Additional Specials During Checkout

[igavemybest]

You can find this on GoDaddy.com as well as many other very successful sites... during checkout, a page, or pages is displayed to show additional discounted items or services that a customer could add to their order with a click of a button. Has anyone implemented this, or have any suggestions as to the best way to do this?

[Robbie@FireFold]

I like this. Bump for a great idea.

[igavemybest]

Do you know if there is any way to attach a button to an item that would add it to the cart? Until AbleCommerce makes this an addition, I could just make up my own page and have buttons attached to the items. Anyone know the codebehind for this?

[jmestep]

If you want to do it on a product by product basis, the Product Accessories show up after a customer clicks to add a product to the basket- they show on the next page instead of the basket. Nothing shows up further in the checkout process, though.

[igavemybest]

No, thats not what I am after. I am going for an entire page dedicated after the checkout processes has started and the decision to buy has already been made.

[jmestep]

I thought that is what you first wanted, so I didn't reply since Able didn't do that. Then I thought you might be looking for a different way when you asked this:

Do you know if there is any way to attach a button to an item that would add it to the cart? Until AbleCommerce makes this an addition, I could just make up my own page and have buttons attached to the items.

So you mean just a button/buttons you can put anywhere that adds a product to the cart?
You can use the Conlib/AddToCartLink.ascx and add parameters to show the image and/or link text. Those parameters are defined at the the top of the code. You would call it like
[[Conlib:AddToCartLink ProductId="123" ShowImage="true" LinkText="Whatever you want"]]
You can probably add several of them to one page- I haven't tested it.

[igavemybest]

Ahh, that is what I am looking for. I will try it out and let you know how it goes.