Make an Offer

[pewe]

I am looking for a way to allow visitors to 'Make an Offer' for products - automated from a button hopefully.

Has anyone any ideas for this.

Thanks.

[davewest]

I am looking for a way to allow visitors to 'Make an Offer' for products - automated from a button hopefully.

Has anyone any ideas for this.

Thanks.

It's not that hard to do.. If you create a new product type you then have alot of room to do what you want. The hardest part is deciding how you want to have the rules play out, admin counter offers, code counter offers, or a little of both! Once that's done, making the code do what you want is easy.

In the end, I went with a little bit of both with a switch to let the code do it all for now...

[pewe]

Thanks for the input Dave.

Unfortunately I am not a coder.
As the site is for a 'Garage sale' clear out of my office, workshop and attic I don't really have too long to experiment and I was hoping something simple was already in existence, such as a button which opens an e-mail or form with the product code or description as a subject line.


(On a side note, seeing your name brought a lump to my throat - it was my brothers name too. HE was killed in a motorcycle accident a few years ago and it was the anniversary of the incident recently.)

[stevesh]

... such as a button which opens an e-mail or form with the product code or description as a subject line.

This is something like that:

http://www.zen-cart.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=109

[pewe]

This is something like that:

http://www.zen-cart.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=109

Thanks Steve - that looks interesting.
I will investigate further later today.

However: talk about coincidence - first a namesake, and now a fellow martial artist (if your signature means that).
I taught Karate for 20 years starting back in the mid sixties - those were the days

[stevesh]

Nope, I wouldn't know a dojo from a HoJo. Those appelations after the user name are added by the forum software after you reach a certain number of posts.

[pewe]

Nope, I wouldn't know a dojo from a HoJo. Those appelations after the user name are added by the forum software after you reach a certain number of posts.

[pewe]

Superb !!
I have looked at the 'Ask a Question' mod and it appears to work as I want for a 'Make an Offer' plugin - except for changing the wording on the button and the form.

However before I make those changes I wonder if the same code would work with changes so that I could use both 'Ask a Question' AND 'Make an Offer' at the same time.

I will spend some time investigating this by studying the files.

However, not being a coder could someone confirm that to do this, as well as changing the button and form wording, if I changed every occurence of the words 'ask a question' (including in the file names) to 'make an offer' that this would work. Or is there likely to be other coding that may not be so obvious that could cause a conflict when using the two together.

Thanks