Product with open amount

[gardengate]

I am trying to set up an open product to use it as Pay invoice online so I need to keep the amount open to be entered by our customer. I am not sure how to set it up.

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[Ajeh]

You can set it up as its own Product type so you can customize the layout easier such as Document Product ...

Then set the price to $1.00

Hide the Price ...

Change the Add to Cart to something more meaningful such as Enter Quoted Amount ...

Will these quotes be whole dollar amounts or include change?

[splieg]

Hey Ajeh,

I'm trying to do the same. I've taken your advice and made a product of type "Document-Product", but this doesn't allow you to enter your own price anywhere from the customer standpoint. Can you elaborate on this?

Thanks

[Ajeh]

Document Product has an Add to Cart qty just like a Product General ...

What you do is customize the Document Product to look more like a Quote by changing Add to Cart to read something more useful like: Quoted Amount

If you do not see the Add to Cart quantity ... make sure in the Catalog ... Product Types ... on the Document Product ... EDIT ... it is set to Allow Add to Cart ...

Changes made to the Document Product will not effect the look of the regular Product General display ...

[splieg]

Thanks for the quick reply.

I have followed your directions, however, I still can't see where a client can enter in their own dollar amount or how to implement this. My goal is to allow a client who chooses this product to be able to enter in a variable dollar value and have that added to the cart. The key here is the value is variable and will always be different. Can this be done??

Thanks again.

[Ajeh]

Make sure that you used Document Product and not Document General ...

Document Product can be added to cart ...

Document General cannot be added to the cart ...

In the Catalog ... Product Types ... under the Add to Cart should read Y or YES for everything "except" Document General ...

Make sure that when you edit that Product ... that you see:
Products Quantity Box Shows: YES

[helmetdecals]

how do you Hide the Price?

[Ajeh]

Customize the tpl_product_info_display.php with your templates and overrides ...

Look for the section where the Price is displayed:

<!--bof Product Price block -->

blah blah blah

<!--eof Product Price block -->

Test for the products_id and when it matches the id for this Product, do have this section of code display ...