Mal's E-commerce

[Mandi]

I know several of us have implemented Mal's as a cart solution. I have one item for new FQ client that is making me cross eyed . . . I posted at Mal's too, but traffic seems a little on the slow side there.

Anyway, this client sells soaps (and lots of other goodies, but it's the soaps that are . . . uh . . . proving slippery :P LOL!) There are about 9 different flavors of soap. They cost $4.00 apiece. If you buy 4 or more bars, the price drops to $3.50 apiece. Mal's has a . . . uh . . slick :P built in code for quantity discount, and it works great . . . as long as you're talking about the same flavor of soap.

I can't figure out how to get it to add up all the soap TOTAL, and figure the discount based on that.

Info from Mal's here (http://www.mals-e.com/support/helpscr.htm?pg=help3). I appreciate any pointers, if anyone else has tried to do this before.

My work in progress is http://www.customcreationsco.com/shop.shtml

. . . and can I just :wowwee: freak out a little, because I gotta ship my kids to Grandma's in 23 hours and my movers come in 4 days and I am totally insane for taking on a fresh project just now.

[Rich]

There are about 9 different flavors of soap.
ROFL - I sure hope you mean 'scents' and not 'flavors'. :P

It's been a LONG time since I've done anything with Mal's but I'll take a look and see what I can see...

[Rich]

The discount code you need is:

<input type="hidden" name="discountpr1" value="3,4.00:0,3.50">

-- Yum Yum, that chocolate soap is g-o-o-o-o-d :P

[Mandi]

Yeah, that I'd seen (and implemented.) That's how the soaps work on the 2nd column, first row of the linked page-in-progress. The second FLAVOR :P is discountpr2, and so on. It just doesn't work if you get less than 4 of each, but more than four total (the mix-n-match way.)

I think I may just make a cart item that is "bulk soaps" with a text quantity - and an add on one of those optional fields that is a textarea with instructions to have people say, "Chocolate-2, Spicy Soap-1" etc. We'll see how that goes.

Thank you very much for taking a peek, Rich, I really appreciate it.

Oh, and "flavors" is what one of my daughters started calling any odor when she was learning to talk, I guess it stuck in our family vernacular LOL. It's right up there with hu-normous (huge+enormous) and yester-night (yesterday's night, AKA Last Night.)

[Rich]

It just doesn't work if you get less than 4 of each, but more than four total (the mix-n-match way.)
Oh, I see...you want to apply the discount across all the products. I don't think this cart is capable of this.

Another possible option to consider is to offer 'bulk packages' like 6 soaps for $whatever or 1 dozen only $thismuch and then provide checkboxes for them to select their flavors.

[Mandi]

I'll give checkboxes a try . . . I was having a hard time thinking how I was going to associate a quantity with that, but I'll try again . . . :o .

Thanks again for your time and brainstorming. I'd toss you a :beer: if I thought it'd survive the trajectory from Kodiak, AK LOL . . .

[Mandi]

Just to follow up, I found a javascript add on that will do what we need.

[MizSeeker]

Can any site owners that have implemented Mals solutions contact me please? I am so brain dead with looking at various solutions again and options, I can't even think. I probably need to look at buying some high-end software solution just to try and get something UP on the sites I have registered.

Of course - Iif I didn't have to spend all my time on my day job ..... or charity websites I offered to help out justtttta little bit ....

I'm reviewing JShop, Ecomm 2.0 and looking at using Mals options in an upcoming site.

thank you -

Martha