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[Jon]

That's a good point also. Something to think about.

What do you think the strengths and weaknesses of having a Recommends tab is?

The positive is that they know exactly what steps are involved in the process and know to expect the recommendations. This is why on my checkout I made it an actual tab.

[adpboss]

To be honest with you, as a customer, if I see an annoying upsell coming, I bypass it.

Just my 2 cents.

[groovico]

Yeah have to admit it confused me at first becuase I thought my cart suddenly had other products in it and when you have it showing no recomendations it's even more confusing because your not sure what you're looking at as a customer.

I'd put the recommendations on the view cart screen at the bottom or down the side as text links.

[adpboss]

Originally Posted by groovico

I'd put the recommendations on the view cart screen at the bottom or down the side as text links.

I'll second that. Thumbnails can be too confusing and stall a checkout. I like text links personally.

The idea is to push them through with the minimum of steps, and close the deal before they rethink the purchase.

[Jon]

Yeah, ideally the process would never not have recommended links, I just haven't finished the coding

Thanks for the feedback so far, any other feedback is appreciated.

[EnriqueHavoc]

Heres a few things:

1. Is it possible to merge the "method" step with the "shopping cart" step? Taking a whole step just to make that 1 choice seems unneccessary. Personally, i feel like it should be integrated into the same step as the actual "payment" step but it seems like this isnt possible the way the code is laid out

2. Similar to the way you have the tabbed news table on mixtapemp3.com(or boomers tabbed product options), it would be nice to have the "login" step not show the whole registration form by default. Having a clean "New member? Click here to register" link which after clicking would then drop down the entire form to fill out would work much better imo.... is that possible?

3. During the "payment" step, I think the tab for "method" should remain as a link in addition to the "change payment method" button within the page. In fact I think all the tabs should remain as links throughout the entire checkout process, but im not sure if this would cause any problems or not

4. Also during the "payment" step, i would like to put the customers information in multiple columns so as to more efficiently use the space on the page/


anyways thats just a few comments for now, i think its a great mod jon! i hope you keep improving it, ive already gotten a client to purchase it too

[jimmy_]

Originally Posted by mytreo.net

^ 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!

I think this is a excellent upselling mod and it should be added the the xcart software as a standard feature.


UPSELLING is really key in some / most business's

[Jon]

Thanks for the feedback. I've wanted to make the mod as easy and straight forward as possible for the general user to install, however some of what your asking could be customized.

Originally Posted by EnriqueHavoc

1. Is it possible to merge the "method" step with the "shopping cart" step? Taking a whole step just to make that 1 choice seems unneccessary. Personally, i feel like it should be integrated into the same step as the actual "payment" step but it seems like this isnt possible the way the code is laid out

The way the code is laid out your right, it's difficult, and would take some serious code changes.

Originally Posted by EnriqueHavoc

2. Similar to the way you have the tabbed news table on mixtapemp3.com(or boomers tabbed product options), it would be nice to have the "login" step not show the whole registration form by default. Having a clean "New member? Click here to register" link which after clicking would then drop down the entire form to fill out would work much better imo.... is that possible?

This isn't too much a big deal. You can just edit the customer/main/anon_checkout.tpl to include the tabs which display or hide the login/register information.

Originally Posted by EnriqueHavoc

3. During the "payment" step, I think the tab for "method" should remain as a link in addition to the "change payment method" button within the page. In fact I think all the tabs should remain as links throughout the entire checkout process, but im not sure if this would cause any problems or not

Originally I had these as links, however prior to login, they should not be able to select method, etc. Basically it provides a way to error the flow of things.

Originally Posted by EnriqueHavoc

4. Also during the "payment" step, i would like to put the customers information in multiple columns so as to more efficiently use the space on the page

You can edit your default invoice (I forget off the top of my head which template that page uses sorry) and take out the <pre> tags and set it up with HTML formatting.

If you need assistance feel free to post here or if your interested in custom work just PM me for details.

[a1deano]

Hi jon you seem to have quite a few happy customers, and you support seems better than xcart staff, ive only just brought xcart about 2 weeks ago v4.05 and know just installed v4.06 does your mode work on the new version, also i hate that checkout displays the picture can it be moded to only give text, showing what the customer has brought rather than showing the picture as well. many thanks Dean

[Jon]

Yeah it will work with the 4.0 branch no problems. Should there ever be any case of incompatibility I will create and distribute a new version and give to current customers free of charge.

To remove the thumbnail, this should work:

Open /skin1/customer/main/cart.tpl

REMOVE:

<td width=50 valign=top>
{include file="product_thumbnail.tpl" productid=$products[product].productid image_x=$products[product].image_x image_y=$products[product].image_y product=$products[product].product tmbn_url=$products[product].tmbn_url}
</td>

FIND:

<tr><td colspan=2><hr size=1 noshade></td></tr>

REPLACE WITH (remove the colspan=2):

<tr><td><hr size=1 noshade></td></tr>

Let me know if you have any other questions.