Availabilities

Display the item and line item’s availability. The availability identifies the item’s purchasability. For example, in Elastic Path Commerce Engine the following states are available:

• ALWAYS
• NOT_AVAILABLE
• AVAILABLE_FOR_BACK_ORDER
• AVAILABLE_FOR_PRE_ORDER

Read Cart Line Item Availability

Read a line item’s availability. The availability rule identifies the purchasable state of the item(s) in the line item.

Workflow

1. Start with line-item
2. GET the link with rel: availability
3. Render the response

Response Fields

Type: availabilities.availability

Name	Description	Type
state	The state of availability for an item or line item. In Elastic Path Commerce Engine, the states are: AVAILABLE, NOT_AVAILABLE, AVAILABLE_FOR_BACK_ORDER, AVAILABLE_FOR_PRE_ORDER	string
release-date	Optional property. This is the date the item becomes available for purchase. In Elastic Path Commerce Engine, release-date is only visible when the item is available for pre-order.	object
value	The millisecond value of the date in Epoch time.	long
display-value	The formatted date value to display on the client application.	string

Read Item Availability

Read an item’s availability. The availability rule identifies the item’s purchasability.

Workflow

1. Start with item
2. GET the link with rel: availability
3. Render the response

Response Fields

Type: availabilities.availability

Name	Description	Type
state	The state of availability for an item or line item. In Elastic Path Commerce Engine, the states are: AVAILABLE, NOT_AVAILABLE, AVAILABLE_FOR_BACK_ORDER, AVAILABLE_FOR_PRE_ORDER	string
release-date	Optional property. This is the date the item becomes available for purchase. In Elastic Path Commerce Engine, release-date is only visible when the item is available for pre-order.	object
value	The millisecond value of the date in Epoch time.	long
display-value	The formatted date value to display on the client application.	string