Questions about Hykashop

Hello,

I’m doing some research on webshops for joomla.
I think Hykashop is quite interesting webshop, but I got some questions which I can’t find the answers to and I need to know for sure before I choose Hykashop.

- Is there an Ideal payment method available for Hykashop?

- I want to make a webshop for postcards. For this I want customers to fill in the text they want printed on their cards. I want this field to be shown beneath the number and add to cart button (or in the description field beneath the image if this is anyeasier). After this you go to the checkout page and fill in the required data to make the payment. I also want the text (which will be printed on the card) to be shown on the checkout page, so people read it once again and can approve/or change it. Is this possible?

Regards,

Smedia

The component looks and feels great!
I still got a question though. How can I change the look of the price. Everywere where a price is displayed the euro sign is placed behind the price. I want it be shown first (before the price). Can you help me out?

Once again, thnx for you’re quick reply. But once again I got another question.

Like I said, I want to make webshop for ordering postcards. The more you order the cheaper it gets. This works just great with characteristics! But next to this changeable price another fixed price amount needs to be added to the total price. By this I mean:
- When you order a postcard whitout a print the extra costs will be 0 euro
- But when you want the card to be printed on one side the fixed extra cost of 50 euro must be added to the total of that specific price of that card.
- And when you want the card to be printed on 2 sides the fixed extra cost of 100 euro must be added to the total of that specific price of that card.

That means if I order 2 different cards both printed on one side an extra amount of 50 + 50 = 100 must be added to the total price (next to the price of the card and the amount of cards ordered).

For example:

50,00 = 50 cards x 1,00 euro
50,00 oneside print
80,00 = 40 cards x 2,00 euro
50,00 oneside print

Ok, you can create multiple combinations with combo's of characteristics. But I need to add a fixed price. And I cant get it done.

The print is a fixed amount (in the example above 50). This price must not multiply with the quantity of cards that you order. The quantity of the cards needs only to multiply with the price of the card.

So there's a fixed price and a price that is variable by quantity and they need to multiply.
Can you tell me how to configure this?

Can you explain this to me with an example how to configure this?

Hi Nicolas,

Thnx for giving me a clear example. I thought it would be working like that, but I wanted to be really sure before taking a conclusion and buy Hikashop.

The option you give me with the characteristics fixed amounts is not flexible enough for the shop I want to build. This because of the multiple characteristics I want to use (colour 'at least 2', type of printing 'at least 3', amount 'flexible from 1 till 250'). In the webshop I want to make, you can order 1, 97, 28, 70, 39 or any card amount you want to have. If you multiply these flexible amounts with the characteristics, I have to fill in at least 1500 different price settings per product to make it work. This is way too much, so unfortunately Hikashop is no option for this shop. Or there has to be some kind of plugin where you can add some fixed price amounts at the checkout (something like the shipment plugin, only then with 3 kinds of printing as option). Maybe this is an option to work on the future???

Despite this conclusion I want to say that Hikashop looks great and feels great! To bad it doesnt fit this webshop.

Thnx for youre help!

That would be a great addition to the shop!

Another thing I ran into when testing Hikashop is a bug with a tabber plugin I use.
I want people to see the product description in different tabs to clarify all the given information. In the beginning, when going to the product page, the tabs work fine. But when you change/choose a characteristic the tabs dont work anymore. Can you tell me why this is? And do you got a solution for this problem? I think its got something to do with the reload of the page when you choose a characteristic. Maybe some java bug?
I use this tabber http://www.nonumber.nl/tabber

I like the looks with tabs and (if possible) would like to keep it in my design.

Hello smedia,

Regarding your tabber question, Nicolas addressed a similar problem I had in this post: www.hikashop.com/en/support/forum/3-bug-...eristic-changed.html

I was able to get it to work using his suggestion, but as stated in the post, you lose the ability to have different descriptions with each variation of a characteristic.

Regards,
Ed

Works like a charm!

Thnx for youre post Ed!

Nicolas,

So whitin two weeks you will have a Hikashop version with this option build inside?
I can get a deadline suspention from my client. But if I play this card, I have to have a confirmation that you really can deliver this new version whitin these 2 weeks in an alpha version.

Can you please give me confirmation about this?

I filled in a form to get me a pre release.

Still got another question though I want to place the Hykashop login module at a specific position so people can login at every page. I thought it would work the same like placing another module in Joomla, but there's no Hykashop login module to choose from in my backend.

Where can I find such a module?