How to "Add to Cart" and "Continue Shopping&q

raebaca · #1 04-24-2005, 06:50 AM

Hello,

I need to have both the "Buy Now" and a "Add to Cart" button on the product page. The "Add to Cart" button adds the product to the cart but does not leave the product page.

I also need a "Continue Shopping" button in the cart which, in effect, takes the customer back to the product page to add additional products from the same category. I imagine that this might work:

<FORM>
<INPUT type="button" value="Continue Shopping" onClick="history.back()">
</FORM>

So my question is, how do I implement these?

balinor · #2 04-24-2005, 07:23 AM

Hi Rae, welcome to X-Cart. The contiue shopping button is an easy one, you can find a thread on it here:

http://forum.x-cart.com/viewtopic.php?t=1124

Need to think a little on how to get both buy now and add to cart on the product page....

raebaca · #3 04-25-2005, 09:00 AM

Hi, balinor. Thanks for the welcome. It's nice to be here.

I reviewed the thread and there are so many different ways of doing this (at least talked about on that page) that it is confusing as to what is the best way to go. Also some of the threads were quite old and I'm wondering if this hasn't been addressed better in the updated versions (since 2002).

At any rate, I unset the Redirect customer to cart in the General Settings and it works okay, although now I find that I would rather see the button say "Add to Cart" instead of "Buy Now" AND I'd like to see a pop-up that states that the item has been added to the cart.

Other than that, the last posts in that thread referenced changing script on a page but I can't see what page that would be. That was the post by elomibao on Dec 06, 2004. Do you know what page that is referring to? I think that might be the best way anyway to tackle this problem.

balinor · #4 04-25-2005, 12:48 PM

Unfortunately, those are still the best methods, even for the most current version of X-Cart. I would have thought they would implement it in new versions, but no such luck.

The script being referred to in that thread is cart.php.

You may also want to look at Jon's EZ Upsell mod, which handles the add to cart process quite nicely I think:

http://www.websitecm.com/store/customer/product.php?productid=84&cat=0&page=

raebaca · #5 04-25-2005, 02:25 PM

Thanks for the link. I noticed that they also sell a multiple upselling module. I am currently working on a client who has three software products and one has 12 modules that we need to upsell on it. Doing it the conventional way (add to cart - back - add another - back - etc.) it gets confusing for the customer. On top of that, two of the products also are available with or without support. I'm finding this cumbersome too setup. Do you think that Jon's Multiple Upselling Links for X-cart module ( http://www.websitecm.com/store/customer/product.php?productid=80 ) is a good module to handle this?

markwhoo · #6 04-25-2005, 02:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by raebaca

Thanks for the link. I noticed that they also sell a multiple upselling module. I am currently working on a client who has three software products and one has 12 modules that we need to upsell on it. Doing it the conventional way (add to cart - back - add another - back - etc.) it gets confusing for the customer. On top of that, two of the products also are available with or without support. I'm finding this cumbersome too setup. Do you think that Jon's Multiple Upselling Links for X-cart module ( http://www.websitecm.com/store/customer/product.php?productid=80 ) is a good module to handle this?

I use Jons mods and I cannot see how anyone can do business without them.

ezCheckOut, ezRecommends and ezUpsell are all terrific mods.

The ezRecommends mod add items to cart once the end user clicks to check out.

The ezUpsell is used in the cart itself once an item is added to cart, it shows the item added to cart and below this, it shows additional items the end user may be interested in.

I would get all three and add them to the cart if I were you, it is well worth the money it will generate in additional sales.

Just my 2 cents

raebaca · #7 04-25-2005, 02:36 PM

Your 2cents is worth a million.

I was asking specifically about the Multiple Upselling module though. There wasn't a demo for it, just a picture; but it looks like all the customer has to do is check the checkboxes and Update the order. Then everything would be added to the cart and then all they had to do was checkout. Is that correct? If so, I'll be off to order the module.

balinor · #8 04-25-2005, 02:37 PM

You can contact jon directly on the forum to ask him any specific questions. His username is jon.

markwhoo · #9 04-25-2005, 02:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by raebaca

Your 2cents is worth a million.

I was asking specifically about the Multiple Upselling module though. There wasn't a demo for it, just a picture; but it looks like all the customer has to do is check the checkboxes and Update the order. Then everything would be added to the cart and then all they had to do was checkout. Is that correct? If so, I'll be off to order the module.

The way it works is there are I think six items selected to show end user at a time. This could be modded to show more I am sure.

Once an item is selected, the end user does not leave the page they are currently on, it simply adds the items to the cart unless there are options that need to be made like color, style etc.

If you use this with ezCheckOut the customer is always aimed at checking out to complete the sale AND upsales are completed without redirecting end user away from the main goal of completing check out.

If you also get the ezRecommends, then there is a final attempt at adding other items to their purchase when end user clicks checkout. Like GoDaddy, it shows additional items that may be added to cart and again without redirecting away from the checkout process. So, this means all is done without pop up windows, redirects or anything to take the attention of the ned user away from the goal! CHECKOUT!!

Always checking out and always upselling!

Want to know more, ask me, I use them all... and would advise anyone else to use them all as well.

I thinkit just makes great sense!

raebaca · #10 04-28-2005, 10:35 AM

I decided to get the ezUpselling and the Multiple Upselling Links modules and they are great. So to answer my own question about how Multiple Upselling Links works for anyone else who is curious . . .

It is an admin module -- not a customer module. The benefit of this module is that it saves you lots of time by allowing you to add upselling products in groups to a product instead of individually. So if you have a number of products that you want to add multiple upselling products to, this is the module to save you time in that. After installing ezUpselling and Multiple Upselling Links, I was able to finish that part of the project in less than 15 minutes.