Buy Now Button

[kobra]

JollyJim,

Just did a small battle with this myself, not fully worked out but:

I found that if there is just a product(no attributes) that the 'Buy Now' is present;

If the product has an attribute then 'more info' is present as you must select from the options.

what I have not got my arms around is the 'buy now' does not offer a qty selection in the process and just adds 1 to the cart. There you can change the qty but it is not self evident.

I don't know if this is news to you or if you already noticed this and still want the 'buy now' button.

[Ajeh]

Perhaps an URL would help where you have this problem?

All listings will prevent adding to cart if there are attributes ...

Sold out cannot be added to cart if tracking stock ...

All listings have their own settings for Buy Now and Qty boxes ...

But regardless of what you want ... it depends on the Product as Cobra explained ...

Use attributes? Cutomer choice required ... no add to cart ...

[JollyJim]

JollyJim,

Just did a small battle with this myself, not fully worked out but:

I found that if there is just a product(no attributes) that the 'Buy Now' is present;

If the product has an attribute then 'more info' is present as you must select from the options.

what I have not got my arms around is the 'buy now' does not offer a qty selection in the process and just adds 1 to the cart. There you can change the qty but it is not self evident.

I don't know if this is news to you or if you already noticed this and still want the 'buy now' button.

Kobra

Thanks for that info. I had set up the test cart on a local test server using the dummy data at install time. I dropped the dummy products and replaced them with my own but forgot to empty the attributes table. Clearing out the attributes table does show the Buy Now button on the featured products.

However, the products which will be sold in this store (clothing) will have attributes. But I will still want a Buy Now button. The only way I can think of making this happen is to have the Buy Now button click into the product detail page just like the more info does. The Buy Now Button should display regardless of whether attributes are present or not. If they are present, the products detail should be displayed. If no attributes are present the item is added to the cart.

Does anyone have any thoughts on how to achieve this?

[JollyJim]

I finally figured out how to get all the products listing pages to use a buy now or add to cart button, regardless of whether the item has attributes or not. (Thanks to Kobra for pointing me in the right direction and to Linda for her cryptic puzzles wich kept the Grey Matter from seizing completely)

If a product has no attributes, you can display a Buy Now Button instead of a More Info Link. In Zencart Admin go to Configuration and Choose Featured Listing. Locate "Display Multiple Products Qty Box Status and Set Button Location" and set it to '0'. Next locate "Display Product Buy Now Button" and set this to '1302' or whichever seequence you prefer. The Add To Cart Button will now show instead of the Quantity box.

If a product has attributes you need to use the method "Replacing "more info" with a button modification.

You need to edit the language file so copy english.php from template default to includes/languages/YOUR_TEMPLATE/english.php

Next look for the More_Info_text define statement (about line #365)

You can replace the text in the define statement with the call to an image:

// more info in place of buy now
define('MORE_INFO_TEXT','... more info');

Replace With:

// buy now in place of more info
define('MORE_INFO_TEXT','<img src="includes/languages/YOUR_TEMPLATE/buttons/yourimage.gif" alt="Click To Buy Now" />');

Next go into your admin section and choose configuration/Product Listing. Find "Display Product Add to Cart Button (0=off; 1=on)" and set this to 1. Next find "Display Multiple Products Qty Box Status and Set Button Location" and set this to 0. You will now have a Buy Now or Add to Cart button in place of the More Info Text.

[kobra]

JollyJim,

Thanks for your eloquent explanation of your solution...

A day late and a pound short....If I had understood that you just wanted the buttom to say "buy now" this would have gotten different grey stuff moving. But your approach from the admin must have thrown me off.

Another Brit had this similar request see this post Buy Now Button

We all live & learn...

[drakky]

I finally figured out how to get all the products listing pages to use a buy now or add to cart button, regardless of whether the item has attributes or not. (Thanks to Kobra for pointing me in the right direction and to Linda for her cryptic puzzles wich kept the Grey Matter from seizing completely)

If a product has no attributes, you can display a Buy Now Button instead of a More Info Link. In Zencart Admin go to Configuration and Choose Featured Listing. Locate "Display Multiple Products Qty Box Status and Set Button Location" and set it to '0'. Next locate "Display Product Buy Now Button" and set this to '1302' or whichever seequence you prefer. The Add To Cart Button will now show instead of the Quantity box.

If a product has attributes you need to use the method "Replacing "more info" with a button modification.

You need to edit the language file so copy english.php from template default to includes/languages/YOUR_TEMPLATE/english.php

Next look for the More_Info_text define statement (about line #365)

You can replace the text in the define statement with the call to an image:

// more info in place of buy now
define('MORE_INFO_TEXT','... more info');

Replace With:

// buy now in place of more info
define('MORE_INFO_TEXT','<img src="includes/languages/YOUR_TEMPLATE/buttons/yourimage.gif" alt="Click To Buy Now" />');

Next go into your admin section and choose configuration/Product Listing. Find "Display Product Add to Cart Button (0=off; 1=on)" and set this to 1. Next find "Display Multiple Products Qty Box Status and Set Button Location" and set this to 0. You will now have a Buy Now or Add to Cart button in place of the More Info Text.

this is a rather big shortfall in the design of zen cart isn't it? why can't you have both buy now and more info at once?

[Ajeh]

More Info was designed for Products with attributes as you cannot buy these Products from the Listings ...

You can always customize the code and add additional information or links etc. via your templates and overrides to get the display to look the way you want it too ...

[JollyJim]

A product with attributes means there are things which the buyer needs to select before the sale can be completed. There is no choice in this - otherwise you would end up with a sale and not enough information.

The fix described in this thread eliminates the need for a more info link. If a product has no attributes it will be added to the cart. If it has attributes it will take the buyer to a more information page where they can choose the suitable ttributes (e.g. size etc). I do not think this is a limitation in Zencart - in fact it is a lot less confusing for the buyer to only have one button to click.

I can see there would be times when a more info link and a buy now button would work together, but personally I like to keep things as simple as possible.

[Corri]

I followed all the directions above and the buy it now button still doesn't show

[Merlinpa1969]

wouldnt it have been just as easy to change the define for more info to a graphic?

that way it would have acted like its supposed to and would have required about 30 seconds of changes that could go in the over rides file.

just a thought for the future