Attributes HOW-TO

Hi,

Let's say product A comes in colour combinations 1 through 20 BUT all 20 are not always in stock (which fluctuates fairly often)

Is there a way that the buyer can choose 2 or 3 options in order of preference, so that if their 1st pref is out of stock we supply their 2nd...3rd...etc

This is not an option at this time ...

You could set them up as checkboxes so the choices could be made but ...

1 no confirmation any choices were made

2 no confirmation of order

Or, you could do the above with comments in a text attribute

I am setting up a site with very few products for sale -- I primarily need a cart for the help with various checkout options that I don't want to deal with coding myself. In fact, I don't plan to use most of Zen Cart -- I'm just planning to incorporate Zen Cart forms into a few of my existing pages and have people sent to Zen Cart when they click a button to purchase a product.

At any rate, one of the most important items for sale is gift certificates. I would like users to be able to buy gift certificates in any amount. Is there any way that I can send an amount entered by the user to Zen Cart and have it process it? I would like it to record the transaction with the user-entered amount and if possible redirect users to a page where they can download their gift certificate (automatically generated based upon user input).

I suppose I could make an item that costs $1 and let users control the quantity, though that doesn't quite make sense, especially with the download. I tried having a text input field, but that doesn't seem to be able to be connected to the price.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Sincerely,

Greg Westin

http://www.gregwestin.com

I should add that I want to allow users to buy gift certificates based upon the products they would like to give someone else. Again, I think I can handle the coding outside of Zen Cart to make the jump from them selecting the products they want to getting the final price of the gift certificate, but I don't know how to send that price to Zen Cart for payment processing. Please, let me know if this is possible, or where I should start looking in my attempts to hack this functionality into existence!

Thank you,

Greg Westin

http://www.gregwestin.com

Greg-

Zen Cart is not designed to be used piecemeal for taking orders. It is designed to be the ecomm site.

Hi Kim,

So if I set things up so the Zen Cart is not used piecemeal, but is managing the whole site, is there a way to get it to do what I want (arbitrarily priced gift certificates, based upon user input)?

Thanks,

Greg

http://www.gregwestin.com

Not at this time.

You could get trick with the product_info page ...

Make the Product a Gift Certificate for $1.00

Make the spot where price normally shows to read something else or blank when products_id = the Gift Certificate

Make the Add to Cart read something different than the current text so it looks more like you are selecting a Gift Certificate amount than a qty ...

Again, you are making changes based on products_id = XX

Then, the product _info page runs one way for regular products and another for other products ...

If you do the Listings ... you would need to adjust the display for those too based on products_id

Takes a bit of work, but you can use the overrides for most all of this ... :)

I read through this thread and couldn't find anything that specifically addressed my problem...

I'm using Zen Cart as an event registration system, and so far I've been able to do almost everything I need to do with it. (These forums have been a tremendous help ^_^.) But I'm still running into a problem I can't seem to resolve.

For the even we're testing this for, we need the registrants to agree to a set of terms and conditions. The idea we've been working with is to have a checkbox attribute alogn the lines of "I have read and agreed to the terms and conditions" and putting the actual terms in the product description -- as is shown here. However, the bit we added to the end ("My checking the box (above) verifies that I have read an agree to the terms stated above. I understand that un-checked entries will not be accepted.") is pretty clunky, and gives me a headache when I think about charges going through without terms being accepted.... Is there a way to require that the box be checked so that the order will not be placed otherwise?

Thanks!

Anna

You could try using the TEXT as required ...

This does not guarantee they said yes but the had to mark an x in the box or something to add the product to the cart this way

Ajeh and Kim,

I think that what I'm going to do to work around this limitation is to set up the gift certificates as being priced at $0, with price attributes $1, $2, $3, $5, $10, $20, $30, $50, $100, $200, $300, $500, $1000. Then I can write a script that takes user input of any amount (up to $2221, I guess, unless I add more attributes), selects which attributes need to be selected, and submits that to Zen Cart. Perhaps I should do all of this within the Zen Cart framework, but that framework really doesn't fit my site.

