Configuring your storefront to use production restrictions and delivery restrictions
Once any calendars, production restrictions and delivery restrictions have been specified, we need to define where they are being used.
Production restrictions are assigned to products (within the product variant settings) or to product groups.
Delivery/Shipping restrictions are assigned to delivery methods.
The calendars, as we have seen in other tutorials, are directly applied to the production and delivery restrictions.
1. Navigate to the Product Variant settings of the product you wish to apply production restrictions to
First, we will apply our production restrictions on a product by product basis.
2. Click on Info
3. Select your production restriction specification from Production restriction dropdown
4. Check Enable Delivery Countdown
This enables a countdown clock for this particular product, showing how long the user has to place an order to get the product by a stated date.
5. Click on Save
6. Navigate to Delivery Computation
7. Click on Usage rules next to your chosen delivery provision
8. Select your chosen delivery restriction specification from Delivery restriction dropdown
9. Click on Save
10. Next, we will see how this appears on the front-end when placing an order
11. If production tiers were specified, changing the quantity will update the countdown clock
12. Delivery countdown
13. Add to basket
14. Proceed through checkout and place the order
15. Shared Print Operations
Within Shared Print Operations (SPO), back-end users will be able to see the calculated "dispatch by" and "deliver by" dates, calculated using the restrictions specified.
16. Click on Sales
Additional human-readable information can also be found in the Sales section
17. Click on Orders
18. Click on View next to the order just placed
19. A block of text is available on this screen showing how the production and delivery dates were calculated
