Delivery Date

Zen cart does not provide delivery date.
So how can I include delivery date option in the checkout process? So that customers would be able to pick a delivery date when placing orders.

Thanks to all contributors,
Mahdi

I also would like my customers to be able to choose a delivery date.

Does anyone have any suggestions to this? I need to also add shipping date to checkout process.

This is something I could use also. Anybody available to let us know how to do this?:blink:

I gave up on this.

In the comments section during the order process (bottom of checkout shipping page) I have as the heading above the text field:

Special Instructions or Comments About Your Order
Include a requested delivery or usage date, special request, colours, etc.

In Tool box look for the: TABLE_HEADING_COMMENTS to edit the field

We do flowers and it seems to work fine, as this is one industry where people can get a bit picky about delivery dates.

My concern is that I want to make sure it's not overlooked. It should be a required field.

dreamz:

My concern is that I want to make sure it's not overlooked. It should be a required field.

I suppose you could do what i have been putting off in hopes of finding a better solution: Make a required text field attribute on the product called "Requested Delivery Date" or something..

I really really need a feature like this as well. My vote is in.

mchahkandi:

Zen cart does not provide delivery date.
So how can I include delivery date option in the checkout process? So that customers would be able to pick a delivery date when placing orders.

Thanks to all contributors,
Mahdi

Why not simply create attribute delivery time? You than can set options for those times, and set values to these if there is a difference in cost.

Goshawk

Goshawk,

Do you mean to use this as a sort of shipping module? For example, if a customer needed a product in 2 days, to have the attribute add X amount to the product?

If so, what if the person lived far away and shipping was more than your predetermined attribute?

The other problem is that you have a delivery field for every single product when you are really going to just want to know the delivery date for the whole order. Setting shipping dates for products individually will also lead people to the expectation that they can set different delivery dates for different products in the order... Wouldn't it make more sense if a feature like this was added to the checkout process?

Please correct me if i misunderstood what you meant.. :smile:

Goshawk:

Why not simply create attribute delivery time? You than can set options for those times, and set values to these if there is a difference in cost.

Goshawk

have you seen this:
http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=54583&highlight=date+field
That may help

and this:
http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=82968&highlight=date+field

Goshawk

Hey Goshawk,

I did happen to see that post already. The code he used for that popup is very clearly in violation of the terms of service for the software. It is only free if it is used on a not-for-profit website... or if you abuse their TOS.

He also never followed up on his initial post back from December 2006!

I was hoping to avoid coding this myself, but it looks like that is what it might come down to!

Would you (or anyone else) happen to know of, or have any recommendations for, any open source popup calendar applications?

Thanks!!

Goshawk:

have you seen this:
http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=54583&highlight=date+field
That may help

Yep, hit up this one also. In fact i've commented on them already asking people to follow up on their progress.. :lookaroun

Goshawk:

and this:
http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=82968&highlight=date+field

Goshawk

There are various open script available, try to do a google search.
or otherwise read up on the spiffical feature in admin/modules/javascript/spiffycall that is the popup date selector for the new produt date available selector.