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Topic: Inquiry Cart
Posted By: artdepot
Subject: Inquiry Cart
Date Posted: 30-September-2010 at 9:00pm
Hello,
 
Considering going with Product Cart but wanted to find out if you can also use it as an inquiry cart. This is where customers can add products to an Inquiry cart and submit them using the check out. Then we can contact them regarding their interest.
 
Thanks for any help
Greg



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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 30-September-2010 at 11:01pm
So is this rather like requesting a quote?

I suppose this could be accomplished by simply setting up a custom offline payment option, rather like Purchase Order. Just name it in a way that would make sense to the end user. That would all be "out of the box" with ProductCart.


Posted By: artdepot
Date Posted: 01-October-2010 at 12:57pm
Sounds easy enough as long as we can remove the pricing from the items but keep the add to cart button. Can all of the cart language be customized (ex. Add to Cart, Check Out, Submit Order, etc?) 


Posted By: Greg Dinger
Date Posted: 01-October-2010 at 1:04pm
There is a file called languages.asp which contains most of the text that appears publicly.  You can edit that file as you see fit.
 
The text that appears on the buttons would have to change in the same manner that you would edit any graphic.
 
Question:  Will all products in this store be for quoting, or only selected products?  Are there cases where one may request a quote or purchase the product as a result of some choice action?  Could you expand  upon this a bit so that we understand the context of what you are trying to accomplish?


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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 01-October-2010 at 1:49pm
Removing the pricing would require some customization, but I'm pretty sure that if you never want it to display, it could probably be all handled with CSS.

However, yeah, as Greg requests, it would be nice to have a fuller understanding of exactly what you're looking to accomplish here.


Posted By: artdepot
Date Posted: 01-October-2010 at 2:09pm
Thanks for the replies. All of our products can be fully customized so the pricing is not displayed for any of the items on this particular site. On our current site, clients can go online and add items to an "inquiry cart". Then they can "submit the cart" for quotation. So we would not show any pricing at all.  This is what we are after.
 
I should note that we would be using the apparel add-on for clothing.


Posted By: Greg Dinger
Date Posted: 01-October-2010 at 2:21pm
Suggest you use EI's demo store.  Create a testing category for yourself, introduce a few products with 0 price.  Create a custom payment method, as Sean indicated, called "give me a quote".  Store settings should be set to allow checkout even if no shipping can be calculated. Once that is done, view your sample products in the store and you should be able to push them through checkout as you seem to require.

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Posted By: artdepot
Date Posted: 01-October-2010 at 2:42pm

Thanks for your help! Just a couple more questions if I may:

- Can you easily disable the shipping module?
- Can you add custom fields during check out (ex. Preferred method of contact, Requested Delivery Date)?


Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 01-October-2010 at 2:45pm
Yeah, that sounds like it should work for you, and then you should be able to handle not having the prices show anywhere through the process using CSS display:none;

You can access the demo stores from here: http://www.productcart.com/addon-apparel-demo.asp%20 - http://www.productcart.com/addon-apparel-demo.asp


Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 01-October-2010 at 2:49pm
Yes to both.

Greg essentially answered the first question: you just wouldn't have a shipping method set up and then set the cart to allow orders to go through with no shipping calculated.


Posted By: Greg Dinger
Date Posted: 01-October-2010 at 2:50pm

If weight is zero, no shipping will be calculated.

Please look in the wiki, under the customer topic, at the custom fields that may be associated with such a customer.  Those values are stored at the customer level.
 
Then look at the product options topic, and note that you can define a field that will appear on the product page and prompty for an entry.  Those values are stored at the order line item value.

Again, you can model examples of these fields in the demo store.
If you require something that is outside of those features, then you are looking at custom programming.  As an example, you could look at http://www.tastefulgarden.com - www.tastefulgarden.com for an example of handling a requested delivery date.  Place any item in the cart and head for checkout.  You cannot get past viewcart.asp without selecting your preferred shipping date.  There are other ways that we have tackled this including simply inputting a date with a JS calendar module.  We used to have it that way in this site until the merchant asked for the current approach to be implemented.


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Posted By: artdepot
Date Posted: 01-October-2010 at 2:51pm
Thanks to both of you, we'll test is out and definitely consider making the move.



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