I'm designing a website for our winery. I want to include online shopping and am considering Shopping Cart Creator Pro. Our liquor license does not allow us to sell wine on Sunday. Is there a way to close the store on specific days? Better yet, since we sell more than wine, is there a way to stop sales of certain products on specific days?

Thats a first for this forum i think, how to stop sales

Are you sure that rule applies to internet sales, because if it does i think this is going to be almost impossible

Initially though i guess as SCCP uses third party payment gateways, the page where customer selects which one to choose (ie cart page) at least could have a polite message requesting they dont order on sundays

But i cant see how you can shut some categories down for a day, unless the wine products are in their own cart entirely from the rest.

I bet there's different rules for internet sellers, after all what about sales to US or Australia, could cause even more issues

I'm thinking that you make two shops, one has the wine and the other has the hard goods. Then write a script to redirect users to a custom page on Sundays apologizing for the issue but to come back on Monday. Then place a link to the other shop or do an auto redirect.

I spoke with liquor control in our state (Ohio) and was told it does apply to internet sales. I was hoping to let people order on Sunday and then I could ship during the week. They were not open to the idea last time I spoke with them. Will continue to work with them.

In the meantime, I'm hoping to come up with a solution through my website.

Diana

Eric,

Your work around sounds good. Would you have any examples of a script that would be based on day of week?

Diana

Another way would be to mark the products as not published in SCCP and re-upload the site on Sundays, then come Monday morning mark the products as published in SCCP and re-upload again.
Not the most elegant of solutions, but it is possible this way.

thats the way my delorean shop is set up, the wedding rings in one site , signets in the other so Diana can check mine out to see how it will work

I do get issues though were customers seldom go to the VSD home pages so they are unaware of the other products i sell

just a suggestion but how about using a subdomain so it becomes more obvious

sunday.threeoaks.com/vineyard

weekdays.threeoaks.com/vineyard

or something similar

Just had another idea ? for Eric ?

could you using webformbuilder get a pop up form to appear just on sundays on the cart page

That could be headed some way to state due to sunday trading laws...........

Here's the redirect script. Paste to head of shop with Liquor.
The 0 in the code represents Sunday. Adjust the url to fit your needs.

@ Viv yes a little javascript could handle that.

I'm sure all the things in the shop that were alcohol related could be hidden on Sundays with JQuery. It would be really involved to accomplish this though. I think the two shop option would be better from an inventory stand point.