Let’s say that you wish to set a global maximum orders per day limit to both your default as well as ALL your custom delivery schedules. Yes, that’s where enabling this setting will help you out!
By default, the ‘Maximum Order Deliveries per day (based on per order)’ setting works independently for Default and your Custom Delivery Settings, however, if you wish to set it up for all of your schedules, then here’s what you’ll need to do!
Head over to Order Delivery Date -> Settings -> Settings Tab -> Common Schedule Settings. That’s where, you’ll find the ‘Use global maximum orders per day for custom settings’.
Now, let’s understand this with an example.
Admin Settings
Imagine you have an online meal delivery business. You need to deliver them in different zones with a different delivery schedule but you don’t have a set limit on how many orders you can deliver to a particular zone. So for this, you have created a Custom Delivery Schedule based on Shipping Methods via the Shipping Zone.
Irrespective of the zone from which the order comes, you can only deliver overall 10 meals each day. So for this, you can head over to your Custom Delivery Schedule -> Date Settings -> Number of maximum orders per day (based on per order).
Set it to 10. Your delivery schedule will look like this:
Now, you will need to enable “Use global maximum orders per day for custom settings” setting by going to the pathway mentioned earlier in the post.
And our work is done!
Checkout Page
Since we enabled the ‘Use global maximum orders per day for custom settings’ option, the ‘Number of maximum orders per day (based on per order)’ setting will be considered for custom delivery settings too. Thus, in the case mentioned above, once overall 10 orders are placed on the store for a date, the date will be disabled in the calendar for further deliveries with the ‘Booked’ label.
For example, on 12th October 2020, 10 orders were already placed across the default delivery settings and the custom delivery settings. So the date 12th October 2020 will be disabled in the calendar with Booked label.
In this way, if you’re using different delivery rules, you can easily limit your deliveries per day on your store globally across different delivery schedules.