Possibilities for price request

Hi there Zen-Cart Community !

So it's my first time using Zen Cart but i'm getting familiar with it.
Nevertheless, I still got a few problems.

What I want is a Showroom, where no prices are displayed. I already found that option.
Unfortunately, the Showcase Mode will disable my Shopping cart and replace it with a Contact-Link.
But i want to add a "add to cart" option, where the customer can add his desired products to the cart. No paying, no shipping. I only want to receive an email with the customers product list and i will send back the prices and all relevant stuff.

I already found a Module called RFQ Shipping and Payment Module (http://www.zen-cart.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=324), but i can't figure out, if its the right solution for my problem.
Moreover i can't manage the installtion process of the module. I'm not getting any wiser by reading the setup file.

Any help, please?

Best Regards,

Alex

Mindsick:

Hi there Zen-Cart Community !

So it's my first time using Zen Cart but i'm getting familiar with it.
Nevertheless, I still got a few problems.

What I want is a Showroom, where no prices are displayed. I already found that option.
Unfortunately, the Showcase Mode will disable my Shopping cart and replace it with a Contact-Link.
But i want to add a "add to cart" option, where the customer can add his desired products to the cart. No paying, no shipping. I only want to receive an email with the customers product list and i will send back the prices and all relevant stuff.

I already found a Module called RFQ Shipping and Payment Module (http://www.zen-cart.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=324), but i can't figure out, if its the right solution for my problem.
Moreover i can't manage the installtion process of the module. I'm not getting any wiser by reading the setup file.

Any help, please?

Best Regards,

Alex

Setup a normal store and for your payment option choose check/money order as your payment option. Regarding display of prices, that can be managed as well to not show prices.
For shipping, you can choose to use the free shipping module.

ZC requires at least one payment and one shipping option each to be selected. It is possible to override that, but the options available make an override pretty much unnecessary...

I don't want any payment and shipping options.

I just want a simple showroom, where the customer can browse through the products and fill the shopping cart.
At the end he klicks a button called "send request" or so (NOT "buy" or "complete order") and i will (automatically) get an email with the desired products of the customer.
I will estimate the prices and manually send back an email to the customer with all relevant information for finishing the order.

I dont want any payment or shipping options!
The problem with the showroom mode is this "contact us" button. It's totaly wothless, because you get linked to a contact site with no refer to the desired product.
And its not even possible to choose multiple products.

Are there any possibilities?

Mindsick:

I don't want any payment and shipping options.

I just want a simple showroom, where the customer can browse through the products and fill the shopping cart.
At the end he klicks a button called "send request" or so (NOT "buy" or "complete order") and i will (automatically) get an email with the desired products of the customer.
I will estimate the prices and manually send back an email to the customer with all relevant information for finishing the order.

I dont want any payment or shipping options!
The problem with the showroom mode is this "contact us" button. It's totaly wothless, because you get linked to a contact site with no refer to the desired product.
And its not even possible to choose multiple products.

Are there any possibilities?

So, working down the line of "concerns" at each presented screen the text can be modified to display what is desired, but a central aspect of ZC operation is that a payment option and a shipping option must be selected. Anything other than that requires unique coding for the store. Given one item each of those, and the guest would only need to fill in the information applicable such as what you would want when the "product" is complete: where to ship the item, etc... The other parts can be modified to suit as far as display, and this would all lead to a final "purchase" presenting whatever information you want displayed including both parties (them and you) receiving an emil with details of the request.

As for the call me functionality, I believe there is an add on to request information about a product via email. Would have to look at the plugin list.

Ok, thanks for your Response.

I would really appreciate it, if anyone got a better solution for the Problem.

So, while you continue to wait for others to respond with a solution to your problem(s), it would help to identify what version of ZC you have installed to get you past the install of RFQ Shipping and Payment Module (http://www.zen-cart.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=324).

I would also recommend reviewing the posting guidelines that appear when making a post (typically just above the text entry area) and ensure that the applicable information is provided here. Good luck and welcome to ZC!

mc12345678:

So, while you continue to wait for others to respond with a solution to your problem(s), it would help to identify what version of ZC you have installed to get you past the install of RFQ Shipping and Payment Module (http://www.zen-cart.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=324).

