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cartafina
Nov '08

Hello all,



hm, I know, this is covered in the help section and in various posts here in the forum. For some reason I don't get it. It's probably really easy. Here is what I'd like to do:



I would like to add a selection dropdown that a user has to select before he can hit "put in shopping basket". It needs to say:



Please select:

Customers from New Zealand: 16.82 NZ$ (includes 12,5% GST)

All others: 9.95 US$



I've tried to alter the variants in my seller admin, but I am getting an empty dropdown each time. There is nothing in the dropdown.



I dont' get the two areas where I can enter stuff. There are three fields for "option 1, option 2, option" and a big text entry field where I can enter "option values". What are option values?. I don't get what I have to enter in the two. I've tried to enter my two options (NZ and world) in any of those fields, but it always creates two empty dropdowns, where I just want one dropdown with two entries (or three, because ideally "please select" is the first line in the dropdown, not above it)



Hope this was understandable.



thanks for any suggestions

Petra

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E-junkie_GuruWebmaster & Support Guru
Nov '08

The Option1,Option2,Option3 positions are where you set the values that would appear in the dropdown menu(s) -- all the values you put in the Option1 position would appear in the first menu, values in Option2 (if any) would appear in a second menu, etc. (put nothing between the commas to omit an option).



However, if you only need to charge 12.5% tax for NZ buyers, there's a much easier way to accomplish that. Just go into Seller Admin > Cart Sales Tax & VAT settings, check "Tax Buyers From Country" and select New Zealand in the menu, enter 12.5 as your Sales Tax/VAT rate, and Submit to save changes. Then just make sure you configure your products with the Sales Tax setting checked. :^)

cartafina
Nov '08

Thank you so much, Tyson, I made the settings as you described in your second paragraph and it works perfectly this way. MUCHAS THANKOS!!!



There is only one last thing that I wonder about. It's not a problem, I'm just wondering: In the shopping basket layer, the buyer is now asked not only to select his land but also to enter his ZIP code. I wonder why that is? In my case that would not be necessary. It might raise suspicion from my buyers.



I wonder if there is no way to avoid that, if I can at least get that ZIP code information. Where is it going, or said differently: where is it being sent to, where is it stored, and why?



Thanks again for your help



Petra

stefanie
Nov '08

Hi Petra,



Your buyers will still need to enter a zip or postal code but you can change the text with our cart customization instructions found here:

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



In the VIEW CART button code, add the following lines of code just before the

// --> line:



function EJEJC_config() {

EJEJC_POSTCALL=true; }

function EJEJC_shown() {

jQuery("#state1").attr("innerHTML", "Your ZIP/Postal Code"); }



Where it says "Your ZIP/Postal Code", you can enter the text you'd like to display instead of the default. :slight_smile:

13 days later
cartafina
Dec '08

Ah. Cool. Works. Thanks Stefanie!!



I added this text after "Your ZIP/Postal code": (We ask for this for tax reasons. It will not be saved or given out)



That should give my buyers the information they need to feel secure about giving out that information.



Cheers

Petra



PS: And now, where are those customisation options for the popup...... Playing around with this beats television any day :slight_smile:

E-junkie_GuruWebmaster & Support Guru
Dec '08
cartafinaPS: And now, where are those customisation options for the popup...



Which customization options for which popup? :^)

cartafina
Dec '08

? Well, just what your college Stefanie wrote two posts earlier: The customisation options listed on this page: "Customizing E-junkie Shopping Cart", http://www.e-junkie.com/ej/help.custom-cart.htm



Border color, height or width of the layer, opacity of the dimming screen, those sorts of customisation options for the shopping cart popup. Well, popup might be the wrong word for it. How do you call the layer? "Popup layer"? Or just "Shopping Cart". Many names for one thing. Maybe we should call it "Shopping Cart Layer", that could make it easier to describe "it". :slight_smile: (Or, wait, I got it: "Shopping Cart layer popup" Uh, that's long)



Petra

E-junkie_GuruWebmaster & Support Guru
Dec '08

We just call it the "Cart", or maybe something more descriptive like "Cart overlay screen" if we're making a distinction between that typical behavior vs. the "fallback mode" cart that opens in a new window/tab whenever JavaScript is disabled. :^)

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cartafina
Dec '08

Oh, I see you have much better words for it. Fallback mode is nice. Cart overlay screen is definitely a lot better, too. Thanks again for the help earlier on. e-junkie is such a practical service. Everything works well and I don't have to worry about any of the complex stuff and can focus on creating my products. And I really appreciate that I can come here and get fast help on setting everything up. Hope you have a good and well deserving holiday.



Petra

cartafina
Dec '08

Oh, I see you have much better words for it. Fallback mode is nice. Cart overlay screen is definitely a lot better, too. Thanks again for the help earlier on. e-junkie is such a practical service. Everything works well and I don't have to worry about any of the complex stuff and can focus on creating my products. And I really appreciate that I can come here and get fast help on setting everything up. Hope you have a good and well deserving holiday.



Petra