Help with Variable Pricing? for Gift Certificates

[Infinite Art]

Hello,

I'm hoping someone can help me. I've spent a full day trying to figure this
out without much progress. I need to create the ability to purchase a gift
certificate by entering any amount between $10-$1000, then when they click
submit it would transfer that amount to the shopping cart. I looked at the
Gift Certificate option within Shopsite but it was confusing and had options
like print and e-mail which I do not need. Once an order is placed, the
client gets an e-mail and the certificate is mailed snail mail. Then I
looked at the product variable pricing option and started to get excited
that I could use that however it got totally confusing when I got into
having to then create a custom product template, include the HTML tags in
there and that's about as far as I got... Is there an easy way to just
create a text box, let the user type in an amount and have it transfer to
the shopping cart? Any help would be most appreciated...

Here is the page that I need to create this functionality for, currently
there are gift certificate amounts set up as products however as said, my
client wants the user to be able to enter any amount and do away with
these...
http://www.noelle.com/gift_certificates.html

Thanks,
Noelle

[Jim]

Infinite Art wrote:

Hello,

I'm hoping someone can help me. I've spent a full day trying to figure this
out without much progress. I need to create the ability to purchase a gift
certificate by entering any amount between $10-$1000, then when they click
submit it would transfer that amount to the shopping cart. I looked at the
Gift Certificate option within Shopsite but it was confusing and had options
like print and e-mail which I do not need. Once an order is placed, the
client gets an e-mail and the certificate is mailed snail mail. Then I
looked at the product variable pricing option and started to get excited
that I could use that however it got totally confusing when I got into
having to then create a custom product template, include the HTML tags in
there and that's about as far as I got... Is there an easy way to just
create a text box, let the user type in an amount and have it transfer to
the shopping cart? Any help would be most appreciated...

Here is the page that I need to create this functionality for, currently
there are gift certificate amounts set up as products however as said, my
client wants the user to be able to enter any amount and do away with
these...
http://www.noelle.com/gift_certificates.html

Thanks,
Noelle


You could do the Gift Certificate using either the Variable Price

product or the built in Gift Certificate feature. Either way you have
to use a template that will have the necessary information in it.
Looking at your site it looks like your product pages are not created by
ShopSite, is that correct?

(NOTE: If you use the Variable Price product method how is the recipient
of the certificate going to redeem it? With the built in Gift
Certificate method they will receive a code and pin to enter on the
shopping cart screen when they redeem the certificate and ShopSite will
keep track of any balance that may remain)

If you use ShopSite to generate the page (using the Variable Price
Product method) where you have your gift certifiate purchase option you
can use the product template DefaultCustomProductTemplate. Just check
the box under Edit Product InFo to enable the Variable Price and choose
the template DefaultCustomProductTemplate and when you generate the page
the correct form information will be there so the shopper can enter the
amount they want. Note that the Price set for the product in the
backoffice will be the minimum amount that they can enter. You would
need to keep track of all the gift certificates issued and find some way
to allow them to be redeemed.

The better way would be to use the built in Gift Certificate feature.
Configure the Gift Certificate options to have just Mail (printed)
certificates, set the min/max values and set the "Use Pull Down Menu"
option to "Text Box". You can then paste the Gift Certificate Link from
the box at the bottom of the page and paste it on your other pages to
have a link to the page where shoppers can purchase them. Note: the
default template for the Gift Certificate page (gc_default) is kind of
plain so you might want to make a modification of that to have it be
more like your other pages.

( On an unrelated issue I went to the shopping cart for your store and
couldn't read it because the text is all black on the dark brown
background. You might want to check out your shopping cart settings to
make it more readable.)

Jim

[Infinite Art]

Jim,

Thanks for the heads up on the black text on brown background. It displays
fine in IE (black text on cream background) but I just opened it up in
Firefox and it's black on brown. Wonder why. What browser are you using?

I created the product pages in Dreamweaver, then used Order Anywhere for the
links. I don't need the functionality behind the Gift Certificate option,
the code and pin, basically what needs to happen is when the gift
certificate amount is added to the shopping cart, when submitted "Noelle
Spa" gets an e-mail and then manually sends a gift certificate out via
regular mail. The recipient then redeems the gift certificate when they
visit the spa. They don't want the functionality of redeeming them online.

So it appears that using the Gift Certificate option would be easiest,
however is there a way to turn off the code, pin, tracking, etc. so it just
works like a product, and if not, then I assume I need to use the variable
pricing method but here is where I get lost...