I would also recommend reviewing the posting guidelines that appear when making a post (typically just above the text entry area) and ensure that the applicable information is provided here. Good luck and welcome to ZC!

Sorry for over-seeing that :-)

So i got the newest Version of Zen Cart (1.5.1) in german, all files remain on a ftp Server.

Mindsick:

Sorry for over-seeing that :-)

So i got the newest Version of Zen Cart (1.5.1) in german, all files remain on a ftp Server.

Do you need anything to be stored in the database? And is your whole store for every product like this where everything needs a quote to order? If no database information needs to be passed over, I would just make a custom form and include a button on the cart page. On this custom form, it can take any details you need such as billing/shipping info, products that are in the cart along with attributes, etc...

Or if you wanted to keep the checkout process you may want to download the COWOA mod so customers do not have to create an account. From there, you can skip the shipping and payment options by forcing the session to be set. For instance for virtual products, the session array is set this way which you can do the same by taking away the conditional on virtual products. And in that array just put your new language in to instead show free and such, just put request a quote.

For the payment page you can either set the session again OR you can modify the check/money order language to request a quote. This way your checkout process flow will go from no_account page to last step of order_confirmation. The one caveat though is that on the confirmation page you will want to edit the button for edit addresses to go straight to the checkout_shipping_address page and not checkout_shipping. Same for payment address.

yaritai:

Do you need anything to be stored in the database? And is your whole store for every product like this where everything needs a quote to order? If no database information needs to be passed over, I would just make a custom form and include a button on the cart page. On this custom form, it can take any details you need such as billing/shipping info, products that are in the cart along with attributes, etc...

Or if you wanted to keep the checkout process you may want to download the COWOA mod so customers do not have to create an account. From there, you can skip the shipping and payment options by forcing the session to be set. For instance for virtual products, the session array is set this way which you can do the same by taking away the conditional on virtual products. And in that array just put your new language in to instead show free and such, just put request a quote.

For the payment page you can either set the session again OR you can modify the check/money order language to request a quote. This way your checkout process flow will go from no_account page to last step of order_confirmation. The one caveat though is that on the confirmation page you will want to edit the button for edit addresses to go straight to the checkout_shipping_address page and not checkout_shipping. Same for payment address.

Yes I'm gonna store a lot of articles in the database ! I will use the "Easy Populate" Plugin. And yes i want to make it possible for the customer to request a Quote on every constellation of products possible. No Prices online.

Mindsick:

Yes I'm gonna store a lot of articles in the database ! I will use the "Easy Populate" Plugin. And yes i want to make it possible for the customer to request a Quote on every constellation of products possible. No Prices online.

I think by asking if you need anything stored in the database it was intended to find out about storing information received from the customer, ie, do you need to store their mailing or email address, that type of thing. Not asking if you are going to use ZC to present your product(s).

Perhaps a better way to ask the question is what from the customer are you going to want/need to be captured in the database. (At least that was how I understood the question.)

mc12345678:

I think by asking if you need anything stored in the database it was intended to find out about storing information received from the customer, ie, do you need to store their mailing or email address, that type of thing. Not asking if you are going to use ZC to present your product(s).

Perhaps a better way to ask the question is what from the customer are you going to want/need to be captured in the database. (At least that was how I understood the question.)

oh well ! Sorry for my bad understanding, but help in the german Forums is very slight :/
So. It's not important to store any User-Data in the database as Long as i receive an email with at least Product list, email, Name and Adresse of the user !

double post, sry.

Mindsick:

oh well ! Sorry for my bad understanding, but help in the german Forums is very slight :/
So. It's not important to store any User-Data in the database as Long as i receive an email with at least Product list, email, Name and Adresse of the user !

Macht nichts. Deshalb Ich wiederschreiben die Frage habe. Echt, es einem Detschen forum gibt? Unglaublich.

