xearoth Posted October 19, 2006 Posted October 19, 2006 Hey guys, I have a fireplace shop website in which we have three main products to build a fireplace: mantel firebox gas logs Now my only problem is we do not want anyone to buy any of these seperate, so therefore they have to buy all three together or not at all. What is the best way I can make it where if somebody goes to buy a mantel they have to buy two things with it or they will not let you check out? Anybody have any suggestions? thanks ahead of time
wizardsandwars Posted October 19, 2006 Posted October 19, 2006 Why not make them just one product? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTE: As of Oct 2006, I'm not as active in this forum as I used to be, but I still work with osC quite a bit. If you have a question about any of my posts here, your best bet is to contact me though either Email or PM in my profile, and I'll be happy to help.
xearoth Posted October 19, 2006 Author Posted October 19, 2006 Wizard thanks for the suggestion and I wished I could do that but we interface an as/400 into the mix so before hand we have to preload the as400 with all of the models invidually which brings the weight, inventory, etc. Then when an order is placed it is automatically brought into the as400 (our main frame). so therefore i have to have all the information correct and the only way to do this is to have all these as seperate pieces adn make them constraint on the website that they ahve to buy 3 to make the combo. Any other suggestions?
wizardsandwars Posted October 19, 2006 Posted October 19, 2006 I don't think there's anything out there like that currently. I think you'd just have to build a condition into the shopping cart that if one of those three products exists in the shopping cart, then all three products must exist in the shopping cart in order to proceed. I'd probably mimic the error that occurs in the shopping cart if a prodcut is out of stock, and the admin has chosen not to allow checkout of a product if a product is out of stock. I'd copy this entire section of the shopping cart, and change the condition that it happens. I've added conditions to the shopping cart page before, but haven't done this exact thing. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTE: As of Oct 2006, I'm not as active in this forum as I used to be, but I still work with osC quite a bit. If you have a question about any of my posts here, your best bet is to contact me though either Email or PM in my profile, and I'll be happy to help.
wizardsandwars Posted October 19, 2006 Posted October 19, 2006 BTW, how are you interfacing the AS/400? Are you importing products from the as/400 into your store? Or are you exporting sales form your store into the AS/400? Or both? I'm only curious becasue I used to do a little RPG/Cobolt programming on an AS/400, and I'm familiar with using AS/400 Query to create text files to import into a datbase on another server (Sybase at the time, and then later on MS SQL Server) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTE: As of Oct 2006, I'm not as active in this forum as I used to be, but I still work with osC quite a bit. If you have a question about any of my posts here, your best bet is to contact me though either Email or PM in my profile, and I'll be happy to help.
squeekit Posted October 20, 2006 Posted October 20, 2006 what's the site - it seems such would be pretty easy, particularly if the three types of items are divided among three distinct categories (specifically top cats) -- the main portion of the checkout could then be copied and pasted twice (making three cart product listing boxes) - THEN edit each to run and act on a unique querry (per its cat) - with notice and performed check that each of the three product types must be existing within the order - but without code or site - or better descriptrion of site i can't really help you out more than that... oh yes - don't forget wizardsandwars' question ;)
dittones Posted October 20, 2006 Posted October 20, 2006 Xearoth, Why not explain the requirements on the product page and then provide link to the other products that you want them to buy...If you explain clearly...and an additional edit you could count the order total on check out to create an error message when the go thru checkout not letting them go any further... I hope this helps, dittone.com Roman
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