Creating custom Buy buttons and buttons that allow customer to dictate price

[cunard]

Is it possible to have an item in an ezimerchant online store where the customer selects the price to pay ? For instance we have a mobile computer repair business as well as we are about to setup an online store we would like our customers to be able to pay there bill online at our online store but the amount will be different depending on the job. Is this possible with your software ? I have been playing around with your demo and I am quite impressed so far and hopefully will buy ezimerchant pro by the end of the month. The demo does not appear to have any help Does the ezimerchant come with help and manuals ?

[naughtistore-com]

Further to the above question, I would also like to know ifclients can part pay, like what cunard is asking, I would like to implement Lay-By and 30 day accounts onto my website!! This would also help for people wanting to buy gift vouchers!!!!

[importscene-com-au]

Hi there,

Unfortunately both selectable pricing and part payments are not currently possible with the program. However you may want to consider a workaround that I have used to accept any domination of funds for special orders and that is to set up a Special Order page with each of the monetary denominations that you can select from to make up a special price. Of course you have to request that the customer provides details of the order in the additional information field on checkout.

To see what I mean go to my page at: http://www.importscene.com.au/category125_1.htm

Note: That the $5 is $4.99 due to the rounding issue which I'd love to resolve!

I hope this helps.
Kind regards
Gregg

[dferguson]

There are several ways to submit an order to the GTS. The most common way is via the JavaScript shopping cart (i.e the method used by all ezimerchant pro websites)

Another way is to send a HTML form of information directly to the GTS server - bypassing the shopping cart page completly.

We have never told customers this due to the complexity and level of support it would require. Now that we have the forums I will give you guys the information. Those of you with the HTML knowledge to implement it can.

The most common request is for a way for purchases made on ebay or other auction engines to be paid for on your website using the GTS servers security etc.

Below is a sample snippit of html code which will create a BUY button on a page. It can be customised to include several things:

* Hidden or visible Quantity box
* Hidden or visible Price box (that the end user can enter a price into!)
* Hidden or visible Product Code box
* Hidden or visible Product Name box
* You can either have the BUY button as a generic form button OR as an image.

The code:


<!-- COMMENT: Submitting to the GTS server consists of the following form -->
<!-- COMMENT: An open form tag: DONT forget to replace XXXX with your registration number -->

<form method="POST" action="https://secure.ezimerchant.com/gts0450/customerserver/cs_ProcessOrder.asp?merchantid=XXXX" name="form_1">

<!-- Qty field: type hidden will hide it or type text will show it -->

<input type="hidden" name="quantity" maxlength="15" size="5" value="1">

<!-- COMMENT: This is the Price field: -->

<input type="text" name="unitprice" maxlength="10" value="0.00">

<!-- COMMENT: Some hidden fields: (insert product name and code where appropriate -->

<input type="hidden" name="prodcode" value="insertprodcodehere">
<input type="hidden" name="prodname" value="insertprodnamehere">
<input type="hidden" name="productcount" value="1">
<input type="hidden" name="prodweight" value="0">
<input type="hidden" name="customfieldname" value="">
<input type="hidden" name="customfieldvalue" value="">
<input type="hidden" name="localdelivery" value="0">
<input type="hidden" name="interstatedelivery" value="0">
<input type="hidden" name="internationaldelivery" value="0">
<input type="hidden" name="localtax" value="0">
<input type="hidden" name="domestictax" value="0">
<input type="hidden" name="internationaltax" value="0">
<input type="hidden" name="version" value="Pro350_eziMerchPro_AWP">
<input type="hidden" name="requestedaction" value="CreateNewOrder">

<!-- COMMENT: You can now choose one way of submitting this info to the cart.. either just html button OR a graphic button (XXXX) -->

<!-- <input type="submit" name="submit" value="proceed to checkout"> -->

<input src= "images/XXXXXX.gif" name="Buy Product" alt="Buy Product" type="image" border ="0">

</form>


Good Luck!

[sabbie]

Thanks for that .. Something I have thought about in the past .. Oh looks like I will be able to make my sub domains now ! :D

We have various products for sale but need a system where we can put diff items .. for example adult novelty which isnt really fit for kids eyes can go in to a sub domain adult.buymethatnow.com

Oh I can see a weekend filled with caffine and some manaul coding coming on lol

[importscene-com-au]

Hey, thanks for that David - I'll put that on the "To do" list to try !

[horsepowerinabox]

Help!!

I am a new user for Ezimerchant, and have just taken over a website that uses Ezimerchant, with very limited knowledge of HTML.

I have found difficulty with the rigid pricing for check-out, and quite often offer a product at a discount. This thead is the perfect solution, however I cannot get my head around making the code work on my "Special Order" page.

Is anyone on the forum willing to help out, for a fee, to get this option up and runing on my site?

My email is morrie@horsepowerinabox.com

Mobile is 0414 780 830.

Morrie Huckel

[christof]

Hey,

Check it out! David it works! I created a new page for e-bay auction winners using David's code (obviously the winning price of each auction will be different) and here's the result...

http://www.hibermate.com/webcontent26.htm

Anyway, when someone wins an auction I just send them to the above page, they enter the winning bid amount and they check out - easy! The only downside is the postage - the postage amount is added during checkout from the GTS. This means the winner should only enter the subtotal provided by e-bay (i.e. minus the postage costs). You need to have your postage costs listed on e-bay the same as your regular website...

Yet another way to sell stuff online...

Excellent!

Chris

[dferguson]

Hi Chris

This is great! Would you mind helping out Horrie from Horsepower in a box with his code? (he is willing to pay for the help!)

[horsepowerinabox]

Hi Chris

Thanks for your offer of help, it is greatly appreciated.

I have managed to get the feature working, with some help from a HTML educated mate of mine that I hadn't thought of annoying, and you are right it is an easy deal and it works great.

The only downfall is that every time I generate the site with product changes etc the new code is rewritten back to the previous page.

Anyway, thanks again for your offer to help.

Regards

Morrie Huckel

[christof]

Cheers Morrie,

I got your message, thanks. Glad to hear you got it up and running & good luck with it...

For now

Chris

[bcarroll]

Hi, I would sugest you need to add the code to a custom ezimerchant page rather than directly in the generated HTML.

[dferguson]

I think what bcarroll means is that you can add the code to one of the "additional pages" in ezimerchant. (in the 'Add new pages to your website' section)

This would then include the code in the generated site automatically.

[tinseltown]

Hi All,

I was just wondering if by using this form there is a way to bypass the default shipping charges. For example, we base our shipping on the subtotal, but people that would be using this form would be paying for an Ebay item and would already have the total including shipping. Any suggestions?

Cheers,
Scott Bell
www.tinseltown.com.au

[dferguson]

Unfortunatly the GTS will apply whatever freight rules are applied to the rest of your site.

[boinkit]

I was just reading through this topic, and although its quite old, I was wondering if the HTML snippet given could be used to add a 'Buy' button to the index.htm page on my site. Thereby allowing me to showcase products and have a buy button, rather than a link to that particular products info page as I currently have.
Has anyone done this?

[dferguson]

Hi

No, the best you can do is to link to the product page. We are looking at creating some script for you to use in a later version.