Add to Cart & Express Checkout Buttons

[nik-ret]

Hi All

Does anyone know how to have a standard "Add to Cart" button and an "Express Checkout" button on each item.

I've read the Adv User Guide which talks about replacing the "Add to Cart" but not having both. I presume there would need to be some editing of the perl scripts?

Lots of sites seem to have this now and I've put it on the wish list. Any feedback appreciated.

Regards

Nik

[leehack]

You can include a link to Express Checkout anywhere you like on a page, this could easily be a graphic or text.

<a href="http://www.mydomain.co.uk/cgi-bin/os000001.pl?ACTION=Start">Express Checkout</a>

You can replace these values with the actinic variables also if you wish.

To express checkout, your customer must have ordered previously and saved their details, but it certainly makes the process a bit quicker. Although the words Express, Checkout and Actinic are a little loose.

[nik-ret]

Hi Lee

Thanks for the response. What about for non-registered/non Remember Me customers?

Is it not possible to just skip the first confirmation page (ca000001.pl?) with the " Confirm" "Checkout Now" "Cancel" buttons.

I know it's only one screen but they all count (especially with Actinic Checkout!)

Thanks again

Nik

[leehack]

Thanks for the response. What about for non-registered/non Remember Me customers?

These have no option but to fill out their details, they are only asked for the minimum required details, these are mandatory and impossible to process without.

Is it not possible to just skip the first confirmation page (ca000001.pl?) with the " Confirm" "Checkout Now" "Cancel" buttons.

I know it's only one screen but they all count (especially with Actinic Checkout!) Nik

The link i provided does just that i hope!

[nik-ret]

Lee

Almost, there, however when you press the button it says that "the cart is currently empty". It ignores the quantity that is in the qty box on the page.

any ideas anyone.

Thanks again

Nik

[cdicken]

The checkout button you've added will just take people to the checkout without adding to cart.

The problem here is that adding to cart and then going to the checkout is a two-stage process

1) The item is added to the cart
2) The user is taken to the checkout

This is handled by two different perl scripts, and they cannot be done one after the other automatically other than by the trick in the advanced user guide.

THe only recommendation I have is to use a shopping mode of 'Quantity on Confirmation Page' which will take people to a separate page with an 'add to cart' button and a 'checkout' button on it. You can change the image of the 'checkout' button to be an 'Express Checkout'.

[leehack]

Nice one Chris, i'd never noticed that in the AUG before!

I suppose a happy medium is to set the bounce delay to '0', so on adding to cart, it doesn't bounce back and the checkout button is available on that screen.

That is my preferred setup currently, a link to both view cart and checkout on every screen plus a '0' bounce on the add to cart.

[nik-ret]

Chris / Lee

Thanks for the updates. The main aim was to reduce the lengthy checkout process by one page but it doesn't sound like I'm going to be able to do so.

I've spoken with support as well and they seem to have drawn the same conclusion. There suggestion was getting someone to modify the scripts for me (way out of my depth).

Any suggestions on who would be good?

Regards

Nik