Auto Store Open/Close (ASOC)

This plugin is intended for a Fast Food / Pizza etc bricks & mortar shop with online ordering facility.

It enables the store owner to automatically open or close the online store depending on the actual opening hours of the physical store.

As an example, a pizza shop offers home delivery and/or pre-ordering online. The physical store operates from say 10.00 to 23.00 hrs. Last orders are taken at 22.30 hrs. Therefore the store owner does not want to see any online orders after the kitchen closes - or the customer would be mighty unhappy.....

A few cron jobs and 2 files added to the admin section automatically opens and closes the online store by changing the store status to 'Showcase with prices' or 'Showcase - no prices' (selecting the former would make sense...).

The store owner receives an email once the online store status has changed.

If the physical store operates the same hours every day of the week then only 2 cron tabs need to be set, one for open and one for close. If the hours vary for certain weekdays then additional cron tabs need to be set - depending on the owner's requirements.

It is recommended that the user also installs the module Product Delivery by Postcode (PDP) to ensure that vistors from a far away residence can not place an order. You would not want to take money from someone who lives in Adelaide if your store is located in Melbourne or Sydney only because the customer lives in a suburb with a name that exists in all 3 cities (eg Cheltenham) and does not notice that the online store is attached to a physical store which is not in his/her city - makes sense???


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