List of customer's previously ordered items?

[hsitz]

I'm looking into using ZenCart for an ecommerce site where there would be a lot of repeat business, customers coming back to order same thing over and over again. Is there any built in functionality to show a logged-in user a list of the items they have previously purchased, so they don't have to hunt around through menu system picking out each separately.

I know the online grocery stores have something like this. So I'm wondering whether this functionality is built in to ZenCart, and if it's not built in I'm wondering how hard it would be add.

Thanks,

Herb

[Ajeh]

You would need to customize the My Account area to be able to do something like a repeat order for the customer ...

Providing products_id remains the same as well as attributes, this would be possible to do ...

[hsitz]

You would need to customize the My Account area to be able to do something like a repeat order for the customer ...

Providing products_id remains the same as well as attributes, this would be possible to do ...

Thanks. I'm not sure I'm really looking for something like a repeat order. Basically what I want would be something like a product category of "Previously ordered items" that will show the user the 10 or 20 products they normally order, out of the thousands that are available on the site. Then they could just click on 'add to cart' for the products that they wanted in the current purchase.

Is that same thing as what you were suggesting? I'll look into the My Account area.

Thanks again,

Herb

[Ajeh]

I am suggesting that you have to write this as it does not exist ... and suggested one place where this could be done and that the customer could start with a previous order ...

Or, you can write a completely different page where it lists all Products ever ordered by the customer ...

[hsitz]

Great, thanks, now that I know it's not already there I'll look into creating my own. Probably along lines you suggested of a page where it shows them everything they've ever ordered, mayb in descending order of items ordered most recently or frequently down to items rarely ordered.

-- Herb

[DrByte]

Have you looked at the Order-History sidebox?
Admin->Tools->Layout Boxes Controller ... turn it on, make it show on the left with order=0. Now you'll see all your most recent orders right there on the page after you log in.

Then add this style to your stylesheet to adjust the bulleted list somewhat:

.orderHistList {
	margin: 1em;
	padding: 0.2em 0em;
	} 

[hsitz]

Have you looked at the Order-History sidebox?

Thanks. That looks like just what I was looking for.