Ideally... I would like to build the page in Dreamweaver and somehow use the
form code to "add" the amount entered to the shopping cart. Like in this
example:
http://www.shopsite.com/templates/examp ... rice4.html

I tried this though and couldn't get it to work.

Thoughts?

Thanks, Noelle

"Jim" <jstavast@xmission.com> wrote in message
news:dn4r69$tck$1@eval.shopsite.com...

Infinite Art wrote:
Hello,

I'm hoping someone can help me. I've spent a full day trying to figure
this
out without much progress. I need to create the ability to purchase a
gift
certificate by entering any amount between $10-$1000, then when they
click
submit it would transfer that amount to the shopping cart. I looked at
the
Gift Certificate option within Shopsite but it was confusing and had
options
like print and e-mail which I do not need. Once an order is placed, the
client gets an e-mail and the certificate is mailed snail mail. Then I
looked at the product variable pricing option and started to get excited
that I could use that however it got totally confusing when I got into
having to then create a custom product template, include the HTML tags
in
there and that's about as far as I got... Is there an easy way to just
create a text box, let the user type in an amount and have it transfer
to
the shopping cart? Any help would be most appreciated...

Here is the page that I need to create this functionality for, currently
there are gift certificate amounts set up as products however as said,
my
client wants the user to be able to enter any amount and do away with
these...
http://www.noelle.com/gift_certificates.html

Thanks,
Noelle


You could do the Gift Certificate using either the Variable Price
product or the built in Gift Certificate feature. Either way you have
to use a template that will have the necessary information in it.
Looking at your site it looks like your product pages are not created by
ShopSite, is that correct?

(NOTE: If you use the Variable Price product method how is the recipient
of the certificate going to redeem it? With the built in Gift
Certificate method they will receive a code and pin to enter on the
shopping cart screen when they redeem the certificate and ShopSite will
keep track of any balance that may remain)

If you use ShopSite to generate the page (using the Variable Price
Product method) where you have your gift certifiate purchase option you
can use the product template DefaultCustomProductTemplate. Just check
the box under Edit Product InFo to enable the Variable Price and choose
the template DefaultCustomProductTemplate and when you generate the page
the correct form information will be there so the shopper can enter the
amount they want. Note that the Price set for the product in the
backoffice will be the minimum amount that they can enter. You would
need to keep track of all the gift certificates issued and find some way
to allow them to be redeemed.

The better way would be to use the built in Gift Certificate feature.
Configure the Gift Certificate options to have just Mail (printed)
certificates, set the min/max values and set the "Use Pull Down Menu"
option to "Text Box". You can then paste the Gift Certificate Link from
the box at the bottom of the page and paste it on your other pages to
have a link to the page where shoppers can purchase them. Note: the
default template for the Gift Certificate page (gc_default) is kind of
plain so you might want to make a modification of that to have it be
more like your other pages.

( On an unrelated issue I went to the shopping cart for your store and
couldn't read it because the text is all black on the dark brown
background. You might want to check out your shopping cart settings to
make it more readable.)

Jim

[Infinite Art]

Figured out the background color issue... forgot a # sign in front of my
bgcolor hex code...duh..

"Infinite Art" <noelle@infiniteart.com> wrote in message
news:dn5385$35l$1@eval.shopsite.com...

Jim,

Thanks for the heads up on the black text on brown background. It
displays
fine in IE (black text on cream background) but I just opened it up in
Firefox and it's black on brown. Wonder why. What browser are you using?

I created the product pages in Dreamweaver, then used Order Anywhere for
the
links. I don't need the functionality behind the Gift Certificate option,
the code and pin, basically what needs to happen is when the gift
certificate amount is added to the shopping cart, when submitted "Noelle
Spa" gets an e-mail and then manually sends a gift certificate out via
regular mail. The recipient then redeems the gift certificate when they
visit the spa. They don't want the functionality of redeeming them online.

So it appears that using the Gift Certificate option would be easiest,
however is there a way to turn off the code, pin, tracking, etc. so it
just
works like a product, and if not, then I assume I need to use the variable
pricing method but here is where I get lost...

Ideally... I would like to build the page in Dreamweaver and somehow use
the
form code to "add" the amount entered to the shopping cart. Like in this
example:
http://www.shopsite.com/templates/examp ... rice4.html

I tried this though and couldn't get it to work.

Thoughts?

