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Making Products Unavailable to Customers

Some products are only available to customers at certain times. For example, a seasonal product used during the summer may be available for purchase only during the months of May through August.

You cannot make these products unavailable by entering a End Date for versions of these products, because values are entered in this field automatically, based on the start date of subsequent versions.

Instead, release a new version of the product with the Active checkbox deselected, so this version is not visible to customers. The start date for this version will become the end date for the previous version.

For example, for a product that is only available for purchase from May through August:

• Create a version with the start date of May 1, 2006 with the Active checkbox selected.
• Create a version with the start date of September 1, 2006 with the Active checkbox deselected.

This product is only visible between May 1, 2006 and August 31, 2006.