Demand

Canonical URL: http://schema.org/Demand

Thing > Intangible > Demand

A demand entity represents the public, not necessarily binding, not necessarily exclusive, announcement by an organization or person to seek a certain type of goods or services. For describing demand using this type, the very same properties used for Offer apply.

Usage: Between 1000 and 10,000 domains
PropertyExpected TypeDescription
Properties from Demand
acceptedPaymentMethod LoanOrCredit  or
PaymentMethod 
The payment method(s) accepted by seller for this offer.
advanceBookingRequirement QuantitativeValue The amount of time that is required between accepting the offer and the actual usage of the resource or service.
areaServed AdministrativeArea  or
GeoShape  or
Place  or
Text 
The geographic area where a service or offered item is provided. Supersedes serviceArea.
availability ItemAvailability The availability of this item—for example In stock, Out of stock, Pre-order, etc.
availabilityEnds DateTime The end of the availability of the product or service included in the offer.
availabilityStarts DateTime The beginning of the availability of the product or service included in the offer.
availableAtOrFrom Place The place(s) from which the offer can be obtained (e.g. store locations).
availableDeliveryMethod DeliveryMethod The delivery method(s) available for this offer.
businessFunction BusinessFunction The business function (e.g. sell, lease, repair, dispose) of the offer or component of a bundle (TypeAndQuantityNode). The default is http://purl.org/goodrelations/v1#Sell.
deliveryLeadTime QuantitativeValue The typical delay between the receipt of the order and the goods either leaving the warehouse or being prepared for pickup, in case the delivery method is on site pickup.
eligibleCustomerType BusinessEntityType The type(s) of customers for which the given offer is valid.
eligibleDuration QuantitativeValue The duration for which the given offer is valid.
eligibleQuantity QuantitativeValue The interval and unit of measurement of ordering quantities for which the offer or price specification is valid. This allows e.g. specifying that a certain freight charge is valid only for a certain quantity.
eligibleRegion GeoShape  or
Place  or
Text 
The ISO 3166-1 (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2) or ISO 3166-2 code, the place, or the GeoShape for the geo-political region(s) for which the offer or delivery charge specification is valid.

See also ineligibleRegion.

eligibleTransactionVolume PriceSpecification The transaction volume, in a monetary unit, for which the offer or price specification is valid, e.g. for indicating a minimal purchasing volume, to express free shipping above a certain order volume, or to limit the acceptance of credit cards to purchases to a certain minimal amount.
gtin12 Text The GTIN-12 code of the product, or the product to which the offer refers. The GTIN-12 is the 12-digit GS1 Identification Key composed of a U.P.C. Company Prefix, Item Reference, and Check Digit used to identify trade items. See GS1 GTIN Summary for more details.
gtin13 Text The GTIN-13 code of the product, or the product to which the offer refers. This is equivalent to 13-digit ISBN codes and EAN UCC-13. Former 12-digit UPC codes can be converted into a GTIN-13 code by simply adding a preceeding zero. See GS1 GTIN Summary for more details.
gtin14 Text The GTIN-14 code of the product, or the product to which the offer refers. See GS1 GTIN Summary for more details.
gtin8 Text The GTIN-8 code of the product, or the product to which the offer refers. This code is also known as EAN/UCC-8 or 8-digit EAN. See GS1 GTIN Summary for more details.
includesObject TypeAndQuantityNode This links to a node or nodes indicating the exact quantity of the products included in the offer.
ineligibleRegion GeoShape  or
Place  or
Text 
The ISO 3166-1 (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2) or ISO 3166-2 code, the place, or the GeoShape for the geo-political region(s) for which the offer or delivery charge specification is not valid, e.g. a region where the transaction is not allowed.

See also eligibleRegion.

inventoryLevel QuantitativeValue The current approximate inventory level for the item or items.
itemCondition OfferItemCondition A predefined value from OfferItemCondition or a textual description of the condition of the product or service, or the products or services included in the offer.
itemOffered Product  or
Service 
The item being offered.
mpn Text The Manufacturer Part Number (MPN) of the product, or the product to which the offer refers.
priceSpecification PriceSpecification One or more detailed price specifications, indicating the unit price and delivery or payment charges.
seller Organization  or
Person 
An entity which offers (sells / leases / lends / loans) the services / goods. A seller may also be a provider. Supersedes merchant, vendor.
serialNumber Text The serial number or any alphanumeric identifier of a particular product. When attached to an offer, it is a shortcut for the serial number of the product included in the offer.
sku Text The Stock Keeping Unit (SKU), i.e. a merchant-specific identifier for a product or service, or the product to which the offer refers.
validFrom DateTime The date when the item becomes valid.
validThrough DateTime The date after when the item is not valid. For example the end of an offer, salary period, or a period of opening hours.
warranty WarrantyPromise The warranty promise(s) included in the offer. Supersedes warrantyPromise.
Properties from Thing
additionalType URL An additional type for the item, typically used for adding more specific types from external vocabularies in microdata syntax. This is a relationship between something and a class that the thing is in. In RDFa syntax, it is better to use the native RDFa syntax - the 'typeof' attribute - for multiple types. Schema.org tools may have only weaker understanding of extra types, in particular those defined externally.
alternateName Text An alias for the item.
description Text A description of the item.
disambiguatingDescription Text A sub property of description. A short description of the item used to disambiguate from other, similar items. Information from other properties (in particular, name) may be necessary for the description to be useful for disambiguation.
identifier PropertyValue  or
Text  or
URL 
The identifier property represents any kind of identifier for any kind of Thing, such as ISBNs, GTIN codes, UUIDs etc. Schema.org provides dedicated properties for representing many of these, either as textual strings or as URL (URI) links. See background notes for more details.
image ImageObject  or
URL 
An image of the item. This can be a URL or a fully described ImageObject.
mainEntityOfPage CreativeWork  or
URL 
Indicates a page (or other CreativeWork) for which this thing is the main entity being described. See background notes for details.
Inverse property: mainEntity.
name Text The name of the item.
potentialAction Action Indicates a potential Action, which describes an idealized action in which this thing would play an 'object' role.
sameAs URL URL of a reference Web page that unambiguously indicates the item's identity. E.g. the URL of the item's Wikipedia page, Wikidata entry, or official website.
url URL URL of the item.


Instances of Demand may appear as values for the following properties

PropertyOn TypesDescription
seeks Organization  or
Person 
A pointer to products or services sought by the organization or person (demand).

Acknowledgement

This class is derived from the GoodRelations Vocabulary for E-Commerce, created by Martin Hepp. GoodRelations is a data model for sharing e-commerce data on the Web that can be expressed in a variety of syntaxes, including RDFa and HTML5 Microdata. More information about GoodRelations can be found at http://purl.org/goodrelations/.

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