Hi Guys,

 

I have a client who would like to have an online ordering system, but not an actual store.

 

He wants the same functionality as a standard store, but instead of BUY NOW, he wants it to be ORDER NOW and the user basically fills out a form and the shop call them back.

 

This is basically because it is for custom fitting on old sports cars etc... so each product is so individual, it would be pointless to have people buy online when they need 4 tyres fitted or something...

 

Does OS Commerce/Magento etc... do something like this?

 

Cheers

 

tel

What he's asking for still falls under the umbrella of 'ecommerce', so still charge him a fair whack because it's unlikely you'll be able to find something that does this, so you'll have to make it yourself. Why not just suggest a contact form, where the invoice is then sent to the person? With something like this, there's too much room for error, particularly as the consumer is filling it in themselves. Consumers have a nasty habit of screwing stuff up.

Hi Guys,

 

I have a client who would like to have an online ordering system, but not an actual store.

 

He wants the same functionality as a standard store, but instead of BUY NOW, he wants it to be ORDER NOW and the user basically fills out a form and the shop call them back.

 

This is basically because it is for custom fitting on old sports cars etc... so each product is so individual, it would be pointless to have people buy online when they need 4 tyres fitted or something...

 

Does OS Commerce/Magento etc... do something like this?

 

Cheers

 

tel

 

wouldn't that be just a custom contact form? add items to basket then instead of sending to a checkout page, it emails the form to you! just modify oscommerce to do this or create a custom shopping cart system to do it

@ Traxor - yeah he knows it will cost him the same as a store and potentially more because we can't use an off the shelf solution for him :-)

 

I just wondered if there was a feature like this in an existing bit of software out there.

 

 

@ Faevilangel - a custom contact form would be the lowest level of what we are trying to do, this basically needs to be all the functionality of a shop without the payment process involved. When the user hits Checkout then it contacts the client and they arrange a quote and then payment upon completion of work... So to an extent, yes it would be a contact form, but a bit more complicated than that

with Cubecart you can set up 'print order form' as your payment gateway, once customer completes checkout they recieve a printout screen and teh store recieves an order which they can then follow up.

 

I'll be happy to help set it up if needed.

what darren said is a great set up

TopShopper will do quotations only and you can add as many information fields as you like for getting specialist information into the quotation.