Thanks, Noelle

"Jim" <jstavast@xmission.com> wrote in message
news:dn4r69$tck$1@eval.shopsite.com...
Infinite Art wrote:
Hello,

I'm hoping someone can help me. I've spent a full day trying to
figure
this
out without much progress. I need to create the ability to purchase a
gift
certificate by entering any amount between $10-$1000, then when they
click
submit it would transfer that amount to the shopping cart. I looked at
the
Gift Certificate option within Shopsite but it was confusing and had
options
like print and e-mail which I do not need. Once an order is placed,
the
client gets an e-mail and the certificate is mailed snail mail. Then I
looked at the product variable pricing option and started to get
excited
that I could use that however it got totally confusing when I got into
having to then create a custom product template, include the HTML tags
in
there and that's about as far as I got... Is there an easy way to just
create a text box, let the user type in an amount and have it transfer
to
the shopping cart? Any help would be most appreciated...

Here is the page that I need to create this functionality for,
currently
there are gift certificate amounts set up as products however as said,
my
client wants the user to be able to enter any amount and do away with
these...
http://www.noelle.com/gift_certificates.html

Thanks,
Noelle


You could do the Gift Certificate using either the Variable Price
product or the built in Gift Certificate feature. Either way you have
to use a template that will have the necessary information in it.
Looking at your site it looks like your product pages are not created by
ShopSite, is that correct?

(NOTE: If you use the Variable Price product method how is the recipient
of the certificate going to redeem it? With the built in Gift
Certificate method they will receive a code and pin to enter on the
shopping cart screen when they redeem the certificate and ShopSite will
keep track of any balance that may remain)

If you use ShopSite to generate the page (using the Variable Price
Product method) where you have your gift certifiate purchase option you
can use the product template DefaultCustomProductTemplate. Just check
the box under Edit Product InFo to enable the Variable Price and choose
the template DefaultCustomProductTemplate and when you generate the page
the correct form information will be there so the shopper can enter the
amount they want. Note that the Price set for the product in the
backoffice will be the minimum amount that they can enter. You would
need to keep track of all the gift certificates issued and find some way
to allow them to be redeemed.

The better way would be to use the built in Gift Certificate feature.
Configure the Gift Certificate options to have just Mail (printed)
certificates, set the min/max values and set the "Use Pull Down Menu"
option to "Text Box". You can then paste the Gift Certificate Link from
the box at the bottom of the page and paste it on your other pages to
have a link to the page where shoppers can purchase them. Note: the
default template for the Gift Certificate page (gc_default) is kind of
plain so you might want to make a modification of that to have it be
more like your other pages.

( On an unrelated issue I went to the shopping cart for your store and
couldn't read it because the text is all black on the dark brown
background. You might want to check out your shopping cart settings to
make it more readable.)

Jim

[jim]

Infinite Art wrote:

Jim,

Thanks for the heads up on the black text on brown background. It displays
fine in IE (black text on cream background) but I just opened it up in
Firefox and it's black on brown. Wonder why. What browser are you using?

I created the product pages in Dreamweaver, then used Order Anywhere for the
links. I don't need the functionality behind the Gift Certificate option,
the code and pin, basically what needs to happen is when the gift
certificate amount is added to the shopping cart, when submitted "Noelle
Spa" gets an e-mail and then manually sends a gift certificate out via
regular mail. The recipient then redeems the gift certificate when they
visit the spa. They don't want the functionality of redeeming them online.

So it appears that using the Gift Certificate option would be easiest,
however is there a way to turn off the code, pin, tracking, etc. so it just
works like a product, and if not, then I assume I need to use the variable
pricing method but here is where I get lost...

Ideally... I would like to build the page in Dreamweaver and somehow use the
form code to "add" the amount entered to the shopping cart. Like in this
example:
http://www.shopsite.com/templates/examp ... rice4.html

I tried this though and couldn't get it to work.

Thoughts?

Thanks, Noelle

"Jim" <jstavast@xmission.com> wrote in message
news:dn4r69$tck$1@eval.shopsite.com...
Infinite Art wrote:
Hello,

I'm hoping someone can help me. I've spent a full day trying to figure
this
out without much progress. I need to create the ability to purchase a
gift
certificate by entering any amount between $10-$1000, then when they
click
submit it would transfer that amount to the shopping cart. I looked at
the
Gift Certificate option within Shopsite but it was confusing and had
options
like print and e-mail which I do not need. Once an order is placed, the
client gets an e-mail and the certificate is mailed snail mail. Then I
looked at the product variable pricing option and started to get excited
that I could use that however it got totally confusing when I got into
having to then create a custom product template, include the HTML tags
in
there and that's about as far as I got... Is there an easy way to just
create a text box, let the user type in an amount and have it transfer
to
the shopping cart? Any help would be most appreciated...

