mjhampstead Posted October 22, 2009 Posted October 22, 2009 Hi all I am trying to help a friend decide on a shopping cart for his estalished business (not online). Here is the stumbling block I seem to not be able to resolve. Can this be done in oscommerce without requiring additional coding? 1. select an image (from thousands) 2. select a garment (from about 20 styles, each with different pricing) 2b. plus garment attributes like size, color, etc. I look forward to learning from your experience as to how to manage this. Thanks in advance.
jigga1234 Posted October 22, 2009 Posted October 22, 2009 Hi all I am trying to help a friend decide on a shopping cart for his estalished business (not online). Here is the stumbling block I seem to not be able to resolve. Can this be done in oscommerce without requiring additional coding? 1. select an image (from thousands) 2. select a garment (from about 20 styles, each with different pricing) 2b. plus garment attributes like size, color, etc. I look forward to learning from your experience as to how to manage this. Thanks in advance. Not 100% certain but you could always do this. 1. Have all your images as products you can then group them into categories if some are similar (this would also help searching) you dont have to set a price so can be included in the cost of the T-shirt 2. Have all the T shirts as products you can easily set the colours and sizes of these using osc. So if a customer wants to order for example a shirt with say a picture of Australia on it they would go to the images they want first and order that cost or no cost. Then they would go to the T shirt they want for example yellow size medium and order that. You would then recieve an order on your back office for 1 Yellow size medium shirt and one Australia image. You could then easily make the shirt up and send it out to the customer. The other way is to set all the images as attributes so that when a person selects the t shirt they would select the image when selecting size and colour etc. The downside to this is that you would have a huge dropdown list of options and no real way of telling what the pictures were. Not sure if this is exactly what you want and if there is an easier way I am sure someone will read this and let you know. Was this advice any good? Sorry just had another thought If you gave every image the attributes of the T-shirts starting with the styles you can easily increase or decrease the cost in the attributes so if style 1 is £10 more than style 2 your drop down would read style 1 +£10 style 2 Then you can select colours in another field and then sizes in another. You would end up with a page which had the image on it and the ability to chose the style (the cost will increase or decrease if you need it to) plus the colours and sizes. You would then recieve just one order saying Australia Image Style 2 size medium colour yellow. This might be a better way hope this helps.
mjhampstead Posted October 22, 2009 Author Posted October 22, 2009 Not 100% certain but you could always do this. 1. Have all your images as products you can then group them into categories if some are similar (this would also help searching) you dont have to set a price so can be included in the cost of the T-shirt 2. Have all the T shirts as products you can easily set the colours and sizes of these using osc. So if a customer wants to order for example a shirt with say a picture of Australia on it they would go to the images they want first and order that cost or no cost. Then they would go to the T shirt they want for example yellow size medium and order that. You would then recieve an order on your back office for 1 Yellow size medium shirt and one Australia image. You could then easily make the shirt up and send it out to the customer. The other way is to set all the images as attributes so that when a person selects the t shirt they would select the image when selecting size and colour etc. The downside to this is that you would have a huge dropdown list of options and no real way of telling what the pictures were. Not sure if this is exactly what you want and if there is an easier way I am sure someone will read this and let you know. Was this advice any good? This sounds really good.......... except LOL what if the client orders more than one item. The second item being a different image on a yet different garment style? In the shopping cart I envision it being difficult to associate which image goes with what garment. That's really where I'm stuck. I do appreciate your input. I may install oscommerce a fool around some. Yes, categories as well as sub categories would be mandatory for the images.
jigga1234 Posted October 22, 2009 Posted October 22, 2009 That is no problem if you imagine that all your images are products with just the attributes of a t shirt attached then once one item is placed in the shopping cart you have the option to proceed to checkout or continue shopping if you then wanted to order a different shirt you would go to the new image and complete the choices again. You would then be able to check out and you would receieve an order for however many new images(shirts) and their options that you want. :) Did you read the last part of my first answer? Sorry just had another thought If you gave every image the attributes of the T-shirts starting with the styles you can easily increase or decrease the cost in the attributes so if style 1 is £10 more than style 2 your drop down would read style 1 +£10 style 2 Then you can select colours in another field and then sizes in another. You would end up with a page which had the image on it and the ability to chose the style (the cost will increase or decrease if you need it to) plus the colours and sizes. You would then recieve just one order saying Australia Image Style 2 size medium colour yellow. This might be a better way hope this helps.
mjhampstead Posted October 22, 2009 Author Posted October 22, 2009 That is no problem if you imagine that all your images are products with just the attributes of a t shirt attached then once one item is placed in the shopping cart you have the option to proceed to checkout or continue shopping if you then wanted to order a different shirt you would go to the new image and complete the choices again. You would then be able to check out and you would receieve an order for however many new images(shirts) and their options that you want. :) Thank you again. Slowly getting my head wrapped around this quandary I've been struggling with for some time. I'll try to remember to report back on my experience with this. LOL
mjhampstead Posted October 22, 2009 Author Posted October 22, 2009 Glad I could help. OK, here's the other niggle: From an inventory standpoint, it is the garment selected that is critical rather than the image. Will my friend be able to find specific fields in csv output that includes just that bit? How about interfacing OSC with accounting like QuickBooks? I shudder at the though of redundant data entry or awkward workarounds.
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