make-products-unavailable-after-the-date-time-stored-in-product-metafields

Make products unavailable, after the date/time stored in product metafields

Tags: Metafields, Products, Unpublish

Use this task to automatically set product inventory to 0, and the product's inventory policy to deny out-of-stock purchases, after a date/time that you specify in a product metafield.

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• Task JSON, for direct import: task.json
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Default options

{
  "datetime_product_metafield_namespace_dot_key__required": null,
  "run_hourly__boolean": null,
  "run_daily__boolean": null,
  "test_mode__boolean": null
}

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Subscriptions

mechanic/user/trigger
{% if options.run_hourly__boolean %}
  mechanic/scheduler/hourly
{% elsif options.run_daily__boolean  %}
  mechanic/scheduler/daily
{% endif %}
mechanic/shopify/bulk_operation

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Documentation

Use this task to automatically set product inventory to 0, and the product's inventory policy to deny out-of-stock purchases, after a date/time that you specify in a product metafield.

Configure the "Datetime product metafield namespace dot key" field with the namespace and key (e.g. "custom.unpublish_after") for the product metafield that holds a Shopify date or date_time value. More information on setting up new Shopify metafields can be found here.

When you run this task (or as it runs hourly/daily, per your configuration), the task will look for products who have a metafield date/time value that's in the past. For qualifying products, all inventory items with a level greater than 0 will have their levels set to exactly 0, and all variants will have their inventory policies set to "deny" (preventing sales, once the variants are all out of stock).

Note: If you choose to use the date only type for the metafield, then the task will receive those dates as midnight local shop time. So, if this task encounters a metafield date that is the same as the task run date, then that metafield date will be in the past based on a seconds-since-midnight calculation.

Installing this task

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