Adding a Second Shopping Cart with no Checkout functionality
 

The site I'm working on will have some products that will be sold through the site while other products will have to be phone ordered. However, I would like the user to be able to add these non-saleable items to a cart to track the cost of their phone orders.

My thinking is it's best/easiest to add a second cart (below the existing)for the items that I want to be phone ordered. After a quick look, it appears to be pretty involved.

Has anyone seen this done before or have any info/insight. I would greatly appreciate your input. 8O

josh

No sense in duplicating the site, with some minor backend modifications that would allow you to have an additional order status type, for example, I add a online purchasable item to my cart, as well as a phone only order item, the custom order status would be assigned to let you know its a mixed order. You could even add another order status field JUST for phone ordering products only. I've setup similar sites before who "pre-sell" items as well as in-stock items, its just another means of keeping a "status" on the orders your customers are placing.

hth. ;)