Deadlines

Set a fixed posting date on a product, track deadlines and the reminders bloggers get, review extension requests, and see what happens when a deadline passes.

Allomancy shows product deadlines for bloggers in both the merchant Blog Dashboard and the blogger-facing site. This page covers where deadlines come from, how to give one product a fixed posting date, what bloggers see and are reminded of, what happens when a deadline passes, and how extension requests are reviewed.

Where deadlines come from

Deadline-related settings live in the Posts / Deadlines card on the Blog Settings page. The visible deadline-related fields are:

Default Deadline (Days): how many days after requesting a product the blogger has to post it.
Required Posts Mode: a dropdown with None or Monthly.
Number of posts required: shown when Required Posts Mode is not None.

A store can also run a rolling requirement instead: a set number of product posts in every so many days, counted over a window that always ends now rather than at the end of a month. That mode is no longer one of the choices in the dropdown, and a store already set to it keeps that requirement running.

A single product can also carry a fixed posting date of its own, which replaces the store default for that product. See Setting a fixed posting date below.

Use the Blog Settings page to change these values; the Blogger Management overview introduces the rest of the store-wide settings.

Setting a fixed posting date

To hold one product to a date of your own rather than to the store's rolling window, open that product from Products and set Special posting deadline on the Extra Config step of the Product Setup dialog. The rest of that dialog is covered in Product Listing.

Pick a calendar day, and bloggers must post this product by the end of that day in SL time. The date replaces the store's default deadline for this product, whether that lands earlier or later, and requests for this product close after that day.

That last part is a campaign cutoff rather than a deadline. Once the day has passed nobody can request the product or its demo, VIP bloggers included; a blogger who already holds it still owes you the post, on the same deadline.

Before a blogger retrieves the product, its card on the blogger-facing site carries the line Must post by MMM dd, yyyy (SL time), so they know what they are taking on before they ask for it. A VIP blogger's card carries no such line.

Clearing the field hands the product back to Default Deadline (Days) for every blogger, extensions that had been counted from the fixed date included, and reopens requests.

When a blogger is on vacation as a fixed date falls, their deadline for that product moves to the end of their vacation plus the time they originally had. A fixed date that already lands after their vacation ends is left alone. See Vacations.

Reviewing pending deadlines

In the Blog Dashboard, click the View Deadlines tile to open the Deadlines page at stores.allomancy.com/blog/deadlines.

The table shows product deadlines for your bloggers and has these columns:

Blogger: the blogger's username.
Product: the product name.
Retrieved (SL time): when the blogger retrieved the product.
Deadline (SL time): the deadline by which the blogger is expected to post. A Fixed date badge marks the rows whose date you set on the product itself, so you can tell them from the ones your store default produced.

Both dates in this table are shown in SL time whatever time zone you are in, and on a row carrying that Fixed date badge, the deadline reads as the SL calendar day you set on the product rather than a clock time.

The Deadlines page is read-only. There are no per-row actions on this page. To reset deadlines for a single blogger, see Reset Deadlines in Managing Bloggers. To review a blogger's deadline-extension request, use the Extension requests tile described below.

What the blogger sees

The blogger landing page on bloggers.allomancy.com includes two cards relevant to deadlines.

Next Deadlines

The Next Deadlines card lists upcoming product deadlines, with these columns:

Expiration: how close the deadline is, worded as Due today, Due tomorrow, Due in 4 days, or the date itself further out. Overdue deadlines and deadlines within 5 days appear in red, carrying an Overdue or Due within 5 days badge. On a product with a fixed posting date, hovering the relative wording shows the exact SL date.
Store: the store the product belongs to.
Product: the product name.
Action: a navigation icon that takes the blogger to that store's post-creation page.

The blogger can narrow the card to Overdue or due within 5 days from the matching tile above it, then clear that filter again with Show all deadlines. When there is nothing to list, the card says so.

Required Posts

The Required Posts card lists every store that holds the blogger to a posting quota, monthly or rolling. Its columns are:

Store: the store name.
Required posts: how many more product posts the blogger owes the store, with their progress underneath.
Action: the same navigation icon, taking the blogger to that store's post-creation page.

A monthly requirement counts the posts made in the current calendar month and names the day that month closes. A rolling requirement counts them over its own window of days, which always ends now, so there is no closing date to give.

