Order Delivery Date

Description

The Order Delivery Date module allows an option for the customer to select the delivery date for the order they are placing; the date when they would like to receive the order.

Module Demo

Compatibility

Order Delivery Date module is compatible with the following Magento platforms:

Installation

Installing module using zip file

• Unzip and paste the extension file into your root Magento folder.
• Connect to your server by SSH.
• Go to your Magento root folder.
• To install the extension, perform this command:

php bin/magento setup:upgrade
php bin/magento setup:di:compile
php bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy

Composer installation

If you haven't installed any Aitoc module before, in that case first you will need to add your Aitoc composer repository. Please go through the document to see how you can add a composer repository.

To install the module, you will need to run the following commands:

composer require aitoc/module-delivery-date
php bin/magento setup:upgrade
php bin/magento setup:di:compile
php bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy -f

• To switch the extension on/off, perform these commands:

php bin/magento module:enable Aitoc_DeliveryDate
php bin/magento module:disable Aitoc_DeliveryDate

• To update the module, use below command:

composer update aitoc/module-delivery-date

Customer Journey

If the module is enabled and the required configuration has been completed, then on the front-end checkout page, the Delivery date selection will appear:

Users can select the delivery date from available dates on which they would like to receive their orders.

The user won't be able to progress on the next step/payment method selection without selecting a date from the Calendar.

After the user has placed the order, the selected delivery date will appear on the order detail page in Admin (in Sales → Orders → [Order Number] → Information):

General Configuration

To access the configuration of the module, select Stores → Configuration → AITOC EXTENSIONS → Order Delivery Date from within the admin panel:

Also, you can go to Admin → AITOC → Order Delivery Date → Configuration to access module configuration:

To start using this module, you'll need to Enable it. This allows you to enable or disable the functionality on a per-website basis.

The selected day in the First day of the week field will appear in the first column of the date selection Calendar on the checkout page for selecting a delivery date. Eg: If Monday is selected, the Delivery Date Calendar will appear as:

The selected values/days in the Excluded days field won't be available for selection on the front-end date selection calendar. Eg: Saturday and Sunday are selected, the Delivery Date Calendar will have all weekends unavailable for picking:

If you want to manually exclude any date for selection under Calendar appearing on the frontend, you can specify the date in the Excluded Dates. Eg: on the 3rd of March 2020, you have a holiday or for whatever reason, your business can't deliver goods. You need to add this date manually:

Then on the frontend, the customer will observe:

Processing Days

You need to specify the number of Default processing days which takes an order to get processed. Eg: if it takes 2 days to process an order, then you need to enter 2 here. So, if the current date is 25th Feb 2020 and you have entered 2 as default processing days, then on the frontend the first available delivery date will be Feb 28th:

Extend processing days, if Enabled, will exclude the dates specified above as excluded; those days or dates won't appear as a selection in the Calendar. Eg: If the current Date is 25th Feb, the Default Processing Days = 4, Excluded Days = Saturday & Sunday. The default 4 days interval finishes on Monday and based on this setting it will be either count weekends (Extend Processing Day disabled) or not (Extend Processing Day enabled):

Product-based Configuration

When the module is installed, it adds a new attribute "Processing Time (days)" (dt_processing_time). This attribute allows adding value for the delay it takes for processing orders for specific products.

You will be able to find this attribute option on any product detail page configuration in the backend:

From here, you can define the numeric values for the number of days it takes for processing the order of a particular product.

How will this affect the delivery date selection on the checkout page?

Let's look at the particular example. So, for instance, for any specific product, you have set Processing Time (days) as 2 and in the module configuration, the Default processing days field has been specified as 3. Then on the frontend, if the product has been added to the cart, the delivery date calendar will display the first available date as selection after 3 days (picks highest processing days value from all products in cart and module configuration)

Frequently Asked Questions

Issues and Support

If you experience any issues with the extension, please do the following:

• Document in detail what has happened.
• Include screenshots and error messages.
• Visit: https://www.aitoc.com/customer/account/create/ and create a new account (if you do not already have one).
• Once logged in, click on SUPPORT, and then the Submit Request button to create a new support ticket.