Note - Lots of rambling until the 7th paragraph, skipped if you don't want the background) Hello fellow digital pointers, It is lazy as I am making this post and had one to many bottles of "thinking brew" trying to find a way around this situation. After many hours of google searching trying things first hand, and searching for an answer I am coming to you guys hoping someone can shed some light. I was kicked of Google Checkout because I kept going over then under then back over there chargeback limit rate, and they said I was to risky of a client and terminated me. Anyway I decided to go with 2checkout (paypal is not an option). 2Checkout looks great besides their high fee's, but I have already rationalized them for at least the time being in my own mind because less money from my sites which operate solely by credit card sales is better than no money at all. THE REAL PROBLEM : (finally) The problem I have is this, almost all of my product have product options, some 1, some as many as 9 (to declare things such as color, size, weight, etc) For some reason the way the 2checkout system works is a person adds the product to cart, and then on their shopping cart page decides which color and size etc. This makes it much more difficult on the buyer IMO because some people want to be able to look at the items in the different colors as they decide (and 99% of the world doesn't know how to use tabs) Especially women or camouflage (Which are two of my niches) who want to make sure they are choosing the correct color for their wardrobe or their environment, as it is a critial component of the merchandise -- as well as size, etc. The HTML code they supply you is just for either a add to cart buton/link or one that lets you pick the quantity, and you do not pick your color or sizing option until you are on the checkout page. There has to be a way around this video some sort of HTML code because I know with roman cart if you have it set up for the 2checkout module, you can pick the size and style on your site for that item, but the down side is the customer has to enter their name/address and non credit card information twice -- which could turn off some buyers. Can anyone shed some light on this for me? I think both would annoy users, having to pick color and size options on a seperate page and both typing in their information twice will infuriate a slow type
Once again, sorry if I rambled or scattered around a bit, I am just about to go to sleep and was hoping someone could give me some advice before I call 2 checkout in the morning. Cheer Joe
Thanks for the wonderful post, very helpful. Anyway to anyone wondering, I came to a solution using a 3rd party shopping cart so I got it all figured out.