Gift Wrapping Contribution

Allows you to break out gift wrapping costs in a separate order total summary; allows dynamic pricing of gift wrapping, etc.

Download here:
http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?main_page=product_contrib_info&cPath=40_47&products_id=407

Some help and instructions in README; more provided here:
http://www.thatsoftwareguy.com/zencart_giftwrap.html

Scott

This is an interesting contribution and I had been wanting a gift wrap option. I'm wondering, though - in the directions you say:

5. Note that if your products already have attributes, then instead
   of adding these fields one at a time, you may use one of the "Add ALL Option
   Values" features back on the Catalog->Option Name Manager screen.

Since I don't use many product attributes, it appear that I have to manually configure each product to include this gift wrap option, correct? Or can I apply the option to an entire category with one swoop?

Bad news: one at a time. Good news: it really shouldn't take more than ten or twenty seconds per product, and it's monkey work you can give to anyone. I'd loan you my monkey but he's busy debugging the code I broke. :smile:

Scott

Hello there,

Great Contribution. I have set it all up, and I am sure I spotted somewhere that you can display the giftwrap price on the shopping cart page, but I might have been seeing things. Is it possible to do so?

Many regards,

Heathenmagic

Not by default; order total modules are only shown on page 2 of the checkout.

Scott

Great mod,

im using it to display 8 different types of gaftwrap and 8 greeting cards.

However i have one problem, I want to offer my customers free shipping if the order value including gift wrap and cards is over £75 at the moment it only takes into account the value of the product is there anyway to include the price of the gift wrap and cards in the subtotal ?

URL

You'd have to write custom logic.

Scott

Thanks for the reply, im a bit of a noob i havnt a clue what custom logic is ive managed to get as far as i have with my website by following posts on the forum, reading books and other web resources.

This sounds a little complicated i think ill make do with what ive got for now.

Hi Scott.

Thanks for the great contribution. I have been testing it out and it works like a charm for normal products.

I am however finding that if the product is free (i.e. no charge) but I still want to charge for gift wrapping I cannot get the customer to pay for the wrapping.

In other words if I apply the gift wrap attribute to a free product and add it to the shopping cart, when I get to the checkout payment screen it show the totals summary correctly (zero for product, and gift wrap fee of $2) but no payment modules are shown. It is almost like some or other total somewhere is still zero so ZenCart does not show any payment modules.

I can get it to display payment modules by assigning a value to the gift wrap attribute on the product but this obviosly throws the total out (and voids one of the major reasons for using the contrib - makes it hard to change on a global scale).

Is there anything I can change or code I can add to get the payment modules to show for a free product?

Thanks again.

Regards.
Duwane

Duwane, can you try changing the product is free to false, keep the 0.00 price,
and try both settings of priced by attributes to see if this works?

Hi Scott. I tried all the things you asked me to and still get the same result (i.e. no payment modules) unless I assign a value of at least 1 cent (0.01) to the attribute.

The settings of my gift wrap attribute are as follows:
Used For Display Purposes Only: No
Attribute is Free When Product is Free: No
Default Attribute to be Marked Selected: No
Apply Discounts Used by Product Special/Sale: No
Include in Base Price When Priced by Attributes Yes
Attribute Required for Text: No

<edit> Forgot to add that I did try other attribute settings too </edit>

Have you tried to replicate the problem as I am pretty sure it will show up for you too?

Do you know where the code is in ZenCart that actually decides whether or not to diplay payment modules? I have tried to find it to trouble shoot but when you start getting into base class and init includes I get lost :blink:

I will look at it this weekend and get back to you as soon as I can.

Scott

I did some more testing.

If you have the The Zen Cart FREE CHARGE CARD payment method enabled it is the only method that shows in this scenario. I will take a look at its code later today and see if I can come up with a work around for this problem.

I will let you know.

Thanks.
Regards.
Duwane

Hi Scott.

Any luck yet? I have been trying to find a solution but to no avail... :frusty:

Suspect this is not possible without core changes.

I thought as much but I am not afraid of a few core changes :smile: Could you point me in the right direction as I would really like this to work.

Thanks.

Regards.
Duwane

My bad - no code change required. Here's what I did:
Catalog->Categories/Products

• product is free: no
• set price to $0.00.
• priced by attributes: no

Catalog->Attributes Controller

• add attribute, setting price + some amount.

Works fine.
Scott

Hi, first thanks for the great module. Is there a way to instead of the gift wrapping option showing up on each individual product page to have it in the shopping cart on the shipping info page?

Not without a bunch more coding.

Hiya Scott,

I've noticed this question asked before, but I never found the answer:

When setting the Gift Wrap attribute to each item, instead of putting $4.00 under Price, I put it under One-Time. This helps if let's say a customer selects Gift Wrap option and is charged only once for the specific item.. however, what I would need is the following setup:

1-3 items = $4.00 overall gift wrap charge
4-6 items = $6.00 " " "
7-10 items = $10.00 " " "
and so on...

I know this method works for shipping charges for example... darned I would know how to code this in. advice? Thanks.

Tatiana