Keep Cart - question on functionality

I am looking for a way where users can have almost a 'standing order' or 'favourites' for their next order. So this week they order a, b and c and they want the same next week and the week after but they may want to add 'd' one week or maybe 'd and e' and remove 'c'.

Keep Cart sounds like a solution but PRESUMABLY when they place the order the cookie is removed. Do I understand that correctly?

OR am I WAY off the mark here?

Thanks

Currently, the customer's cart is stored in the tables:
customers_basket
customers_basket_attributes

and when an order is complete, the records are removed for the customer ...

There are a couple of ways to approach this ...

1 Never empty the cart - draw back being it is always the last order that they made or last cart that they saved

2 Rebuild cart from a previous order ... where you should give an option to combine current cart that they have with a previous order

Others have asked for a method to remake the cart from a previous order but I don't recall that anyone has succeeded in writing this ...

This is not difficult to write, but it can be time consuming ...

Many thanks for that. It gives me something to think about and we can chat around.

Thanks again

There is a very reasonably priced commercial mod for this, it expands the Quick Reorder mod in the downloads and works very well. The customer can reorder the exact products from any previous orders, even with attributes, and from there they can add or delete items before checking out.

Reasonably priced is a relative term... It's a shame "Quick Reorder" has been taken into the commercial domain.

It's an interesting approach though.

GerryTheMole:

Reasonably priced is a relative term... It's a shame "Quick Reorder" has been taken into the commercial domain.

It's an interesting approach though.

Well, it's been considerably extended and the tech support is immediate and thorough, phenomenal really. Yes, reasonably priced is relative, but 25 bucks isn't much by most people's standards and it's well worth it if you need that functionality to run a successful venture.

Can I just say thanks Ajeh. Motivated by the spirit of open source I have started writing my first PHP program and have the design in my head. It's slow going as I am having to learn syntax at the same time, but I reckon I am about 20% of the way to a working program.

When complete and I am happy it's reliable I plan on making it available to interested parties through the forum.

Fingers-crossed while I work on.

You are most welcome ... good luck on your endevors on this customizing this code and looking forward to seeing the results ... :cool:

I have a 'working' version now installed on a test server. It's at http://g.mayfield.it/cart1-3-9h/

If you want to take a look and comment I would more than welcome any input. The place to start would be the help button in the favourites sidebox. It is a test system, although it's a 99% copy of a live server without any real payment modules so any orders placed will be ignored and the live server doesn't deliver outside the Derby area anyway.

I don't get it ... :blink:

Once the orders are placed, how do I see my Favorites for re-ordering? :unsure:

If you log on then your favourites sidebox is automatically loaded with your current favourites. If you place an order then when the sidebox refreshes the favourites contain the last order as well your historic favourites. Feel free to create an account and add an order or two. It should all be working - it was for me but it needs some further confidence testing.

Not sure if it's too obvious.... The blue question mark brings up a help screen...

I see the ? for the Help but nothing about the actual Products from previous orders ...

What should I be seeing to find the previously ordered Products?

In order to see the previously ordered products you need an account and an order history so you have previously ordered products.

Use the email address [email protected] with a password of zencart

Works for your login but not for mine ...

Do you need to change the Order Status on my orders perhaps ... :unsure:

I'll be honest... I hadn't created a new customer and tested... I should have but I only used existing ones. I THINK I have fixed it but need to reprime the database and create a new customer again.

Using MY login - did you see anything worthy of note?

Oh thanks.

I have just stepped through the logic and understand fully why it was happening and yes, I have now fixed it and your account should show favourites.

Thanks again.

It works much better now ...

NOTE: once I have over a dozen items purchased on previous Orders, the list gets pretty long and I don't know that I would make it the first sidebox in the left column vs further down the column so I can do other shopping easier ...

Thanks... Placement will be a matter of choice but I had been thinking of moving the normal categories to the right - but that's the beauty of sideboxes - just keep playing 'til uou find something that works for you.

Made my 'favourites' module 'live' last night and will let it run a short while before suggesting to make it available - if anyone is interested? How would I do that for best?