CoreCommerce

The Deal of the Day feature allows you to highlight a specific product and offer a special price (on that pre-defined product) for a limited time. You will set the time range for the special deal (for example March 1, 2011 to March 3, 2011). There will be a special timer counting down the days/hours/minutes/seconds, displaying the amount of time remaining before the deal ends. This works on both the "product detail" and as a sidebar "Deal of the Day" widget to help promote your deal of the day to your customers.

This is similar to Living Social or Groupon, where you can setu p a daily deal, but there is no charge to use this feature. The main difference is that the deal is on—there are no minimum number of customers who have to purchase for the deal to be "on."

To set this up:

• Log in to your CoreCommerce admin area
• Toward the top right of the screen hover your mouse over Settings and click on Widget Settings
• Click the Deal of the Day tab
• Choose the Product - Type in the product you want to have the deal of the day on or click on browse and choose the product - You must choose a product and you can only pick 1.  
• Sales Effective Date - This is the day you want to start the deal of the day offer.  For example, if today was April 15, 2011, you could set the deal to start on April 18, 2011.
• Sales End Date - This is the day you want the end the deal of the day offer.  For example, if you wanted to end the deal on April 25, 2011 you would pick that date from the calendar.
• Sale Price - This is the deal of the day price for this product.  This will become the main product price for this product between the sales effective date and sales end date.
• Complete the info there and click Save

 

Now you will need to add the Deal of the Day widget.

• While still logged into the CoreCommerce admin area, hover over Design
• Click on Manage Design
• Hover over the Sidebar tab (top/middle of the page) and click on Add Widgets
• Click on the down arrow next to Select a Category in the middle of the page
• Choose the Product Widgets option and then drag the "Deal of the Day" widget to the left or right widgets panel
• Click Save
• Preview your store by clicking the View my Store link at the very top of the page.

 

NOTE: If you have customer group pricing enabled, the deal of the day price will apply to all customer groups.   If you have the widget set under add widgets and it isn't displaying, make sure you have the widget set to be displayed under Design > Manage Design > Sidebar > Page Display.

 

Below is a video that goes over the Deal of the Day setup.