customweddingdetails
Oct '09

Dear E-Junkie Administrators and Experts,



I am considering using your shopping cart service for my online business but I have a few questions first.



I am currently using PayPal as my payment processor and am outgrowing its capabilities.



My major concern is:



- Limited number of variables. I need allowance for multiple variables. The products I sell are customized and come with varying amounts of options attached. I'd like for customers to be able to input their information into one place without having to contact me first. The kind of information I need to collect is as follows:



Bride & Grooms Names

Wedding Date

Date Needed by

Last Initial

Color Choice 1

Color Choice 2

Font Choice 1

Font Choice 2



Currently, I have this set up as an email contact form with a link that goes to the payment page. I find this to not be as user friendly as I'd like it to be. I"d like for all of the order information to be in the same place as the payment place. I would need at least 8 option variables. Is this something e-junkie can do?



I appreciate your input.



Thank you

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E-junkie_GuruWebmaster & Support Guru
Oct '09

Hm, our standard features can only support up to three menus (using "Variants affecting price/weight/stock/sku") plus three more fields which can be either menus or text-entry fields (using "Variations which tell more..."), making a total of 6 variables per product.



You can also add one more "custom" field/menu. Although that variable would be passed into the cart with any particular product's Add to Cart button, the custom value actually gets attached to the full order rather than any specific product in the order, and as such it can only be set once for the full order.



With some additional custom scripting, you could have additional menus/fields on the page that would get concatenated (strung together) into a single variable field to be passed into the cart.



This and the Custom variable are explained more in the Changing Behavior section here:

http://www.e-junkie.com/ej/help.custom.purchase-buttons.htm



You may wish to consult with a competent, E-junkie-experienced developer regarding the more technically-involved, custom approaches described above:

http://www.e-junkie.com/ej/developer-directory.htm