easy way to add an add to cart button after install
 

Currently my add to cart button appears after a click on the product. I'd like to add an add to cart button to the summary page of products within my categories whilst allowing a click for extra details. I hope I have explained this correctly.
Is there a fairly simple way to do this?
I have achieved a number of small customisations with the help of many of the wizards within the Forum but I am self taught.
I look forward to some guidance as a search of the Forum didn't yield anything useful for me.

Lara Gibbons
www.chocolate-coated.com

X-Cart 4.1.10

Re: easy way to add an add to cart button after install
 

General Settings/Appearance options. Enable the 'buy now' button.

Re: easy way to add an add to cart button after install
 

Thanks for your reply. I have that button enabled, "Enable buy now button in products list". I though there must have been something else to it. Got any ideas?

As an aside I love how people like yourself answer what probably seem like dumb questions from people like me...


Lara Gibbons
www.chocolate-coated.com

X-Cart 4.1.10

Re: easy way to add an add to cart button after install
 

So when you enable that, they still don't show?

Re: easy way to add an add to cart button after install
 

My add to cart buttons only appear after you click on an image and go in for more details.
I thought that I must have missed something to get them activated. I probably could have activated them at some point when I installed my site, I don't really remember. After reading so many comments that they are useful on the category pages I thought that I would "turn them on". I have gone through the site settings and the enable buy now was already ticked. So I am not sure where to look next. With my limited knowledge I expected that may be I need to do something with the templates but I am always reluctant to play without some good directions. Lucky for me I can usually find them on the Forum.

Re: easy way to add an add to cart button after install
 

Yea, that sounds like they might have been edited out of the templates. Are you using a single column or multi column display on the category pages?

Re: easy way to add an add to cart button after install
 

Multi column, my products display 3 across.

Re: easy way to add an add to cart button after install
 

Ah, that might have been a 'bug' in that version of X-Cart. Look at customer/main/products_t.tpl. Find this:

{*** Uncomment it if you need 'Buy Now' button ***
{if $usertype eq "C" and $config.Appearance.buynow_button_enabled eq "Y"}
{include file="customer/main/buy_now.tpl" product=$products[product]}
{/if}
*** Uncomment it if you need 'Buy Now' button ***}

and replace with this:

{if $usertype eq "C" and $config.Appearance.buynow_button_enabled eq "Y"}
{include file="customer/main/buy_now.tpl" product=$products[product]}
{/if}