Sort of a Shopping Cart Question

[Padiwak]

I am trying to add a shopping cart to one of my sites but have already used the SOHO option for another part of the site and will need to build it in BV.

The difficulty I am having is that I want this cart just to compile the order and send it to me, I do not want a payment gateway, The purchaser are account holders who will be invoiced in the normal way so the shopping cart would be a showrooms as such where customers can view product and order at the same time.

Is their a way to do this in BV as I really want the control over the page elements that BV gives.

Regards
DaveK

[Karen Mac]

Re: Sort of a Shopping Cart Question

you could just use a form as long as you dont request payment method and card numbers.

Karen

[Padiwak]

Re: Sort of a Shopping Cart Question

you could just use a form as long as you dont request payment method and card numbers.

Karen

Hi Karen

Let me explain, I want to build the pages to show various products, so page A product range 1 Bage B product range 2 etc. and I wanted to put add to cart buttons on indivdual items but then when customer has finished ordering his/her list of goods would come to me by mail.

If I add a form for each product I would end up with multiple mails per order. Is there a way to combine the info into one mail IE like a shopping cart order.

Thanks for any advice

Kind regards
Dave

[Karen Mac]

Re: Sort of a Shopping Cart Question

Yes.. but its not free, youd need a custom cart for that.... and youd still have add to cart buttons so to speak.. and could even make it go to paypal or authorize.net for checkout.

What you are asking is not easy to do without a scripted cart...and specialized scripting to do it in bv. Thats why the ecommerce industry has upteem hundred cart systems...and is database driven...its much easier to make a database display contents on the fly.. then what you are asking bv to do.

If you dont want to process the payment.. and bill or invoice them later.. id make a form with all the OPTIONS in it and they could just refer to the pages or you could put images next to the form boxes instead of a text element. This way youd still get just one email per form.

I think you will be much happier using a cart system.. than trying to make bv do more than intended or investing in custom scripts.

Karen