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Submitted by rdentry on Tue, 09/18/2007 - 15:21
rdentry
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Ubercart rocks! Great Job

I am using ubercart for an event registration. There is only one event, so there is only one product. Aside from ease of usability, I am mainly using Ubercart because of the option of using Website Payments Pro (this is required for the project). I have everything working great. Is there a way to (I know this is silly given the name Ubercart) disable the cart so that the user enters the quantity and proceeds straight to checkout. Even better if there is a url I can link to that goes straight to the checkout area with that product automatically inserted. I currently have the add to cart redirect set on "cart/checkout" as opposed to the default "cart". This would do the trick if the product was not added to the cart at checkout. Example: (I clicked the link to checkout, and the amount is $100. I process everything, exit the page, click on the product to checkout again, and the amount is $200. I know that this is because it is still adding these products to the cart. Not to sure of the most efficient way to complete this, so any help would be greatly appreciated. As I said before, everything is working fine, I just want to bypass the cart and head straight to checkout. Would be great if there is a url like "node/33/checkout"

Thanks in advance!
permalink #1 Tue, 09/18/2007 - 15:37
Lyle

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AdministratoreLiTe!

I tried setting the cart redirect to /cart/checkout on my site, and it seems to work just fine. What are you doing when you "process everything, exit the page and click on the product to checkout again"? Does it show you have two products to buy or one that costs twice as much?

permalink #2 Tue, 09/18/2007 - 15:53
rdentry
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Say that you have entered 2 tickets, the order is for $200 ($100 a piece). If something happened and the user had to change his order to only buy 1 ticket, currently the only way to do this is to navigate back with the browser and change the order. But When the quantity is changed from 2 to 1 and you fill in the correct info and proceed to the review page the cost is now $300 because the quantity change does not edit the initial purchase it adds a new one to the cart. Not sure what to do.

permalink #3 Tue, 09/18/2007 - 16:05
Lyle

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On my checkout screen I count three separate links back to the shopping cart: the cart block, the breadcrumb, and the message saying I added something to my cart.

If you think your customers will click the Back button without seeing those, you maybe should put the redirect back to /cart.

permalink #4 Tue, 09/18/2007 - 16:22
rdentry
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I see the message saying I added something to my cart, but not the breadcrumb or cart block. Where do I go to enable these?

permalink #5 Tue, 09/18/2007 - 16:32
rdentry
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I actually think that I do not want to bypass the cart, but instead have a menu item which links to the cart to enter in the quantity of tickets. Currently you have to 1.click on the product "ticket" 2.checkout form 3.review form. I would like to have it so 1.User picks a link from a dropdown menu. 3.redirects to the cart (to pick quantity) 3.continues to checkout 4.review form *link back to the cart to change quantity.

permalink #6 Mon, 09/24/2007 - 09:05
Ryan

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rdentry, something like this will be possible w/ the cart links API that is coming up in the future. However, if you've got the skills or want to hire someone for an hour or so, you could get a custom form that does what you're looking for. Any module can use the Ubercart functions to add products to a cart and move to the checkout page.