Adding 'Quick Order' Functionality

[mwilliamson]

I want to offer time-constrained customers a 'Quick Order' facility that displays a text-only list of all products available at the site - together with an easy option to add a quantity of each product into the customer's shopping basket.

See examples at:
http://www.lushdns.co.uk/system/index.html
www.espainternational.co.uk/

Any ideas on whether this is possible with Actinic?

Thanks in advance.

[NormanRouxel]

I couldn't see either of these sites showing all products for quick order. You only gave links to their home pages so perhaps it's buried somewhere on the site.

However if you want to show a selection of "Best Seller" type products then you could create a Best Sellers section, choose a compact product layout template for this section, and set the sections Shopping Mode to be Quantity on Product Page and also choose the Single Add to Cart per page option.

Now make duplicates of your chosen products into this section.

You can also make a link to this section on your home page (if you're using Brochure this is really easy).

[DaveT]

Hello

We have wanted this feature for 3 years and eventually added it as a custom written module.
Lots of catalogue sites now offer the feature (Norman, it is where you can type in a list of codes, separated by spaces, new lines or commas) and on one click all the valid codes are added to cart).

The last I heard was that it was maybe added to the wishlist - others also expressed interest.

It would be useful and worthwhile.

[mwilliamson]

Just to clarify, this is the full address for E'Spa's Quick Shop facility:

http://www.espainternational.co.uk/e...F-F3DEECE90CDD

And, from the comments, I'm assuming that it's not possible to duplicate this on Actinic - but has gone onto the wishlist.

[NormanRouxel]

Actinic can do what your example above does, right now (but not automatically - you have to copy / paste duplicates of all products into a new section).

Create a Quick Order section.

Use the Copy / Paste as Duplicate to copy all your products in there. This shouldn't be a big job if you have a similar number of products as the example site.

Set the sections Default Product Layout to use a template that lays the minimum info you require out in columns. There are posts on the Forum about such templates.

Set the sections Shopping Mode to be Quantity on Product Page with Single Add to Cart.

[rmladden]

The espainternational site uses a ColdFusion module to do something to trick Actinic.

Another example of quick order is at http://www.blisslondon.co.uk/quickshop/

They also wrote some of their own code. I wonder what the method is.

[NormanRouxel]

Hi Bob. Is espainternational an Actinic site? I couldn't see any Actinic stuff there.

[rmladden]

I did not check that it was. I just followed the link of a previous post. It seems that it is not Actinic.

But the Bliss site is Actinic. I cannot figure out how they did this without writing a lot of perl code. I am playing with the idea of faking out Actinic with by constructing a perl bounce page.

[Darren B]

i have been asking for over 2 years, and as yet nothing

I did get an answer in July saying Chris had added it to the wish list. It is something we could do with desperately.

i would love to know how blisslondon managed to do it. If anyone out there helped develope the site then please let us know

Cheers
Darren

[DaveT]

Bliss have built the Add to Cart based on a lookup of codes.

The logic for Bliss London might be like this:

- get product code
- lookup code in file
- if code is valid then URL is http://www.blisslondon.co.uk/cgi-bin/ca000001.pl?SID=1&PAGE=ORDERDETAIL&PRODREF=<OrderCode>&ACTION_CONFIRM=1&Q_<OrderCode>=1&REFPAGE=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.blisslondon.co.uk%2Fcgi-bin%2Fca000001.pl%3FACTION%3DSHOWCART

- else
URL = /quickshop/

The way you could do it is to use Access to extract codes, SID's and page filenames, to a text file. Then you create a form that looks up the code, finds the associated SID and page file name and redirects to the add to cart page.

Now having said that I haven't done it for quick (multiple item) add to cart, only single items but then again, Bliss is only one item at a time.

Also I think you'd need some confirmation or message if a code was invalid.

[Darren B]

If i could even get it to do what bliss had done would be a start

i am not the best programmer in the world, nearly the worst but not quite. so any help would be much appreciated.

Cheers
Darren

[webyourbusiness]

Just to clarify, this is the full address for E'Spa's Quick Shop facility:

http://www.espainternational.co.uk/e...F-F3DEECE90CDD

And, from the comments, I'm assuming that it's not possible to duplicate this on Actinic - but has gone onto the wishlist.

yes it is...

http://www.elkmountainherbs.com/acat...ulk_herbs.html