Today we have the great pleasure to announce a small, but powerful feature enhancement to our Calendar & Events manager. Now you can setup fees that are based on the date using the Date Fee(s) form element.

Date fees allow you to setup checkboxes or radio buttons that change value base on the current date. You can create up to 10 date-fees with unique dates, fees and labels along with specifying a label and support text. You also have the option to choose a horizontal or vertical layout and if the element is required.

The date fees element works in the following way: If you have 3 dates entered, 7/13/11, 7/18/11 and 8/1/11 and today’s date is 7/14/11. You will get the fee and label for the 7/13/11 element. If today is 8/5/11, you will get the fee and label for 8/1/11.

If you set two elements with the same date, both will show. So if you have a 7/13/11 with the label of “Option 1” and another with date 7/13/11 and label “Option 2” and today is 7/14/11, then both elements will show.

You can also do this for multiple dates so two 7/13/11 dates with labels “Early Youth Registration” and “Early Adult Registration” and then have two 8/13/11 dates with labels “Late Youth Registration” and “Late Adult Registration”. When it’s 7/13/11 or later then both the “Early” fees will show and if it’s 8/13/11 or later, then they will be replaced with both “Late” fees.