bacon tacon Posted November 20, 2002 Posted November 20, 2002 I may get for flamed for posting here - 'cause I only found osCom today and haven't tried it, and was on the brink of buying an eshop. I've visited several osCom stores and spent an hour reading this forum, and if I was selling shop software I'd be worried. From what I see - the default behaviour of osCom when customers click on a product to buy, is to direct them to the basket (just like Amazon). Several commercial products I looked at don't do this (JShop, Erol). Instead, a little window pops up announcing that the item has been placed in the basket. 1. there is no delay as a new page loads. 2. the customer is not taken away from the products. This feels to me like a better user experience. When I shop in the supermarket, I don't stick my head in the basket or rush over to the checkout between every purchase. And navigating back and forth between product and basket pages takes time, which risks lost sales. Can osCom be configured to do these popups? I realize that pop-ups may be problematic - if users have javascript disabled or are running anti-popup applications, but there may be other ways of achieving the same end without using popups.
Guest Posted November 21, 2002 Posted November 21, 2002 Oscommerce doesn't do the popups by default though there may be a contribution to do this. It does allow you to set it up so that when something is added to the cart, it stays on that page and just refreshes. What Oscommerce does do by default is show your shopping cart to you at all times.
bacon tacon Posted November 21, 2002 Author Posted November 21, 2002 Ok. Thanks for that. Well, I'm certainly gonna give it a test drive.
jhilgeman Posted November 23, 2002 Posted November 23, 2002 LMAO! "Got the Cheerios!" *running to the checkout* *pant, pant* *sets down Cheerios on counter* "Gotta get milk now!" *sprint* *pant, pant* "Good - got the last one." *grabs milk and runs back to checkout.* *sets down milk next to Cheerios.* "What's next... strawberries!" *running off to the fruit section* I agree - it is a major pain to go to the checkout each time. However, since adding a product to the basket is only one line that is called in application_top.php, I'm sure it would be easy to create a contribution that has a pop-up window that runs the line of code to add the product to the basket, and lets you shut down the window right after that. - Jonathan Download osCommerce Order Editor v1.2 Here: http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,1435
xaraya Posted November 23, 2002 Posted November 23, 2002 You mean simply have shopping_cart.php as a pop up window? whoah... that's shouldn't be to hard as a hack :D ... *grabs copy of javascript for dummies*
KCDTX Posted November 23, 2002 Posted November 23, 2002 If you decide to write the hack, please be sure to post. A lot of are tired of having customers running with their Cheerios! :D
mocara Posted July 10, 2003 Posted July 10, 2003 One slight problem with the pop-up windows on Erol is that a lot of Firewall software blocks them. This causes your site to break. I suppose you can use new target window link, rather than pop-up? Any of you guys implement the pop-ups?
♥monte22 Posted July 15, 2003 Posted July 15, 2003 Wow, this would be a great mod if someone actually is going to take the time to create it! I'm sure there would be many thankful osC users out there.
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