Accepting data from a third party program into product page

  • Resolved bstone81

    (@bstone81)


    8 years, 6 months ago

    We use a third party program, called the Fit Guide, to ask customers the particulars about their boat, in order to match them up with the proper boat cover. Once they complete the third party form, it then sends them to the correct product page.

    My question is this: Is there a way to send the data from our third party Fit Guide form to our woocommerce product page and have it populate the short description area with the information they inputted into the Fit Guide form? Such as a Query String or URL parameters? If so, it will need to be formatted to look presentable on the short description field.

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  • dougaitken

    (@dougaitken)

    Automattic Happiness Engineer

    8 years, 5 months ago

    Hi there @bstone81

    Sure, you can link from one page to a specific product using attribute values for a variable product.

    The format would be link this:
    [site-address]product/[product-name]/?attribute_pa_[attribute-name]=[attribute value]

    The short description area is the same for all variations, but you can add an additional description in each variation which will appear below the selector.

    As an aside, is the Fit Guide something you could look at building into your WooCommerce site? Maybe using Variable Products, or something more complex?

    If I can help further, please reply here, but if this has helped, be sure to mark this thread as Resolved.

    Thanks,

    Thread Starter bstone81

    (@bstone81)

    8 years, 5 months ago

    Thank you for responding dougaitken.

    So for clarification, the format string you listed above, would be part of the referring URL from our Fit Guide? would it look something like this:

    www.ourdomain.com/[site-address]product/[product-name]/?attribute_pa_[attribute-name]=[attribute value]

    And what parameters would I change in this string? [product-name] with our actual product name, etc.?

    Thanks

    Brad

    • This reply was modified 8 years, 5 months ago by bstone81.
    dougaitken

    (@dougaitken)

    Automattic Happiness Engineer

    8 years, 5 months ago

    Hi again @bstone81

    > So for clarification, the format string you listed above, would be part of the referring URL from our Fit Guide? would it look something like this:

    Sorry no that was an example, you would need to have them hard codeded as such from different examples.

    I also gave a slightly incorrect format.

    > And what parameters would I change in this string? [product-name] with our actual product name, etc.?

    Right so an example of

    www.ourdomain.com/[site-address]product/[product-name]/?attribute_pa_[attribute-name]=[attribute value]

    Would be like:

    www.ourdomain.com/product/tshirt/?attribute_pa_color=blue

    this would mean it is a product with the post slug of tshirt and a attribute of color where the value is blue

    Does that make sense?

    Erina (a11n)

    (@eri32s98)

    8 years, 4 months ago

    We haven’t heard back from you in a while, so I’m going to mark this as resolved. If you have any further questions, you can start a new thread.

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