Easy Checkout Mod for X-Cart 3.5.x and 4.0.x

rjcbear · #**171** 10-18-2004, 09:14 AM

Jon,

In your recomend mod for the checkout are you going to display thumbnails or just text links?

If you are using the thumbnails I think will be a great idea if you display them in the rigth or left side of cart from the begin and not adding an extra tab to the process. Use the thumbnail as a link to add to the cart.

Kind regards,
Ricky

Jon · #**172** 10-18-2004, 10:24 AM

^ That's a real good suggestion. The problem would come when the products have product options. In order to have an add to cart on that page, then the product options would have to be selected also. Any ideas on how to get around that?

rjcbear · #**173** 10-18-2004, 03:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Jon

^ That's a real good suggestion. The problem would come when the products have product options. In order to have an add to cart on that page, then the product options would have to be selected also. Any ideas on how to get around that?

Now I will have to think about that one now.

mytreo.net · #**174** 10-18-2004, 05:22 PM

^ you could use something from this upselling mod, it displays the thumbnails etc and if options are required then "add to cart" goes to the product details page instead.

http://forum.x-cart.com/viewtopic.php?t=6005&highlight=upselling+mod

I managed to integrate the checkout addon into the main template and I also figured out a bit more about smarty too, thanks much

Good luck with finishing the mod!

Jon · #**175** 10-19-2004, 03:02 PM

Excellent

I'm considering 2 different options, 1 is to have a recommends tab, the other is to have a recommends sidelist.

Either way, it would use thumbnails, with an add to cart and a view details button.

The view details would open a small popup window with product details only.

Any thoughts?

rjcbear · #**176** 10-19-2004, 04:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jon

Excellent

I'm considering 2 different options, 1 is to have a recommends tab, the other is to have a recommends sidelist.

Either way, it would use thumbnails, with an add to cart and a view details button.

The view details would open a small popup window with product details only.

Any thoughts?

The sidelist with thumbnails I LIIIIIIIIIIIKEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE IIIIIIIIIIIIIT!!!

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Jon · #**177** 10-19-2004, 06:21 PM

^ Rightside or left side or optional ?

adpboss · #**178** 10-19-2004, 06:23 PM

right side, left side, top, bottom optional

i been meaning to post some ideas on this but I have been busy, and X-Cart is ticking me off so I'm not a big fan of the forums right now.

Jon · #**179** 10-19-2004, 06:49 PM

Keeping in mind I'm having this work with the ezcheckout mod only because I can't justify doing any work within the x-cart checkout itself

I also don't want it too complicated, as I want to give as little support as possible, and have it as straight forward to use as possible.

Displaying products on the top I don't think is too practical as it would get in the way, and the bottom wouldn't be very viewable. So I'm thinking I would do rightside or left side recommendations as options. This also keeps things in 1 template. If people want it at top or bottom I'll let them know how to do it via this forum but it won't be supported in the actual mod.

Products would be 1 column down either side, with the number of products configurable.

Where to pull the products from would have 2 options:

1) Takes the products in the cart and views order history to pull products that were previously purchased at the same time as those products. Then of those products it would randomly pull the number of items configured to show through each step of the checkout process. If there were no items purchased at the sametime as the products in the cart it would default to option #2.

2) Option #2: The config file will hold an array of product numbers and randomly pull the configured amount of those products through each stage of the checkout. Of course if you have 4 productid's in the array, and configure to show 4 products at a time, you will have the same products on each step of the checkout.

Another option would be to use the products in the cart to pull from the upselling links but due to the amount of work in configuring those products to begin with I'm not a big fan of it

Anybody interested in this option?

As mentioned, adding products to your cart will keep you on the same stage of the checkout process, but will update your minicart in the top right, and display an added to cart message. This is to not disturb the flow.

Viewing product details will open a small popup window with a close button. Again, as to not disturb the flow.

Any other feedback/options/suggestions?

adpboss · #**180** 10-19-2004, 06:52 PM

Just tossing around some ideas here but, how about a redirect page that is hidden from the top tabs.

Kinda like a stealthed checkout step.

I really think that adding them around the checkout breaks the idea of the EZ checkout. It's distracting from pushing them through the funnel process.

If they hit a page with a continue checking out link, then that might be much more effective.