Product Selling Period Dates allow you to set the selling period, the fulfillment start date, and a date to retire commercial products. The selling period is the time period between the selling start date and the selling end date of a product, and it controls when the product can be ordered or sold.
The fulfillment start date supports pre-orders for commercial products that are can be fulfilled at a later date. An end of life date is used to retire commercial products when the business decides to discontinue selling or supporting permanently.
Starting in Fall '18, you can create products in the shared catalog with the following dates:
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Selling Start Date( vlocity_cmt__SellingStartDate__c): This defines when the commercial product can be ordered and sold.
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Selling End Date (vlocity_cmt__SellingEndDate__c): This defines when the commercial product can be stopped from ordering. Changes to existing assets are supported after the end of selling and before it is retired (applies only to Cart APIs).
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Fulfillment Start Date (vlocity_cmt__FulfilmentStartDate__c): This defines when the commercial product is ready to be fulfilled. By default, this is same as the selling start date but can be a future date.
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End Of Life Date (vlocity_cmt__EndOfLifeDate__c): The EOL date of a product is the date on which the commercial product is no longer supported.
These product selling period fields have a data type of Date/Time and are intended for commercial products only. Technical products and promotions do not use these fields and should continue to use the existing effectivity date fields. Assets do not use these fields.