Pre Purchase Questions

Good afternoon all,

I have setup Hikashop as a test and so far we are happy with what we have found. I do have some questions on the Essential and Business editions.

1) I am not certain from reading the documentation, can I setup separate and unique forms for each product if I upgrade? We are a small town and looking to use Hikashop to offer our Parks classes online, some require a registration form to be completed and some do not. Having the form online, in the checkout process, would be a very good thing.

2) We do not really need to have users on the system, in Joomla, so is it possible to have customers complete a registration to be included in the processed order information? Without creating a new Joomla user for each order.

3) Can I assign a coupon to a product? Currently we give residents of the city a discount on the cost of parks programs, I used the coupon system to provide the discount. A simple solution, but it doesn't allow anyone to make purchases on multiple programs at the discount rate, they only get the discount once per order.

Thanks for any info you can provide.

DAve

Excellent! I was pretty certain that would be your answers but wanted to be certain.

Thanks,

DAve

We are in the US. Normally we are able to purchase tax free as we are a municipality (small town government). I know previous EU purchases we have made have been without VAT, how do we go about making a VAT free purchase with Hikashop?

Thanks,

DAve

Done, Business Edition purchased. Thanks!

DAve

nicolas wrote:

Hi,

1. You can setup forms directly on the product page with custom fields of the table "item" (Business edition only). Then, the user will be able to enter information for each product he adds to his cart.
Additionally, you can have custom fields for the order itself which are displayed on the checkout, or for the user or for the address of the user (they are added on the registration form).

2. Yes. You can do that in our commercial editions by changing the option "registration" to "no registration" in the Checkout tab of the configuration.

Not sure I get how to make this happen. I did set "registration" to "no registration" and I got a window asking for billing address, that's good. No registration required, billing address has to be provided, exactly what we want. Unfortunately the customer information never picks up the name so I end up with a customer list that is all blank, each customer has to be opened to see what the name and address is.

I tried setting up custom fields of type order but they never appeared during checkout. Is there a item I need to include in the checkout workflow to make those custom fields appear? Uhh, I got the custom fields to display clearing cache on Joomla and the browser. First question still remains.

Thanks, back to the documentation.

DAve