Thanks for the help, again. Hopefully at some point I'll be back in the fold, using Zen Cart as it's meant to be used, and having it do what I want.

Greg

http://www.gregwestin.com

Ajeh:

You could try using the TEXT as required ...

This does not guarantee they said yes but the had to mark an x in the box or something to add the product to the cart this way
I think that's what we'll do, then, and validate by hand.

Yay I reached the end of the thread!! woohoo... but totally in shock my issue isn't covered..

...How do I change the colour of the attribute comment?...(bright red at the moment)

Ive searched through my stylesheet.css but can't seem to find anything..and I cant even view my own source (!?!) to find out what its classed as (know its off topic but if anyone could point me in the right direction for viewing my source i'd really appreciate it!!

thanks in advance to all you lovely experienced zenners

Hi All...I swear I searched, I did :) I made it thru 22 pages of replies before I skipped thru a few pages and Im stumped. My deal is this:

I have a site that is for scrapbooking. Until I get better at it, ALL of my stuff will be free. I have uploaded images and set up products and created attributes for them. I've uploaded my zipped file to the /download directory and I have a green circle in front of my filename, so all is good.

After doing all of this, no link shows up on my page. I've gone thru the step by step procedure here: http://www.zen-cart.com/modules/xoopsfaq/i...php?cat_id=8#71
and Im still at a loss.

On a side note..is there no way to have a direct download of a free product, without going thru the shopping cart?

Thanks for ANY help, I appreciate it,

Sydney

** Yay I reached the end of the thread!! woohoo... but totally in shock my issue isn't covered..
...How do I change the colour of the attribute comment?...(bright red at the moment)**

no wonder its not been covered...its pretty plain obvious :blink:

in your template stylrsheet.css change the attributes under

/* product_info **attribute comments ***/

.ProductInfoComments, TD.ProductInfoComments, SPAN.ProductInfoComments {
color: blahblahblah

doh! MUST OPEN EYES AND READ rather than thinking i'm looking at gibberish

OMG 46 pages to scan over to try find my problem :(

I have set up size attributes for my items (clothes) works great but, I cant see any way of keeping track of my stock for each size.
lets say I have 20 blue shirts in the cart.
there are 4 sizes, 5 of each.
when a customer buys one of the sizes the cart reduces the in stock to 19.

but, if say all 5 of one size sell out and no other sizes have been purchased the cart says there are 15 units in stock, customers can still buy the sold out size because the cart knows I have 15 units left, but it does not know how many of each size I have.

Am I making sense? if so is there a way of setting the quantity of each attribute?

the only other way round this I can see is to have a category called blue shirt and then have each size in that category as an individual item, which makes navigating the cart harder for my customers.

Eden-

Sorry, but stock by attributes is not yet available in the core. It is scheduled for a future release.

Is it possible to have attributes affect the prices of other attributes? For example, if I was selling Pizza:
Attributes: Size (Sm/Md/Lg/XL), Topping 1, Topping 2

Now, if the customer wanted a small pizza, the price of Sausage as Topping 1 would be +$1.00, but if the customer wants an extra large pizza, the Sausage as Topping 1 would be +$3.00.

-Shaun

Is Zen-Cart able to have attributes that depend on each other? For example, say I have a SIZE attribute and depending on which size they select, the COLOR attribute will have a different selection.

If they choose Large, it could have Blue and Yellow as a COLOR choice. If they choose Small, it could have Black and Green as a color choice.

Is this possible?

I have a question about some order options and wonder if Attrivutes would help at all.

My customer wants to sell their items in cases, and offer discounts for ordering multiple cases. Like:

Say each case holds 10 of the item.

CASES.......UNITS....................DISCOUNT............UNIT COST
1 to 9 .....10 to 90 units ........30% discount.........$15.95/ea
10-19.......100 to 190 units ...40% discount..........$14.95/ea
20-39.......200 to 390 units.....50% discount.........$13.95/ea

(there are shipping charges per case, but maybe that's another post, eh?)

Can Zen Cart support this and if it is the Attributes Controller, pls help me see how it applies.

TIA
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