order form

[Kara]

I hope I can explain this well.

I have one page on my site for customers to place orders. I have them fill
it out and then it gets e-mailed to me. I have another product line that has
a lot of different parts. Is there any way I can have customers pick an
item, indicate the qty and have it added to a different form to be e-mailed?
I am thinking of something like a shopping cart, but not to be payed for over
the internet.

Thanks!
Kara

 

[Tom Willett]

Find a shopping cart the works on your host server, and modify it?

 

[Andrew Murray]

I assume you sell something like arts/crafts/small clothing items (like
scarves)? So, if you have for example woven scarves, you might offer
colours like blue, red, green, yellow, so you'd have a dropdown box, radio
buttons or check boxes (for multiple choices if the user wants 15 of red, 11
of blue and 24 of green for example) for the user to select the color, and
text box for the qty. You would need to add the other form field input
types like a text box for the quantity and a drop down box for exmaple, for
the color/size of the product , and do this for each product then all those
values would be emailed to you when they click "Send Order". You would need
to name the fields as something that makes sense when you receive the order,
so you know what each fieldname is, and what each value is corresponding to.

Doing this manually would be extra work, but it can be done. On the other
hand, if you wish to have a shopping cart with online payments, then try
PayPal. The Paypal site does all the work of actually processing the
payment; it provides a basic shopping cart.

There's an add-in for Frontpage & Expression Web that allos you to add the
Paypal buy now/add to cart/view cart buttons and add items to your web
page/s where customers can add their orders to the Paypal cart, and pay for
their purchases through their own PP account or with their credit card (such
as Mastercard or Visa).

The Paypal site also has a online 'wizard' that does the same thing as the
FP addin - creates the buttons (or rather, the HTML code) for each time.
You repeat the process for each product item.

This might be more than you need; but worth exploring.

 

[nsales]

I hope I can explain this well.

I have one page on my site for customers to place orders. I have them fill
it out and then it gets e-mailed to me. I have another product line that has
a lot of different parts. Is there any way I can have customers pick an
item, indicate the qty and have it added to a different form to be e-mailed?
I am thinking of something like ashopping cart, but not to be payed for over
the internet.

Thanks!
Kara

Take a look at www.ezcat.com . Its very full featured and easy to use
and can probably handle the issues you are refering too.