Okay so that was my attempt to say: no problem. That's why I rewrote the question. Really, there's a german forum? Unbelievable.

mc12345678:

Macht nichts. Deshalb Ich wiederschreiben die Frage habe. Echt, es einem Detschen forum gibt? Unglaublich.

Okay so that was my attempt to say: no problem. That's why I rewrote the question. Really, there's a german forum? Unbelievable.

Haha nice german there. Google translat really sucks buddy :-)

So, i managed to set up the store BUT there is one more thing i can't handöle for now:

How, THE ########, do i disable the prices !?
I can't find it in articles. nor in customer details. There is only on option for Showroom. But as you know, thats not what im looking for...
Any help?

Mindsick:

Haha nice german there. Google translat really sucks buddy :-)

So, i managed to set up the store BUT there is one more thing i can't handöle for now:

How, THE ########, do i disable the prices !?
I can't find it in articles. nor in customer details. There is only on option for Showroom. But as you know, thats not what im looking for...
Any help?

OK guys, i found that option in "Admin>Configuration>List all articles

BUT....

The prices are still visible in the cart. I wat to get rid of that.

Since you do not need any of the information stored in the database, then you can just create a form. The easiest way to create one has been done in the contribution section by dr byte. The only thing you will want to add to that form is to add in the anti spam code that the newer versions have. With little tweaking of the coding you can remove and duplicate the fields you need.

And to display the products your customers want, this is the route I would do. I would still use the shopping cart page as it would gather all products added to the cart. Then for the checkout button you can either remove it and add another button OR change the link to that button to your custom form page. And on the form you can easily have a section on the form to show ALL the products in a separate section for review. This is easily done with "$_SESSION['cart']->get_products()". Basically, ZC already stores all the vital info you need in an array which you can output on the form and have it sent in an email to you and/or your customer.

But keep in mind that this route would not allow you to have the order info in the database if you choose to keep track of stock. This is why I mentioned if you need database syncing as you can go another route to achieve it as well.

Ok so what i decided to do, is:

I will have a "normal" shop.
There will be a cart.

But, there should not be any Prices visible on the entire Website.
Not even in the cart. Not even if you click on a product and see Details.

Then I will edit the files shown in the buy-process of the user.

So there will be a Shippingoption, but it will be totaly free. I'll edit the shipping-Option page in a way the customer can read "There will be a shipping after i calculated Prices for you etc., you get linked to payment-Option page"

The next paeg is the payment Option and i again edit it in a way the customer can read: "blabla no paying, i will send you a Quote with all Prices and relevant stuff".

And then, if customer finished the process, i want to get an email with a list of the products desired, customer Name, E-Mail adress

Is there a way to do that?
For now, i changed all "Show Prices" Options to false, but the customer still sees Prices, doesn't matter if he's registered or not......

Any help?

cheers,

Alex

Still confused. What prices are there to display if there are no prices entered? The method described to accomplish what it is you have asked for was to not enter any prices if I remember correctly. Besides, where is this "problematic site" to be able to provide more guidance on actions to take to set it as you desire?

mc12345678:

Still confused. What prices are there to display if there are no prices entered? The method described to accomplish what it is you have asked for was to not enter any prices if I remember correctly. Besides, where is this "problematic site" to be able to provide more guidance on actions to take to set it as you desire?

That is no Option, because if i just delete Prices from the products it Displays "0,00€".
So for me, that solution would be fine, but not for my Client... ;-)
He said "That looks awfull".
Too bad...

Mindsick:

That is no Option, because if i just delete Prices from the products it Displays "0,00€".
So for me, that solution would be fine, but not for my Client... ;-)
He said "That looks awfull".
Too bad...

As we have gone around about.
A) Have you downloaded the version of ZC that you are using from this website?
B) have you tried this setup not using any newly installed template (blank version of ZC)?
C) the program is designed to not display a price if setup and installed properly.

Check your pm for an address to try. I would publish it, but I'm not expecting this site to be around too much longer. I can post the settings here again, but if by removing the price from the product information is causing a value of 0 to be displayed on the customer side of the store, then there is something wrong with the setup/template. The program works to provide this "option" that you've been avoiding for three+ weeks.