Expiry date not displayed as expected

[egoetschel]

In the description of the plugin the following features are described:

• Present expiry date to the customer on the product detail page, cart page and/or on the delivery note (fully customizable).
• Get an overview of products in stock that are about to expire.

At the moment only one expiry date is shown, but the whole stock.

This makes no sense, neither for stock managment nor the customer.

Have I overseen something?

[Soft79]

Hi egoetschel,

– On the product detail page the expiry date is displayed of the oldest item.
– On the cart page and in the order confirmation, the expiry date of all products is displayed (e.g. 1×2017-08-01 2×2017-09-01)

What would you like to see differently?

[egoetschel]

Sorry, I didn’t receive a notification, that there is an answer to my post…

In the product overview is only the expiry date of a) the oldest item without b) the number of items with this expiry date. This makes no sense to manage the stock.

On the product detail page is the expiry date of the oldest item displayed. What’s the sense of this? It’s possible that a customer also buys items with another expiry date. Further I ask myself if this is legal.

[Soft79]

You can change this with template override.

1) Create a new file wp-content/YOUR_CHILD_THEME/soft79-wc-expiry-dates/single-product/expiry-date.php
2) Paste this contents in the file:

<?php

if ( ! defined( 'ABSPATH' ) ) {
	exit;
}
if ( ! empty( $stock_items ) ):
	?>
	<div class="soft79_wcxd_expiry_dates">
		<?php
            if ( $expiry_date = $product_logic->getPurchasableExpiryDate() ) {
                echo $expiry_rule->getTitle() . ': <span class="soft79_wcxd_expiry_date">' . SOFT79_WCXD_View::formatStockItemsHtml( $stock_items ) . '</span>';
            }
		?>
	</div>
	<?php
endif;

Now all expiry dates are displayed at the product detail page.

[Soft79]

PS: Why wouldn’t it be legal? The expiry date is shown, and if a customer purchases more than the available amount (of the oldest items), he will receive items with a better expiry date.

[egoetschel]

Thank you very much for the fix! And how can this be done for the product overview (in the backend)?

I’m happy not to be part of the EU. They have a law for everything… And with most of the WooCommerce shops something is illegal. If you want to know, if the plugin is legal you have to check it with a lawyer. Or bether add some disclaimer. Just a thought. 😉

[Soft79]

This can’t be done in the backend. I’m planning on implementing a better overview at the backend, but don’t have an ETA for this yet.

[egoetschel]

Okay, I understand. But it also is not possible to export the values (metadata). In my opinion this is a fault.

[Soft79]

The data is stored in _j79_wcxd_expiries / _j79_wcxd_expiry_date . This can be exported, but it has to be deserialized to process.

[egoetschel]

How can it be exported? There is nothing in the exported data that can be deserialized.

[Soft79]

If you use this plugin: https://nl.wordpress.org/plugins/product-import-export-for-woo/

And include this filter to your functions.php:

add_filter( 'woocommerce_csv_product_post_columns', function( $arr) {
	$arr['_j79_wcxd_expiries'] = '_j79_wcxd_expiries';
	$arr['_j79_wcxd_expiry_date'] = '_j79_wcxd_expiry_date';
	return $arr;
});

Now you can export the expiry dates. Please note that dates are stored as unix timestamp.

I’m not sure if import works out of the box. I’ve never tested it.

[egoetschel]

This is really great! Thank you very much for the support!

[egoetschel]

I tried the filter, but it does not work. 🙁

The default export function shows the first data as unix timestamp (also without the filter).

The plugin Product Import Export for WooCommerce shows no data.

[Soft79]

How strange, are the fields displayed and checked on the export page?

[egoetschel]

Sorry, my fault! The child theme was not activated in the test installation.

It works now without any problems.

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