Expiration date on product variation

Question

How can I set an expiration date on a product variation?

I am building a webshop and my goal is to have an expiration date on a product variation, meaning the after a scheduled date, the product would no longer be available to sell, so it would automatically unpublish. Also, vice versa, the product variation might have a publishing date.

Currently I am looking at scheduler, but that is for nodes, not for products. Is there another way of doing this?

Answer 1

Job Scheduler

Provides an API to schedule jobs. Where you can programmatically unpublish product variation in worker callback.

Simple example:

// Declare scheduler.

  function example_cron_job_scheduler_info() {
    $schedulers = [];
    $schedulers['example_unpublish'] = [
      'worker callback' => 'example_unpublish_nodes',
    ];
    return $schedulers;
  }

// Add a job.

  $job = [
    'name' => 'example_unpublish',
    'type' => 'story',
    'id' => 12, // must be unique
    'crontab' => * 3 * * 0, // Every Sunday at 3 AM
    'periodic' => TRUE, // set to false if you want to just run once.
  ];
  $service = \Drupal::service('job_scheduler.manager');
  $service->set($job);

// Work off a job.

  function example_update_users_total(\Drupal\job_scheduler\Entity\JobSchedule $job) {
    // Do stuff.
  }

There is more examples & info in the READ.ME, so read it.

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Ultimate Cron

Provides a UI where you can schedule all the cron jobs. You can implement your own hook_cron and then schedule it using Ultimate Cron.