Here is the page that I need to create this functionality for, currently
there are gift certificate amounts set up as products however as said,
my
client wants the user to be able to enter any amount and do away with
these...
http://www.noelle.com/gift_certificates.html

Thanks,
Noelle


You could do the Gift Certificate using either the Variable Price
product or the built in Gift Certificate feature. Either way you have
to use a template that will have the necessary information in it.
Looking at your site it looks like your product pages are not created by
ShopSite, is that correct?

(NOTE: If you use the Variable Price product method how is the recipient
of the certificate going to redeem it? With the built in Gift
Certificate method they will receive a code and pin to enter on the
shopping cart screen when they redeem the certificate and ShopSite will
keep track of any balance that may remain)

If you use ShopSite to generate the page (using the Variable Price
Product method) where you have your gift certifiate purchase option you
can use the product template DefaultCustomProductTemplate. Just check
the box under Edit Product InFo to enable the Variable Price and choose
the template DefaultCustomProductTemplate and when you generate the page
the correct form information will be there so the shopper can enter the
amount they want. Note that the Price set for the product in the
backoffice will be the minimum amount that they can enter. You would
need to keep track of all the gift certificates issued and find some way
to allow them to be redeemed.

The better way would be to use the built in Gift Certificate feature.
Configure the Gift Certificate options to have just Mail (printed)
certificates, set the min/max values and set the "Use Pull Down Menu"
option to "Text Box". You can then paste the Gift Certificate Link from
the box at the bottom of the page and paste it on your other pages to
have a link to the page where shoppers can purchase them. Note: the
default template for the Gift Certificate page (gc_default) is kind of
plain so you might want to make a modification of that to have it be
more like your other pages.

( On an unrelated issue I went to the shopping cart for your store and
couldn't read it because the text is all black on the dark brown
background. You might want to check out your shopping cart settings to
make it more readable.)

Jim

You would need to add code like below. Change the capitalize text to
what you want, you can even get rid of some of it if you want to. There
are 2 places where you need to enter the database record number for the
product you can find that by viewing the source on the screen where all
the products are listed in the back office. The STOREID is also needed
, you can find it on any add to cart url or you can use the unencrypted
user name you log into your back office with if you leave the leading *
off. You also need to put the url for the order.cgi for the form action.

<form action="URL TO THE STORES SC DIRECTORY/order.cgi" method=post>
<b>YOUR TEXT GOES HERE</b>
<br><small><i>MORE OF YOUR TEXT CAN GO HERE</i></small>
<br>
<b>YOUR TEXT GOES HERE TOO</b> $<input type=text name="5<-REPLACE THE 5
WITH THE PRODUCT RECORD NUMBER:price" size="4" maxlength="10" value="">
<input type=hidden name=storeid value=*ENCRYPTED STOREID GOES HERE>
<input type=hidden name=dbname value=products>
<input type=hidden name=function value=add>
<input type=hidden name=itemnum value=5<-REPLACE THE 5 WITH THE PRODUCT
RECORD NUMBER>
<input class="add" type=submit value="[Add to Cart]">
</form>

Example
<form action="sc/order.cgi" method=post>
<b>Pink Roses</b>
<br><small><i>ro-1234</i></small>
<br>
<b>Price:</b> $<input type=text name="5:price" size="4" maxlength="10"
value="">
<input type=hidden name=storeid value=*1ed1dd85ef559eaa694594d7648ef5a678>
<input type=hidden name=dbname value=products>
<input type=hidden name=function value=add>
<input type=hidden name=itemnum value=5>
<input class="add" type=submit value="[Add to Cart]">
</form>

Jim

[Infinite Art]

It worked!! Thanks so much for your help Jim!!

"jim" <jstavast@xmission.com> wrote in message
news:dn5ndl$drf$1@eval.shopsite.com...

Infinite Art wrote:
Jim,

Thanks for the heads up on the black text on brown background. It
displays
fine in IE (black text on cream background) but I just opened it up in
Firefox and it's black on brown. Wonder why. What browser are you using?

I created the product pages in Dreamweaver, then used Order Anywhere for
the
links. I don't need the functionality behind the Gift Certificate
option,
the code and pin, basically what needs to happen is when the gift
certificate amount is added to the shopping cart, when submitted "Noelle
Spa" gets an e-mail and then manually sends a gift certificate out via
regular mail. The recipient then redeems the gift certificate when they
visit the spa. They don't want the functionality of redeeming them
online.

So it appears that using the Gift Certificate option would be easiest,
however is there a way to turn off the code, pin, tracking, etc. so it
just
works like a product, and if not, then I assume I need to use the
variable
pricing method but here is where I get lost...

