Guest Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 Hi according to research studies 41% of potential customers are scared about entering personal information on shops. I have imagined an "old economy" checkout for osCommerce: In login.php, the customer should get another option: Instead of logging in, osC will issue a good old order form in PDF format, pre-filled with the items that are already in the cart. The customer will then fill his personal and credit card information using his favourite fountain pen and send us the form by mail, fax or taxi ;-)... In a first step, the from would not include automatic shipping cost computation (we dont't have the data...-). Before beginnig the coding the hard way (i am not familiar with php and imagined recycling some snippets of the PDF delivery slip for that purpose) did someone already do something similar? Thank you. RIN67630 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WoodsWalker Posted January 11, 2009 Share Posted January 11, 2009 Hi Michel! I don't know of a contribution for this, although it might exist. I'm just posting to say that, since we put up our online shopping cart in July 2008, we have offered the option of printing a PDF order form that can be faxed or mailed (through a simple link). This was how we used to do business, so we thought some of our customers would still prefer it. 350 orders later ... not one person has chosen to use the PDF! Just my experience... ~Wendy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 11, 2009 Share Posted January 11, 2009 Hi according to research studies 41% of potential customers are scared about entering personal information on shops. I have imagined an "old economy" checkout for osCommerce: In login.php, the customer should get another option: Instead of logging in, osC will issue a good old order form in PDF format, pre-filled with the items that are already in the cart. The customer will then fill his personal and credit card information using his favourite fountain pen and send us the form by mail, fax or taxi ;-)... In a first step, the from would not include automatic shipping cost computation (we dont't have the data...-). Before beginnig the coding the hard way (i am not familiar with php and imagined recycling some snippets of the PDF delivery slip for that purpose) did someone already do something similar? Thank you. RIN67630 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
♥GLWalker Posted January 11, 2009 Share Posted January 11, 2009 Hi according to research studies 41% of potential customers are scared about entering personal information on shops. I have imagined an "old economy" checkout for osCommerce: In login.php, the customer should get another option: Instead of logging in, osC will issue a good old order form in PDF format, pre-filled with the items that are already in the cart. The customer will then fill his personal and credit card information using his favourite fountain pen and send us the form by mail, fax or taxi ;-)... In a first step, the from would not include automatic shipping cost computation (we dont't have the data...-). Before beginnig the coding the hard way (i am not familiar with php and imagined recycling some snippets of the PDF delivery slip for that purpose) did someone already do something similar? Thank you. RIN67630 There is a fax/phone in order sheet available in payment modules. It is not RC ready though. Follow the community build: BS3 to osCommerce Responsive from the Get Go! Check out the new construction: Admin Gone to Total BS! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 11, 2009 Share Posted January 11, 2009 I'm just posting to say that, since we put up our online shopping cart in July 2008, we have offered the option of printing a PDF order form that can be faxed or mailed (through a simple link). This was how we used to do business, so we thought some of our customers would still prefer it.350 orders later ... not one person has chosen to use the PDF! ~Wendy That is indeed interesting! Maybe the responsitivity to that option depends on the sold items as well: customers for artist books may behave differently than customers for hightech devices... :huh: Where was your option to print an order form placed? In login.psp? Regards rin67630 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WoodsWalker Posted January 11, 2009 Share Posted January 11, 2009 Where was your option to print an order form placed? In login.psp? Hi! I simply made another page just like my "Terms & Conditions" page and others in my left-hand menu, and called it "Offline Ordering". There was also a link to this page on my "Welcome" page. The "Offline Ordering" page contains a link to our original "Ordering" page on the older part of our web site (not in the catalogue). This older "Ordering" page contains the links to the PDF order forms. Alternatively, we could have simply placed HTML links to the PDFs right on the "Offline Ordering" page. You can put an HTML link to a PDF almost anywhere in your catalogue, as far as I know. There is a proper "PHP" way to do it, which I'm not an expert on, or you can do it in pure HTML. Maybe someone else can tell you the pros and cons. Happy designing! ~Wendy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 11, 2009 Share Posted January 11, 2009 I simply made another page just like my "Terms & Conditions" page and others in my left-hand menu, and called it "Offline Ordering". There was also a link to this page on my "Welcome" page. I have got another approach, you will probably appreciate how I handled this:: I will place the offline form as another login option and take over the shopping cart. It is still in development, therefore the header and trailer HTML placeholder in the screenshot. It's nearly finished (to 95%) http://www.germanartbooks.com/oldeconomy.png The contrib will come, but will take some time, i first have to upgrade the shop and include other mods... Regards RIN67630 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 11, 2009 Share Posted January 11, 2009 There is a fax/phone in order sheet available in payment modules. It is not RC ready though. Where? I screened the 35 pages of payment contribs and could not find any relevant one. Anyhow i am almost done: http://www.germanartbooks.com/oldeconomy.png RIN67630 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WoodsWalker Posted January 13, 2009 Share Posted January 13, 2009 For anyone following this thread who wants to know how to link to a document properly in PHP, I just noticed a thread that covers this, here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 14, 2009 Share Posted January 14, 2009 Hi according to research studies 41% of potential customers are scared about entering personal information on shops. I have imagined an "old economy" checkout for osCommerce: In login.php, the customer gets another option: Instead of logging in, osC issues a good old order form, pre-filled with the items that are already in the cart. The customer will then fill his personal and credit card information using his favourite fountain pen and send us the form by mail, fax or taxi ;-)... In a first step, the from does not include automatic shipping cost computation (we dont't have the data...-). I am online with this solution: Please take a look at http://www.germanartbooks.com, ! live store! Just put a couple of books in the cart and go to the checkout, choose the last checkout option. Make whatever you want with the generated order form, but if you send it to us, it will be a regular contract agreement... ;-) Your feed-back is appreciated. once i have got some time, i will make a contrib. Is someone interrested to implement it on an basic osCommerce store? It is about 4-5 files and tweaking a bit Login PHP. The order_form.php is generating the item table in the middle of the form. The header and footer are plain HTML which can be generated by any good HTML editor and be placed in the corresponding form.php language definitions. IMHO very easy to trim to your requs. Regards RIN67630 P.S. i am not happy about the ability to change quantities in the form, i'd prefer plain output. But i based this form on shopping_cart.php and could not easily replace that piece of code. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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