A notification a number of days before a date on a shop's record

The customer asks: A notification a number of days before a date on a shop's own record, such as a batch's expiry

• Verdict: Ready, with limits (2)
• Door: Configure · area: Stock and buying › Alerts and reorder
• Recipe: 4. Configure first
• Sample: none yet
• Request: P-NOTIFYDATE · ask for an extension point
• Checked: run on a sandbox 2026-10-16 · POS 2.0.0.647 · a Desk notification of the kind Days Before on a batch's expiry date saved (then deleted); not run: the notification firing, a manifest shipping it

What you build

A notification in iVendNext Desk, of the kind Days Before, on the batch's expiry date, set by the shop's own administrator; the system notification or e-mail goes to a role.

Limits

• It is set in Desk, one shop at a time: a manifest cannot ship a notification on a shop's own record (chapter 7), so a partner who wants it installed for many shops asks for P-NOTIFYDATE, or sets it with the shop's administrator.
• It was saved on a sandbox but never fired (the site has no batch with an expiry date), and a batch with no expiry date raises nothing.

Tell the customer

The shop's administrator can set a notification a number of days before a batch expires; we have not yet watched one fire.

What next

1. Tell the customer the 2 limits above, and write them into the proposal.
2. Read the chapter: 4. Configure first.
3. Build and test it on your sandbox (request one if you have none; what is on it).
4. Check it on your sandbox as the people who will use it; where it touches a price or a total, the money kit's release gate proves it (testing and release).
5. Make the same settings on the customer's site, from the list you wrote down, through the customer's own change process.
6. To lift a limit, ask for P-NOTIFYDATE (the extension-point request; members only).

Nothing to code: write down each setting you make on your sandbox, so it is made the same way on the customer's site.

Related needs

• A column the retailer wants on a record's list — Ready, with limits (2)
• A statement of what each customer owes, printed and sent on a schedule — Ready, with limits (3)
• Alerts before expiry and below the minimum stock, and a draft stock transfer request made from them — Ready, with limits (7)
• A reminder per store when its stock falls below a set level — Ready, with limits (4)

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