Ideally... I would like to build the page in Dreamweaver and somehow use
the
form code to "add" the amount entered to the shopping cart. Like in this
example:
http://www.shopsite.com/templates/examp ... rice4.html

I tried this though and couldn't get it to work.

Thoughts?

Thanks, Noelle

"Jim" <jstavast@xmission.com> wrote in message
news:dn4r69$tck$1@eval.shopsite.com...
Infinite Art wrote:
Hello,

I'm hoping someone can help me. I've spent a full day trying to
figure
this
out without much progress. I need to create the ability to purchase a
gift
certificate by entering any amount between $10-$1000, then when they
click
submit it would transfer that amount to the shopping cart. I looked at
the
Gift Certificate option within Shopsite but it was confusing and had
options
like print and e-mail which I do not need. Once an order is placed,
the
client gets an e-mail and the certificate is mailed snail mail. Then I
looked at the product variable pricing option and started to get
excited
that I could use that however it got totally confusing when I got into
having to then create a custom product template, include the HTML tags
in
there and that's about as far as I got... Is there an easy way to just
create a text box, let the user type in an amount and have it transfer
to
the shopping cart? Any help would be most appreciated...

Here is the page that I need to create this functionality for,
currently
there are gift certificate amounts set up as products however as said,
my
client wants the user to be able to enter any amount and do away with
these...
http://www.noelle.com/gift_certificates.html

Thanks,
Noelle


You could do the Gift Certificate using either the Variable Price
product or the built in Gift Certificate feature. Either way you have
to use a template that will have the necessary information in it.
Looking at your site it looks like your product pages are not created
by
ShopSite, is that correct?

(NOTE: If you use the Variable Price product method how is the
recipient
of the certificate going to redeem it? With the built in Gift
Certificate method they will receive a code and pin to enter on the
shopping cart screen when they redeem the certificate and ShopSite will
keep track of any balance that may remain)

If you use ShopSite to generate the page (using the Variable Price
Product method) where you have your gift certifiate purchase option you
can use the product template DefaultCustomProductTemplate. Just check
the box under Edit Product InFo to enable the Variable Price and choose
the template DefaultCustomProductTemplate and when you generate the
page
the correct form information will be there so the shopper can enter the
amount they want. Note that the Price set for the product in the
backoffice will be the minimum amount that they can enter. You would
need to keep track of all the gift certificates issued and find some
way
to allow them to be redeemed.

The better way would be to use the built in Gift Certificate feature.
Configure the Gift Certificate options to have just Mail (printed)
certificates, set the min/max values and set the "Use Pull Down Menu"
option to "Text Box". You can then paste the Gift Certificate Link
from
the box at the bottom of the page and paste it on your other pages to
have a link to the page where shoppers can purchase them. Note: the
default template for the Gift Certificate page (gc_default) is kind of
plain so you might want to make a modification of that to have it be
more like your other pages.

( On an unrelated issue I went to the shopping cart for your store and
couldn't read it because the text is all black on the dark brown
background. You might want to check out your shopping cart settings to
make it more readable.)

Jim



You would need to add code like below. Change the capitalize text to
what you want, you can even get rid of some of it if you want to. There
are 2 places where you need to enter the database record number for the
product you can find that by viewing the source on the screen where all
the products are listed in the back office. The STOREID is also needed
, you can find it on any add to cart url or you can use the unencrypted
user name you log into your back office with if you leave the leading *
off. You also need to put the url for the order.cgi for the form action.

form action="URL TO THE STORES SC DIRECTORY/order.cgi" method=post
b>YOUR TEXT GOES HERE</b
br><small><i>MORE OF YOUR TEXT CAN GO HERE</i></small
br
b>YOUR TEXT GOES HERE TOO</b> $<input type=text name="5<-REPLACE THE 5
WITH THE PRODUCT RECORD NUMBER:price" size="4" maxlength="10" value=""
input type=hidden name=storeid value=*ENCRYPTED STOREID GOES HERE
input type=hidden name=dbname value=products
input type=hidden name=function value=add
input type=hidden name=itemnum value=5<-REPLACE THE 5 WITH THE PRODUCT
RECORD NUMBER
input class="add" type=submit value="[Add to Cart]"
/form

Example
form action="sc/order.cgi" method=post
b>Pink Roses</b
br><small><i>ro-1234</i></small
br
b>Price:</b> $<input type=text name="5:price" size="4" maxlength="10"
value=""
input type=hidden name=storeid value=*1ed1dd85ef559eaa694594d7648ef5a678
input type=hidden name=dbname value=products
input type=hidden name=function value=add
input type=hidden name=itemnum value=5
input class="add" type=submit value="[Add to Cart]"
/form

Jim