Alternative products?

[sneakyfoxdk]

I just started using osCommerce and found it to be a solid solution with lots of nice features. There is one thing that would be nice to have though:

 

To have alternative products that are managed and appear just like normal products, except they link to an external webpage and therefore cannot be added to the shopping cart. Also they have no price.

 

I figured there might already be a module/contribution that can handle this? Or should I try to work it out myself?

 

Thanks in advance.

sneakyfoxdk

[Guest]

Hans,

 

You can add information pages, spec sheets or have PDF files accessible from the product information page using the default URL feature available when you create a new product. You can also use Product Tabs contribution to add more information about the product.

 

 

These two options are more desirable than linking to another website because of the possibility of losing the OSCID when exiting the catalog and then returning to complete a purchase.

 

 

 

 

Chris

Edited September 16, 2010 by DunWeb

[sneakyfoxdk]

Thanks for the reply, Chris.

 

But in this case the customer doesn't need to return to my site after purchase; the purchase is done on another website (for some of my products). So I guess I do need something not part of osCommerce by default?

 

Regards

[Guest]

Hans,

 

You could add banners to link to other sites, you can add information pages to other sites but why you would consider driving traffic away from your site is confusing.

 

 

 

Chris

[sneakyfoxdk]

Point taken :rolleyes:

 

The other sites are affiliates of the same company, so the traffic really stays within our boundaries, so to speak.

[Guest]

In that case, then banners would be perfect.

 

 

 

Chris

[sneakyfoxdk]

Appearantly banners have been disabled in the template I'm working with. There is no contribution/add-on that can help me out?

 

Thanks for all your help.