Update button is overlooked

[knifeman]

Hi all,

 

Several customers have complained that they cannot change the contents of the shopping cart. Some have checked out with one item and sent an e-mail requesting me to increase their order to 2 or 3 or whatever they wanted originally. I have to admit, when I first installed oscommerce, I overlooked the update button too.

 

Anyone else have this problem? What was your solution?

I changed the color of my update button and added some text directly below it. I am not happy with the new button color and I am unsure about leaving it or changing it back to the store color. You can see what I have done here:

My Webpage

I sure would appreciate the advice of other store owners that saw fit to make a modification on the shopping cart page.

 

Tim

[squeekit]

hi knifeman,

without getting an actual account i tested the update button - both increasing quantity and removal - both seemed to work fine - note i did not proceed past that page however...

 

the color of you buttons aren't bad - perhaps the red is slightly too dark making it somewhat hard to see the word "update" on that button...

 

however - don't think you'd want to merely lighten the red - bringing it closer to a pink - maybe you could take it into an orangy yellow direction - and maybe greenify the 'continue' button - but really, no biggy.

 

i don't think changing colors of these buttons would have any effect on their functionality....

 

 

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hmm i wonder if customers think if they press 'continue' it will update????

 

to address that possibility you might want to pop the continue button under 'update' button and update notice....

 

(???)

[pyramids]

I believe this is only happening in the shopping_cart.php page - is this correct?

 

I could write a javascript -

 

When a customer changes the quantity in the box, the javascript will update and refresh the page

 

or

 

when the quantity changes it opens a small javascript alert window

 

Let me know what you think

[Guest]

Look here:

http://www.almatcomputers.co.uk/store/ (test store)

 

if you add the product and view checkout, you can see theres ways around this, either using a drop down list, or text header, both contribs are found in the contrib section

[pyramids]

I just installed this mod, works great!

 

http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contri...update+reminder

[abra123cadabra]

I'd have to dig in the contribs but I had the same problem when I set up my shop and it was quite annoying. Well, I would just assume it updates automatically when I hit continue.

 

There is a contrib out there that updates automatically when you press either continue shopping or checkout. Let's see if I can find it quickly...

 

Ok, took a while but here it is: http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contri...checkout+update

 

abra

[knifeman]

I have not been able to get on the forum until just now. Thanks for all the suggestions. I think I like the dropdown as seen in the test store by Stuart the best.

 

I should have known there would be a mod already written.

 

Tim