Gift Wrapping

[pinbrook]

Is there a neat method of doing this?

I was assuming I could create a product called gift wrap and have it on every product as a tick box, ie tick for gift wrap and go to the gift wrap product to
select a radio button to choose wrapping for a girl or boy and input box for gift tag.

Hopefully using a layout so I don't have to manually associate every item.

or is the only option upselling in checkout?

[TraceyHand]

I was assuming I could create a product called gift wrap and have it on every product as a tick box, ie tick for gift wrap and go to the gift wrap product to
select a radio button to choose wrapping for a girl or boy and input box for gift tag.

That's what I used to do
Don't any more really although I might have a few items still left with the gift wrap option...not entirely sure LOL
AFAIK, the only gift wrap I have on site now is listed separately on it's own at the "front" of my "gift ideas" section but how you've said above, is how I used to offer it.
FWIW

[pinbrook]

Thinking about this the only realistic way is to offer it in checkout... can't add it to each product as you risk people purchasing more than one for a multi product order

but how?

I don't want to list it as a product on the normal shopping pages, so how can i upsell it whilst also hiding it?

Nor do i want to have it as a related product

[TraceyHand]

yep yep yep...all the same reasons why I don't really offer it and haven't really explored it further.
I confess I don't know much about upselling at checkout only though!
Sounds complicated

[Duncan Rounding]

(Without thinking this throufg too well) - How about making it a different shipping method...?

[los_design]

(Without thinking this throufg too well) - How about making it a different shipping method...?

That is what I would do, then (if you wanted to) you could add a txt box for them to pop in a personal message too during the c/o process.

Regards

[TraceyHand]

oh ffs...talk about making it seem obvious..
wonder if it's possible to have 2 "shipping method" dropdowns?
One for shipping, one for giftwrap options?

Thinking out loud now (never a good thing LOL)

[Mike Hughes]

I don't think it can be done at the moment.

It would be nice though if the handling charge could be upgraded to have a number of options that could be selected for optional extras. This could be very useful for things like Gift wrapping, Insurance, Packaging extras (for example in my case rod 'tubes' for fishing rods), etc. As it is, this could be done by adding more options to the shipping drop down, but that's just going to lead to a long and confusing list of options.

I'm sure Actinic would have liked to have heard this before 8.5 but I'm sure it can be added to their wish list as part of making the shipping section more comprehensive.

Mike

[Darren B]

Add a vote for me, adding a modified handling option to the checkout for these little bits

[pinbrook]

Ok here's my thinking....

create a layout called "Gift Wrapping in Shopping Cart" base it on "Related Product in Shopping Cart" change this

 <a href="<actinic:variable name="SearchCGIURL" />?PRODREF=<Actinic:Variable Name="ProdRef"/>&amp;NOLOGIN=1<actinic:block if="%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22HiddenFields%22%20%2f%3e%20%21%3d%20%22%22">&amp;SHOP=<Actinic:Variable Name="HiddenFields"/></actinic:block>"><Actinic:Variable Name="ProductNameOnline"/></a>

to call the product called gift wrap. (here I'm assuming I can hard code my product reference)

Add this layout to the cart...

Here I'm stuck as I've created my layout but if I right click on Shopping Cart layout to insert my new layout- how do I get my new layout in the drop down list to add it?

help me out here and Ill then do a layout to add to checkout page to (can you force quantity always equal one on to a sinlge product?)

[jont]

You will need to ensure it is assigned under the values tab inside the layout selector

[pinbrook]

hah yes just found it....

[pinbrook]

What do you think so far?

testing.surf-wax.co.uk/acatalog/index.html

add an item to cart, and let me know if I'm on the right lines

[TraceyHand]

here I'm assuming I can hard code my product reference

a probably ignorant Q...but how would I do that? hardcode the product reference like this, I mean?

[jont]

Yep - certainly works fine. Did you remove the message input from the actual product layout?