This virtuemart extension module, written for Joomla 1.5.X and Virtuemart 1.3.X, allows you to place a product in stock countdown for a single product in any module postion on the site.  Features include:

• Modify text before and after count, with HTML control
• Accelerate the count daily by an quantity of your choosing
• Works for only one product id PER module

If you sell a product both online and via other means, or if the product has a limited lifetime (7 days, 30 days, etc), you can accelerate the countdown artificially by entering the start-date of the campaign and the number you want removed from the count each day.  Therefore, if you have a 30 day life for the campaign, and you have 300 in stock, and you expect to sell half online and half via telemarketing and in your retail store, you would enter the 5 in the countdown accellerator field to account for the half that you expect to sell offline.  This assures that the product counts go down every day even if you sell nothing offline, so it creates some urgency for those who visit the site twice.

Installation & Configuration:

1. In virtuemart, find the product id of the product you are interested in counting down, and enter a starting inventory quantity
2. Install the module using the joomla extension installation feature
3. Open the module and turn it on and place it in the module location you want
4. In the campaign start date field, add the date if you would like to accelerate the countdown beyond the real in-stock values
5. In Multiplier value, enter the amount you would like inventory reduced by every day (affects display only, does not decrease actual inventory)
6. In Product ID, enter virtuemart product ID of the item you want counted down
7. In Intro Text, enter the text you would like to appear before the count
8. In Trailing Text, enter the the text you would like to appear after the count
9. Be creative - use HTML in Intro and Trailing text to format the text or the count number

Download: mod_vm_campaign_count_09beta.zip  - 1.92 Kb - 06/05/2009

Roadmap: Currently there are no changes and additional features planned for this extension.