Donations addition at checkout?

[maffpunton]

Hi!

I'm looking to have an option to add a donation to the order at checkout... i read on another thread that v8 might be having some kind of support for this type of thing. Is this true? If so, how could I do it? It doesn't need to be a seperate page or anything... just a little box where you can type in a donation amount.

Thanks!

[cdicken]

I did this on one site by using the 'Simple Shipping' field and making it Shopper Editable. So people could enter their own charge in there. I then used 'Design | Text' to rename all instances of 'Shipping' as 'Donation Amount'.

Of course, this would only work on a site where you are not calculating postage, but it is one way to do it.

[maffpunton]

Bugger, yeah unfortunately I'm calculating postage based upon cumulative weight... will that not work then?

[cdicken]

No - it's one or the other I'm afriad. The only way to do it is to have a product in the store called 'Donation' and then have a link in the checkout to take people out of the checkout to that product.

You can then use the fix in the Advanced User Guide on p68 - Going Straight to the Checkout after Adding to Cart - to take people straight back to the checkout afterwards.

[alexrpaul]

Any thoughts of adding a donations feature to the next version of actinic?

I would LOVE customers to be able to add a charity donation as they checkout...