it (the one we used)
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Re: How to show "New Arrival!" Icon
Well, some people are always looking for the latest and greatest. If you don't have "new" items then how does the customer know they are not buying last years model, or an obsolete product? Or worse, how do they know the web site is still active? In other words, "new" is good!
"New"can be overused, like putting it in bestsellers for instance. How can it be a "bestseller" if it is a recent addition? Does that mean your other products don't sell, just the "new" ones? :P It is a double-edged sword. Customers want to see "change" when they revisit a web site, and "new" equals change. So does "sale", but if either are overused they become pretty much meaningless. I have seen several retail stores that advertise "going out of business" sales for months on end. There was even one that did so for years. When they actually did go out of business recently, no one seemed to pay attention to yet another "going out of business" sale.
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Re: How to show "New Arrival!" Icon
I dont think there is a definitive right response. Some items people want the latest and greatest, but sometimes tried and true is the correct way to go about things. You cant say that what might work for an electronics company, would work for a suit mfg. Two totally different customer needs.
Maybe my post above was a little harsh, but for this particular site, we dont need the latest and greatest. I totally agree about your statement, that you want to show that your website is "alive", which is what we were trying to do........for us there are otherways, such as 24 hour sales, a clock on the website, a new products section. so on and so forth. good call....
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Re: How to show "New Arrival!" Icon
Hi,
As to how useful it is, it really depends on your industry and marktplace, for me, this will be great. I can't get it to work in my version though, it looks like it cannot calculate $products[product].add_date it's maybe not available to the template. If anyone has got it working on 4.1 please let us know how,
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Re: How to show "New Arrival!" Icon
Sorry!
It is working, just not on my newproducts.php page!
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Re: How to show "New Arrival!" Icon
Very confusing, So, does it work with 4.1.11?
If so, can someone please post the code the we need to add, Thanks!
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Re: How to show "New Arrival!" Icon
I did this on 4.2 in products_t.tpl (before reading this post) using the following code:
{if $smarty.now-$product.add_date lt 2629743}NEW!{/if} We're using styled text, but obviously you could replace NEW! with an image if that suits your needs better. The 2629743 is the number of seconds in a month, as we wanted anything added in the last month to be marked as new. If you want a different time period, you just need to figure out how many seconds long it is and then use it in place of 2629743.
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Re: How to show "New Arrival!" Icon
Anyone have a complete working code for this "New Arrival"?
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