Shopping Pad with Bulk Additions in Emporium Plus Tool Kit

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Most of you have probably seen this info on Facebook while checking on this week's sales, but just in case you haven't, I added a multi-product add feature to the Tool Kit that does not require the Express Order module. For the past several years you needed to use that inexpensive module to loop through a page's products that were being added with a single button click to get the bulk additions. The new feature in the Tool Kit is much more robust. You can add products with or without attributes. As long as required attributes are filled in, the product is added. If not, you get a message with a link to each failed addition. The module also checks inventory and displays an applicable message if the item is out or short supply for the order. The only thing I haven't yet included is support for inventory variants.

The typical usage would be at the category or product list level. At http://www.emporiumplus.com/1AAUPG.html you can see the same version update category which demonstrates the feature. FWIW: there is a 50% off same version update modules today (8/15/2012) only. Many people have been getting the Tool Kit and Coupon module updates today for the price of a mocha.

As many of you remember, in 4x I had a shopping pad module. The need for that separate module really isn't there anymore with all the other re-order features in the core merchant or tool kit enhanced. However, with the addition of the multi-product add feature which accepts attributes, I combined that feature with the existing "vquick" function in the Tool Kit to make an enhanced Shopping Pad. The example is at http://www.emporiumplus.com/SHOPPAD....&padquantity=1

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Re: Shopping Pad with Bulk Additions in Emporium Plus Tool Kit

Here's a variation on the bulk add and shopping pad features. http://www.emporiumplus.com/tk3/v3/doc.htm For frequent shoppers, they could have a cheat sheet. They could even have it on their PC. Then simply check the boxes for the items wanted and submit the form. That populates the Shopping Pad page which lets them change quantities, fill in attributes (when required), review the prices (including price group discounting), and even show and apply volume pricing. I'll have the example Shopping Pad page's example code available later today.

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Re: Shopping Pad with Bulk Additions in Emporium Plus Tool Kit

Bulk Product Adding for Miva Merchant category, shopping pad, and product pages. The "how to" guides and links to examples can be found at our Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/EmporiumPlus The product page examples show how customers can enter quantities to desired attributes (red, blue, green, yellow) on the product page. They can then click one add to basket button and the Tool Kit puts all of those with quantity inputs greater than 0 into the basket.

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Re: Shopping Pad with Bulk Additions in Emporium Plus Tool Kit

I enhanced the variantarray for the product page. In addition to the other variant variables, you can now include the price in the variantarray. See http://www.emporiumplus.com/SAMPLE5.html for an example. This makes it easy to provide a quantity box with each option along with the price of that option if it is different from the master product price. You can also read in info from custom product fields assigned to the variant product, e.g. regular price $xxx. Then the customer can click one add to basket button for the options/quantities they want.