Can This Be Done Using WooCommerce?

  • Moobs

    (@nickyb713)


    9 years, 2 months ago

    I’ve never used woocommerce before so I’m thinking about giving it a shot for my new ecommerce site. To give you a little background it’s basically a gifting service to send someone else a gift.

    The site will only feature 5 or so products.

    My product page is going to be a 2-column layout. Products will be listed in the left column as follows:

    Product Image > radio button > Product name > Price & Shipping

    Directly Below Each Product:
    Check Box > Text Field for custom message

    Hovering over the image will make the item description appear in a separate box. For what I’m selling customers would purchase one item per an address.

    The right column will be a form for the recipient’s delivery/shipment info. Below the form there will be a required user agreement check box. Then a continue submit button, and I would like the user directed to Paypal to quickly complete their order.

    Does this sound like something that can be done using woocommerce, or would I be better off using something else?

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/woocommerce/

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  • lorro

    (@lorro)

    9 years, 2 months ago

    That’s a quite specific list of requirements, and WooCommerce doesn’t work exactly like that. Here’s how it works:

    Shop page – lists the products. Clicking a product goes to the relevant product page.
    Product page – has the image, product name, price, description, stock level and optional other stuff. User clicks the “Add-to-cart” button which can be set to go straight to the cart page.
    Cart page – lists the selected item(s) and there is an opportunity to select shipping address and shipping options, and add the shipping cost. To proceed, user clicks: checkout page.
    Checkout page – User enters billing and optionally shipping details, finally checks the order, then selects from payment options, PayPal in your case.

    Plugins are available to by-pass the Cart page:
    https://wordpress.org/plugins/woocommerce-direct-checkout/
    http://www.woothemes.com/products/woocommerce-one-page-checkout/

    The text field for a custom message is not a core WooCommerce feature. Your customer can enter a message in order notes, but this is not closely linked to the product so a customer may forget.

    There are plugins that can be used for the custom message on the product page.
    http://codecanyon.net/item/product-options-for-woocommerce-wp-plugin/7973927
    http://www.woothemes.com/products/product-add-ons/
    http://docs.woothemes.com/document/product-add-ons/

    I make no warranty that the premium plugins mentioned will be suitable for your purpose or that they will work for your selected theme. There may be other relevant plugins out there.

    The core WooCommerce plugin is free, as are some good WooCommerce compatible themes, so you can get your project more or less working and see what you think before incurring any costs.

    The code is open source, so you can write reams of code to change how WooCommerce behaves, PHP skills will be required, or employ a developer.

    Thread Starter Moobs

    (@nickyb713)

    9 years, 2 months ago

    Thanks for getting back to me. Do you think it would be easy enough to edit the woocommerce shop as I described, or would I be better off coding the shop myself?

    lorro

    (@lorro)

    9 years, 2 months ago

    I don’t think there is much to choose between the two approaches. It looks like a significant coding project to do it to your spec. Woo has been at it a while with a team of developers.

    Thread Starter Moobs

    (@nickyb713)

    9 years, 2 months ago

    Okay, I was just about ready to build my own store using another method, but the order management and inventory management systems that are built into woocommerce are too appealing to pass up.

    I really need to build a one page form checkout that will have the products listed as radio items w/ thumbnails and some other brief info. The form also needs to include some custom fields and options including the required fields for shipping. The rest of the checkout will be handled by Paypal.

    The biggest thing is having each radio option correspond to a product in the database and passing all form data to Paypal. If anyone could point me in the right direction as to where to start so that what I design jives with future woocommerce updates it would be greatly appreciated.

    toknatz

    (@toknatz)

    9 years, 2 months ago

    By default woocommerce product page doesn’t work like that, however you will be able to achieve that by creating a custom product page and you’re going to familiarize yourself with woocommerce add to cart hooks and filters.

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