A store appears here only while it asks for a set number of product posts, so a blogger no store holds to a quota sees an empty card rather than a row of zeroes.

Reminders and automatic suspension

Reminders before a deadline

Inworld, a blogger is reminded three times before each deadline: 7 days out, 3 days out, and 1 day out. Each stage fires at most once per deadline and a stage that has already passed is not made up, so a blogger who retrieves a product two days before its deadline gets the 3-day reminder and then the 1-day one, and never the 7-day one.

When a blogger has inworld reminders switched on, every reminder reaches them as an IM, and the 1-day product reminder arrives as a notecard as well. Reminders about posting requirements never come with a notecard.

Email follows a different rhythm. A blogger gets at most one email a day, gathering every store and product at once rather than one message per product, sent to the address they log in with. It goes out only on a day when something new has earned it:

A product enters its final 3 days.
A product reaches its last day with the post still not in.
A rolling posting requirement comes due, once per window.
The monthly posting requirement comes due, 7 days before the month ends.

On a day when none of these happens, no email goes out.

Bloggers control both channels themselves, from the Reminders card on their own profile. The inworld switch and the email switch are independent, so a blogger who turns In-world reminders off can still be emailed and the other way round. Under Email reminders sit two more switches, and both apply only while Email reminders is on: Deadline and quota reminders covers the deadline and requirement emails, and Monthly blogger digest is a separate monthly summary for the blogger.

If email delivery fails because an address bounces or a message is reported as unwanted, Allomancy turns the email master switch off and shows a notice below it. After checking the email address, the blogger can turn the switch on again to try sending future email notifications. Delivery may still fail if the address remains suppressed by the email provider.

Store announcements and suspension notices are always sent, whatever the inworld switch says. VIP bloggers get no reminders.

What happens when a deadline passes

Allomancy checks for missed deadlines every four hours. A blogger still holding a product after its deadline, with no post of theirs pending review or accepted for it, is suspended from your store automatically. They are told they missed a product deadline at your store and have been suspended: inworld with a notecard, and by email too when they have email reminders switched on.

You can also suspend a blogger, or lift a suspension, by hand from their Profile tab. See Managing Bloggers for those badges and what a suspension changes for the blogger. VIP bloggers are never suspended for a missed deadline.

While a blogger is suspended, your store drops off their Next Deadlines and Required Posts cards, though their deadlines keep running. A suspended blogger who opens one of your products still sees its deadline there, with a note that it still applies.

Requesting an extension

A blogger can request a deadline extension for selected products from the post-creation page on bloggers.allomancy.com. With at least one product selected, the Request extension button opens the request dialog.

In the dialog, the blogger reviews the selected products, adds a Reason, optionally enters Extra days to ask for time beyond the default deadline, and clicks Request to submit. Accepting the request resets the product deadline, with optional extra days added. For products with a fixed posting date, the extra days count from that date. Only one extension request can be pending at a time per blogger.

Reviewing extension requests

In the Blog Dashboard, click the Extension requests tile to open the Extension Requests page at stores.allomancy.com/blog/extension-requests.

A toggle at the top, Show Reviewed, reveals previously reviewed requests when turned on. While Show Reviewed is on, the eye action button is disabled, so you can inspect reviewed rows in the list but not open them in the review dialog from this page.

The table has these columns:

Blogger: the blogger's username.
Extra Days: the number of extra days requested.
Reason: the blogger's reason text, truncated.
Products: thumbnail images for each product in the request, with hover tooltips showing the product names.
Status: plain text, one of "Accepted", "Rejected", or "Pending".
Action: opens the request for review.

Reviewing an extension request

Click to open the extension review dialog. The dialog shows the requested change and the blogger's reason.

Click Deny to reject the request, or Accept to grant the extension.

This flow uses Deny, not Reject. The wording differs from the application and post review flows but the meaning is the same: the request is not granted.

Resetting deadlines per blogger

To reset all pending post deadlines for a single blogger without going through an extension request, open that blogger's detail page and use the Reset Deadlines action. See Managing Bloggers for the per-blogger actions.

Vacation requests are documented separately; see Vacations.

Permissions

The Deadlines and Extension requests pages live under the Blog Dashboard, which is gated by the Manage Bloggers permission. To grant or restrict that permission, see Store Managers. For the broader blogger program context, see Blogger Management.

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