pricing question

[web@ack]

Hi

In our store we would like to add products and have the prices displayed, BUT would like to option to either buy or enquire about the product.

What i would like to know is if there is any way that we can drop in an enquiry button on selected products that automatically sets the product value to £0 but also have the buy button that charges the person as per price of the product?

Any thoughts greatfully received.

[web@ack]

any ideas anyone?

[web@ack]

anyone any ideas?

[jont]

Why not include another button next to the buy button which fires open a popup page into which you have a simple feedback form for questions, their contact details and email address etc - you could use a stand alone script or modify the existing contact us form accordingly.

There is no need to have zero values against the product or take people through the cart if all they want is to send you a question.

[berryhill]

In reply to the above

How do we add additional buttons next the the 'Buy' button????

ie Request a Demo

Thx in advance Andy

[jont]

Hi Andy,

the "easiest" way is to utilise the inbuilt popup script supplied by Actinic. In the product description area (or the text area of a fragment) use the following code:

!!<<input type=button value="Enquire" onclick="ShowPopUp('http://www.site.com/myform.htm',680,750)">>!!

That will create a button called "Enquire" and will open a new window 680 x 750 pixels wide with the page called myform.htm.

You will also need to create a new htm page containing the feedback form. Check with your web host as most sites will come with a mail form script which allows people to enter details and this arrives with you via email. There are several free form mail scripts out there you can also use eg http://www.scriptarchive.com/formmail.html which are fairly simple to set up.

Save the page in the root of the web folder and upload to the site. You can add it to Advanced | Additional files so Actinic will upload the form for you

You could also modify the existing "contact us" page - template name Act_ContactUs.html in the root of the Site 1 folder.

HTH

[jont]

If you want the button to appear next to the buy button you need to place the above code (minus the opening !!< and closing >!! tags) into Act_ProductLine.html in the root of the site 1 folder and look for "NETQUOTEVAR:ADDTOCARTBUTTON" and place after that - be careful not to break any of the other code in the template (take a backup copy first)

[berryhill]

Have tried but get errors! was wondering if its something incorrect with the code

copy of code

<Actinic:ACTIONS>NETQUOTEVAR:ADDTOCARTBUTTON</Actinic:ACTIONS>
<input type=button value="Request Demo" onclick="ShowPopUp('http://www.countymowersltd.co.uk/cgi-bin/mf000001.pl?ACTION=SHOWFORM',680,750)"> </span>
NETQUOTEVAR:TEMPLATEENDXML

its the code from when a user clicks on the 'contact' link, is this correct

[web@ack]

thanks jont for the replay

Ideally though we would want the enquires to come through actinic if possible as an order so we have all orders/enquiries in the same place.

Any other thoughts?

[cdicken]

Ideally though we would want the enquires to come through actinic if possible as an order so we have all orders/enquiries in the same place.

Couldn't you just do this with components - have one choice that is worth the full amount of the product called 'Buy Now' and then one choice worth £0.00 called 'Enquire About This Product'