Putting this out to the experts out there in hopes someone has a better idea than me.
I have a client I am moving from Zen cart. They are a powder coating shop.
For each product, the customer can choose a color. The problem is, there are over 100 colors to choose from. Also, the color names mean nothing to the customer...they need to see a swatch. The complicate it even further, colors are broken into Stock and Metallic. With metallic having an upcharge of 1/2 the base price of the product.
How I'm doing this in Zen is: I have a plain text field for the color. With Javascript, on page load I lock the field. I then have a graphic link that launches a popup. This popup has all the colors listed in a large graphic....image mapped with the color values. A customer can click on a color.....it will take the value and populate the text field on the cart page and close the popup window.
For the stock or metallic selection, I have a two radio buttons. The same color popup either chooses the stock radio button or the metallic radio button when the color is selected.
I opened another thread on if it's possible to have the attribute be priced dynamically here:
http://extranet.mivamerchant.com/for...ice-be-dynamic
Does anyone know if this is still the best way to do this in Miva? Basically, the issue is the total number of colors is large and the customer needs to see the colors to make a choice.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated!!
-Kevin
I have a client I am moving from Zen cart. They are a powder coating shop.
For each product, the customer can choose a color. The problem is, there are over 100 colors to choose from. Also, the color names mean nothing to the customer...they need to see a swatch. The complicate it even further, colors are broken into Stock and Metallic. With metallic having an upcharge of 1/2 the base price of the product.
How I'm doing this in Zen is: I have a plain text field for the color. With Javascript, on page load I lock the field. I then have a graphic link that launches a popup. This popup has all the colors listed in a large graphic....image mapped with the color values. A customer can click on a color.....it will take the value and populate the text field on the cart page and close the popup window.
For the stock or metallic selection, I have a two radio buttons. The same color popup either chooses the stock radio button or the metallic radio button when the color is selected.
I opened another thread on if it's possible to have the attribute be priced dynamically here:
http://extranet.mivamerchant.com/for...ice-be-dynamic
Does anyone know if this is still the best way to do this in Miva? Basically, the issue is the total number of colors is large and the customer needs to see the colors to make a choice.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated!!
-Kevin
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