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Basic shop questions

User xootom
Date 8/19/2010 5:10 am
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xootom

I've disabled all but Paypal payment methods on my site, is there any way to hide the payment method drop down on the cart? At the moment the user has to still select Paypal.

Similarly, we're based in the UK, can the country field of the address be set to a different default, as the USA comes up at the moment.

Lastly, a bit more complicated but in a multi-sub-site set up where there are a number of mini websites administered by individuals (with page editing rights and 'turn admin on') can shops be set up on a kind of individual basis, or is there really only one central shop per WebGUI instance?

--- (Edited on 19-08-2010 11:11:00 [GMT+0100] by xootom) ---



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perlDreamer

The WebGUI Shop is centralized, just like all other functions, so even in a multi-homed/sub-site setup, there is one User Manager, one Group Manager, and one Shop setup.  However, individual products, which are Assets, will still follow the standard group permissions for viewing and editing.

The default country cannot be changed with a setting.  However, I think it would be a great addition and would take about 60 minutes to do:

  1. Add a setting to the WebGUI Database in an upgrade subroutine.
  2. Add the user interface to the Settings screen.
  3. Change the Form/Country plugin to look for that setting.
  4. Add tests to make sure that it works correctly.

Similarly, there is no automatic way to hide the payment method dropdown.  Here you have a few options.  It just provides a HTML form input, so if you make a custom cart template that uses a hidden field with the same name, it will work.  Or, you could add some code like that for the shipping plugin, where if there's only available option it skips the dropdown in the template code.

--- (Edited on 8/19/2010 7:37 am [GMT-0700] by perlDreamer) ---



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xootom

Just playing some more with the cart on my site, it has remembered a previous billing address I set, but where has this come from? My user profile has no address set, there's nothing under My Account/Shop.

I had a billing address labelled Home, I tried creating a Home 2, but now the Billing Address drop down contains:

Add new address
Update address: Home 2
Home 2
Home

Update address: Home 2 and Home 2 appear to be the same. How do I delete an address?

Even with a saved address, the cart still sometimes defaults to Add new address, rather than choosing an existing one.

--- (Edited on 12-09-2010 16:11:10 [GMT+0100] by xootom) ---



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perlDreamer

Just playing some more with the cart on my site, it has remembered a previous billing address I set, but where has this come from? My user profile has no address set, there's nothing under My Account/Shop.

The Address Book is separate from your User Profile, and currently is not available through Account/Shop, which just shows a record of what you've perchased

I had a billing address labelled Home, I tried creating a Home 2, but now the Billing Address drop down contains:

Add new address
Update address: Home 2
Home 2
Home

Home 2 is the currently selected address.  If you move the address selector to "Update address: Home 2", it will update that address using Ajax, or if you hit the Update cart button it will update it from the form fields.

Update address: Home 2 and Home 2 appear to be the same. How do I delete an address?

Currently, there's no way to delete an address.  If you don't like that address, just change it using update.

Even with a saved address, the cart still sometimes defaults to Add new address, rather than choosing an existing one.

The Cart does not assume that you're going to use a saved address, if you have one.  However, once you have selected an address to use, it will keep using that address until you change it, or checkout.

--- (Edited on 9/12/2010 4:39 pm [GMT-0700] by perlDreamer) ---



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xootom

With the billing address, is there any way of configuring which fields are shown, e.g. hiding email address which I have in user profiles? Or even hiding the whole billing address for subscriptions and virtual items, etc?

On another note, getting users confused with the workflow through the shop:

I've got a shop page layout with two different subscriptions on it and a mini cart. Assuming the user wants to add one of each subscription to their cart, then check out.

The user adds item 1 and is then given links to continue shopping or view cart. The user clicks to continue shopping but is returned to a page showing only the subscription they have already added to their cart, and no obvious way of going back to where they came from to choose the other subscription. Plus the cart isn't visible, the mini cart was on the page layout along with the two subscriptions. So their only way forward is to add a duplicate subscription 1 to the cart, or to navigate away (and notice the crumbtrail to get to the parent page layout, ideally).

The only way around I can think is to create a dedicated style for shop type pages with a mini cart and menu to the different items for sale, so they don't get stuck.

--- (Edited on 15-11-2010 17:18:28 [GMT+0000] by xootom) ---



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