Scenario: Calculate item delivery or pickup date based on finite capacity windows

API

You can use the Sterling Intelligent Promising Calculate item delivery or pickup date APIs to display estimated delivery dates to shoppers who are browsing your online store on the product details page.

For adding a pick-up area for the pick delivery method, the destination property is added to the API. You can input PICKUP_AREA the format parameter, and provide the latitude, longitude, and radius to facilitate in calculating the estimated delivery date. Refer to the following sample JSON.

 "destination": {
    "format": "PICKUP_AREA",
    "latitude": 42.5486,
    "longitude": -71.4726,
    "radius": 10
  }

Calculation criteria

For making promising calculations, only those stores that have the pick delivery method is enabled are considered. The API returns details for only those stores that are within the radius of the shopper's provided location. It also provides the best possible pick-up time for each store in the ascending order of approximate distance from the shopper.

Override node list

While calculating estimated delivery date, you can configure the API to calculate and display the capacity and inventory availability for a preselected node or list of nodes. For more information about override node list, see Buy online and pick-up in store (BOPIS).

Ship to store

When the delivery method is set to pickup, the API evaluates transfer rules for a match. If the match is found, the API accounts for the possibility of transferring the inventory from another node to the node from which the inventory is to be picked by the customer. For more information, see Ship to store. For more information about Transfer rules APIs, see Configuring transfer rules.

Requested fulfillment delivery and pick up dates

For more information about requested fulfillment date for delivery, see Scenario: Ship from store (SFS). For more information about requested fulfillment date for pickup, see Buy online and pick-up in store (BOPIS).

Example

The shopper is interested in Item_A and the shopper indicates that only stores within a 10-kilometer radius must be checked. The application must find two stores with sufficient availability and capacity within the radius, but with the following pickup times:

Store_B has earlier pick-up time. However, it is located at 20-km distance. The application API returns both the stores in the ascending order of the approximate distance from the shopper.

For more information about understanding and troubleshooting promising calculations, see Scenario: Troubleshooting promising calculations.