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Forum Name: Customizing ProductCart
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Topic: Free Shipping

Posted By: loracady
Subject: Free Shipping
Date Posted: 08-March-2008 at 5:00pm

On each product page, I want to put either an image or just some text that says "Free Shipping in US." I'd like the image or text to be very close to the Add to Cart Button. How can I do this? Thanks!

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Posted By: Hamish
Date Posted: 08-March-2008 at 5:16pm

Just off the top of my head - Why not create a wider or taller image for "Add to Cart" that incorporates "Free shipping in US" - You can either make it appear as one or two buttons, but keep them as a single image. - I'll take a look at an alternate method with separate buttons as well.

Posted By: Hamish
Date Posted: 08-March-2008 at 7:10pm

I've done some research. There are 3 members : viewprdC viewprdL and viewprdO which are called from viewprd and use code from viewprdCode.

They (or at least viewprdC call routines from viewprdCOde to display free shipping text and also the add to cart button. I haven't tracked down the option in the admin pages to enable the Free shipping text to be displayed. - Anyone know the answer to this one?

If it's just a matter of relocating the text you just need to move the call to pcs_FreeShippingText to next to pcs_addtocart in viewprdC (or whichever one you are using).

HTH

Posted By: Greg Dinger
Date Posted: 08-March-2008 at 7:22pm

Free shipping can be specified, for example, on the UPS configuration.

I have a store that offers free ground shipping and for that service we marked the checkbox and set the order level at 1 cent.

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Posted By: loracady
Date Posted: 09-March-2008 at 8:57am

Thanks Hamish and Greg-

I appreciate your comments. Hamish, I like the idea of making the add to cart button larger to display the free shipping in the US. I may end up doing that. I want to make it very obvious that our store offers free shipping. Funny thing is, even if I created a flashing red banner that said "Free Shipping," customers will still call and ask, "How much is shipping?" ;)

Thanks Greg for your input as well. I am using FedEx and I have implemented the free shipping for Home Delivery and Ground, but finding that information means a customer has to add the item to the cart and then estimate shipping costs. I will probably use some form of Hamish's idea or use the flashing red "Free Shipping This Week" banner! Just kidding about the banner!!

Thanks again

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Posted By: katharina
Date Posted: 09-March-2008 at 2:47pm

I like the flashing banner part. Reality is you can make things so obvious and yet someone will still not see it. We have that all the time. For example we put a hhhuuuggghhhheee big note up in the header when we are closed due to the attandance at a festival with a link to the festivals website. Yet they still don't see it and claim it wasn't there. What can you do? Lead them to the water and hope they'll drink. LOL You basically have to strip down your website to a blank canvas and only have as little info on it as possible so the crazy banner stands out. Well that's not how live works. I sometimes can say people don't read, they only look at images. Sad but true...

Katharina

Posted By: Hamish
Date Posted: 09-March-2008 at 4:51pm

Hi Greg,
Does that show up on the product page near the "Add to Cart"? I don't have any sites configured with the supplied shippers such as UPS or FEDEX - so I don't see the impact of setting these.

I've spent some time trying to understand how the built in "Free Shipping" option which displays text on the viewPrd pages works but couldn't track down where the parameters which trigger it are set :
(from viewPrdCode - pcs_FreeShippingText)
' Check to see if the product is set for Free Shipping and display message if product is for sale
if pnoshipping="-1" and pFormQuantity <> "-1" and pnoshippingtext="-1" then

After checking in the manual I suspect I misunderstood the "No Shipping Charge" and "Display No Shipping Text" options you can set for a product. It says they are designed for non-physical products - such as downloads etc and that setting them will prevent shipping options being displayed - I really should read the manual more!

Posted By: Hamish
Date Posted: 09-March-2008 at 4:59pm

Loracady,
Having thought about it more, I'm not so sure my initial idea was so great.

The downside of making the image wider, or "faking" it to appear as two images is that some customers will click on the free shipping bit - expecting to get info about it and will instead just add a product to their basket. They may even get annoyed at having been "tricked" - even if un-intentionally.

I think a better solution is to either :_
- Make the free-shipping clearly a part of the "add to cart" button - overlayed text or whatever.
- OR-
- Tweak the code in viewprdcode.asp sub pcs_addtocart to add either the required text or a true and separate image for the free shipping.
The downside to that is you have customized code to maintain when installing future upgrades.

Posted By: Greg Dinger
Date Posted: 09-March-2008 at 5:11pm

Hamish,
I've not seen anything that causes a message to appear next to the "add to cart" button. But I just happened to be setting up free shipping for a site that will launch next week and felt that checkbox to be relavent to this thread.

Our approach to such a requirement in a past project was to do just what you mention - alter the code to place the message where desired, and to clearly document that change so that future upgrades are simplified.

Here is a (non-ProductCart) example of that approach. We added a flag to the product admin so the merchant can indicate which products are eligible for free shipping. And we have a location at the top of the page body for a "shipping promotion" banner. The setting on the product record causes "Free Shipping Available" to appear on the page.
http://www.starmarinedepot.com/Humminbird+1155c+Chartplotter .html

The rules for that site differ from what loracady wishes; for her site one one only do what you already mentioned - edit the viewprdcode.asp script to cause the appropriate message or graphic to be displayed.

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Posted By: loracady
Date Posted: 09-March-2008 at 6:00pm

Hi Everyone-

Hamish- Good "second thinking" about the larger Add to Cart button. That really would make a potential customer angry! It took me awhile also to figure out what the "Display No Shipping Text" and "No Shipping Charge" were in the admin section of each product. Thanks for telling me what asp file to add the Free Shipping image or link to.

Greg- I really like the Star Marine Depot website. That is exactly what I meant by having the Free Shipping on the product page.

Katharina- Thanks for your comments, as well. It is always good to know that I am not alone in my experiences with customers!

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