Gift Wrapping

[TraceyHand]

actually..never mind...figured it out, I think lol
don'tcha just love rainy Saturdays?!

[jont]

don'tcha just love rainy Saturdays?!

Not if you're getting married http://community.actinic.com/showthread.php?t=30726

[pinbrook]

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

I'll post the entire solution when I'm done.

Just going to add layout to checkout pages now.

[TraceyHand]

Thanks Jo
I'm sure a lot of people could make use of this solution actually.
I've been keeping up for once (yay me LOL)
It works as well as it can do given the limitations.
Certainly much quicker than adding the option to EVERY product!

[wjcampbe]

OT

Tracey,

Watching your knowledge of the product and your confidence to experiment grow on a daily basis through this forum has been a joy.

Can't imagine you playing with this concept six weeks ago - well done.

[TraceyHand]

Thanks, Bill

You're right actually. V8 has opened my eyes to a lot of things that I would never have considered in V7!

Upgrading has been the best thing I've done for my site. Minor buglets aside, it's worked great for me and I have more plans yet (I can't resist the urge to tinker with it, tbh!)

Thanks again

[wjcampbe]

(I can't resist the urge to tinker with it, tbh!)

Just keep taking the backups

[leehack]

Thanks, Bill

You're right actually. V8 has opened my eyes to a lot of things that I would never have considered in V7!

Our badgering of you and George finally won you both over lol.

The V8 outlook is bright, if they get rid of these constant stupid niggly faults, the clouds will clear and the sun will shine for quite sometime.

[TraceyHand]

Our badgering of you and George finally won you both over lol.

haha...yeh..I'm easy
in a manner of speaking anyway

Not sure G is so convinced though...he needs working on still

[TraceyHand]

Just keep taking the backups

yep yep...I do at several an hour when I'm messing with it. I've probably reached the snapshot overkill stage but it's sure better than losing a whole lot of work (and it's saved me once or twice when I've done something I don't know how to undo too!)

[pinbrook]

Ok I've simplified this.... and hope as a result haven't left anything out. it turns out to be a simple fix.. this will add the option to upsell giftwrapping service in the checkout pages. Its done with a layout so all you have to do is add the layout where you want the upsell to appear.

First thing we do is create our product "giftwrap" (instruction assume you are not autogenerting product references. Give your product a refno giftwrap. Work through the othertabs - I changed

Details Tab, min 1, max 1
Exclude from froogle feed
exclude from shipping
untick options on marketing tab to not show in alsoboughts, new products
add prompts "please add message here"
date prompt for birthday

configure this to your own requirement. I also created a different product layout for giftwrap only and had quantity on product page so we get the prompts on the product and not in cart/checkout

Secondly we create a layout.

Go to Design|Library|Layouts. Right Click Checkout Area, new Layout, Layout Name "Giftwrap" Based on "None" Copy the following code into the code box

<!-- Gift Wrap list begin-->

<table  cellspacing="2" cellpadding="3" border="0">
   <tr>
      <th align="left" colspan="2"<strong>Gift Wrap:</strong></th>
   </tr>
</table>
<table cellspacing="2" cellpadding="3" border="0"
   <tr>
      <td class="cart">
      <ol>
  
         <li>  
                 <a href="<actinic:variable name="SearchCGIURL" />?PRODREF=giftwrap&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>"> Please click here to add Gift Wrapping to your Order (£2.00 per order)</a>
       
         </li>
 
      </ul>
      </td>
   </tr>

</table>

<!-- Gift Wrap list end-->

Change PRODREF=giftwrap so "giftwrap" is the product reference of the giftwrap product.

Please click here to add Gift Wrapping to your Order (£2.00 per order) change this to whatever you want it to be.

Thirdly we add the layout to the checkout layouts.

In Design view, page Preview, Select Page Type choose Shopping Cart or which ever phase you want this

Locate where you want the upsell to appear, we placed it immediately before "Also Bought Items in Shopping Cart" Right click, insert layout, Layout Selectors, Checkout Area, tick Use Fixed Layout" and select Giftwrap, Insert.

That should be it.

Please test this thorougly as i haven't set this live yet, but it seems to work ok in test.

you can see it for a short while whilst I continue to refine at testing.surf-wax.co.uk/acatalog/index.html, this is a test site with a dummy payment type so feel free to test

[leehack]

One for the AUG, nice one Jo.

[pinbrook]

Can someone confirm the Prompt info and choices

ie birthday, christmas

and message

are included by default with the product info, if you send an "Order Received Email" from Mail tab from downloaded Orders (I'm testing using Designer - so can't download orders). We send some of our orders to a third party for fulfillment using this email. Info is included in customer email so I would expect it to be an integral part of product detail

[leehack]

Works for me Jo, only limitation i can see is that you can't order 2 gifts with gift wrapping on them separately. Apart from that which i don't think you can overcome, super.

[TraceyHand]

Works for me Jo, only limitation i can see is that you can't order 2 gifts with gift wrapping on them separately. Apart from that which i don't think you can overcome, super.

Yes..I thought that.
My prompt on my giftwrap has always been asking which product the customer wants wrapped (I don't have a max qty set for it)..but obviously then you'd need another prompt for a message then.
Needing a message assumes that the order is being shipped direct to recipient, however, so is there likely to be more than one "lot" of wrapping required?

Just thinking out loud again...feel free to ignore me LOL