Setting up Seasonal Categories – AB Commerce Online Help

Seasonal stock is important for some Retailers e.g. Fashion Retailer may have two seasons, one for Spring/Summer and one for Autumn/Winter.

Retailers may want to highlight their seasonal stock by creating Dynamic Categories, see examples below

NEW IN - These are products for the current season
CLEARANCE - These are the remaining products from last season that are still in stock

Use Product / Promotion Groups for Seasonal Discounts

When running end of season promotions, you may only want to give a discount on last season's stock.

In this case, we would recommend setting up the following under "Product / Promotion Groups" under the menu bar CATALOGUE / CATEGORIES & NAVIGATION:

And then assigning each product into the relevant category.

NOTE that CORE PRODUCTS are products that are not seasonal.

This will then mean that you can then set up the following menu options that automatically populate:

And when running promotions, you can run a promotion using the following parameters:

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