[OFBiz] Dev - New Checkout feature ideas

[Ian Gilbert]

Sorry Daniel,  I don't understand.  Why not just have 'free delivery' as
just one of the available options and keep shipping switched on?

Sorry if I'm being dumb.

I'm not sure how complicated point 2 will be.  You don't know how much the
total cost will be until the customer has selected their delivery option
(for example what if they want a load of free material but want it
airmailed thereby incurring a cost).  After they have specified this then
you could maybe run a script within the 'checkoutoptions.ftl' and
'checkoutpayment.ftl' files to check if the amount was zero and, if so,
then don't show the payment methods.  I think you'd have to do a bsh
script for that as well.

Ian

> Hi
>
> To better explain point 1...
>
> Rather than make all mailing options free when you turn off
> "Charge Shipping", make it so you can just make one mailing
> option free, say normal post, or UPS ground.
>
> In other words from a users perspective: We'd be happy to send
> out our promo pak via normal mail free...  but we don't want to offer
> free overnight international Air Express for free...  Although we'd be
> happy to send it that way if the customer were willing to pay normal
> shipping rates for the package.
>
> Point 2.
>
> Yes, that's a good idea for side-stepping the problem...  But I'd like
> to eliminate it entirely...  disabling, hiding, or skipping the payment
> capture if no payment is required.
>
> Thanks
>
>
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> Date sent:      	Thu, 12 Aug 2004 06:58:22 -0000 (GMT)
> From:           	"Ian Gilbert" <ian at ethicalshopper.co.uk>
> To:             	dev at ofbiz.dev.java.net
> Subject:        	Re: [OFBiz] Dev - New Checkout feature ideas
>
>> Hi Daniel,
>>
>> We currently offer free shipping for people who collect their products
>> from our store and for orders over £75.  We configured this to work
>> using
>> the existing shipping methods.  I'm not sure if this is what you are
>> talking about in 1 but if so then it is allready supported.
>>
>> 2 would be helpful for us as we distribute a number of leaflets and
>> brochures on behalf of a number of NGO's/charities.  We currently
>> haven't
>> implemented it but the way that I was going to implement it was by
>> modifying one of the 'COD' options.  We would still need most of the
>> information on the checkout (delivery address, specific message, etc.,)
>> so
>> I hadn't considered modifying that.
>>
>> Is that useful?
>>
>> Ian
>>
>> > Hi
>> >
>> > I had a few ideas for some neet features that others might find
>> > useful...
>> >
>> > We provide a free promotional pak to people who sign in on our
>> > webstore, and recently converted it to using the OFBiz shopping
>> > system...
>> >
>> > 1.) Free shipping: We normally provide a number of shipping
>> > options, but currently, the system is offering them free Express Air
>> > shipping with the promopak for example...
>> >
>> > Would anyone else like/need an option to just offer free shipping by
>> > selected methods?
>> >
>> > 2.) Payment when the total is zero...
>> >
>> > Requiring a payment when the total is zero is confusing.  Is anyone
>> > else interested in skipping the payment step for free orders...  This
>> > might become a great feature to use with the digital delivery
>> > system.
>> >
>> > Is there anyone else that would like these features in OFBiz?
>> >
>> > Thanks
>> >
>> >
>> > Daniel
>> >
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>> >
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> Daniel
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> Daniel Kunkel		DanielKunkel at BioWaves.com
> BioWaves, LLC
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> 800-734-3588    425-895-0050
> http://www.BioWaves.com
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