Jump to content
  • Checkout
  • Login
  • Get in touch

osCommerce

The e-commerce.

Is This Possible?


Mort-lemur

Recommended Posts

Posted

Hi,

 

Some of the products I sell are seasonal, so I am taking deposits for a delivery after Xmas.

 

I thought I had this figured out, in that I have listed the items at £10.00 (the deposit value) and in the text of the item explaining that this is a deposit only and that when the items are available to ship I will inform the customer to complete the rest of the transaction. (i will put the items in his shopping cart using manual order editor)

 

However, there is some confusion, as when he looks at the category for these items - they are all listed as £10.00 so if he clicks the Buy -Now button he is expecting to pay £10.00, and the item is added to his cart.

 

Is there a way I can add some text after the price of specific products such as "£10.00 - Deposit Only" so that this shows in the category page?

 

 

 

Sorry if a little long winded, I can pm a link if anyone would like to take a look and see what I mean.

 

Thanks

Now running on a fully modded, Mobile Friendly 2.3.4 Store with the Excellent MTS installed - See my profile for the mods installed ..... So much thanks for all the help given along the way by forum members.

Posted

sure.. just fine the code in product_listing.php or product_info.php that is for the price and then just add your text next to it.

 

So fine this

<?php echo $products_price; ?>

 

and replace with this

 

<?php echo $products_price; ?> - price is deposit price

A great place for newbies to start

Road Map to oscommerce File Structure

DO NOT PM ME FOR HELP. My time is valuable, unless i ask you to PM me, please dont. You will get better help if you post publicly. I am not as good at this as you think anyways!

 

HOWEVER, you can visit my blog (go to my profile to see it) and post a question there, i will find time to get back and answer you

 

Proud Memeber of the CODE BREAKERS CLUB!!

Posted

Thanks Lindsay,

 

But would that not add the text to all my prices?

 

Only about 5% of my products fall into the deposit scenario.

 

Thanks

Now running on a fully modded, Mobile Friendly 2.3.4 Store with the Excellent MTS installed - See my profile for the mods installed ..... So much thanks for all the help given along the way by forum members.

Posted

So do you want to bill £10.00 now, and make sure the customer gets billed the balance some time later? You would be sure to want to list both parts of the price. As for listing "price is deposit price", if you have a small number of items, you might write a function to take the product ID and provide a deposit amount (-1 for non-deposit items). If deposit is > -1, show the deposit and balance, with the "price is deposit price". Otherwise show the normal price. On the other hand, if lots of products are involved, I'd add a new table column for the deposit amount.

Posted

Yes that would add it to ALL of your stuff> it seems there are deposit modules you can install

http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,4016

 

Or you can always just use HTML in the product description to write, in bold red text " THIS PRICE IS A DEPOSIT" and then install the product description in product listing addons

A great place for newbies to start

Road Map to oscommerce File Structure

DO NOT PM ME FOR HELP. My time is valuable, unless i ask you to PM me, please dont. You will get better help if you post publicly. I am not as good at this as you think anyways!

 

HOWEVER, you can visit my blog (go to my profile to see it) and post a question there, i will find time to get back and answer you

 

Proud Memeber of the CODE BREAKERS CLUB!!

Posted

Expanding on Phils' point:

 

"On the other hand, if lots of products are involved, I'd add a new table column for the deposit amount. "

 

Have an extra radio button on the product adding page in admin saying "deposit price: ( ) yes ( ) no"

 

Selecting no (which would be default), would just be a full price product.

 

Selecting yes would show the extra needed on the product info page, and elsewhere (wherever the price is shown).

 

Quite a simple way to do things, and extensible in the future.

Archived

This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.

×
×
  • Create New...