Need more info from customers during purchase proc

I have a customer who sells pet portraits. The purchase process is more than I can really handle with a form (I don't have the skills to make the form do complicated math) so I've opted to go the e-shop way.

In addition to the usual name, address, phone, email, etc that standard shops allow for, I need another 6 text boxes and 2 text areas (for details of the pet). Can I set this up in HikaShop or should I do this in a form (I'm guessing I can't pass this info to HikaShop from the form - I use Smartformer), have the form email the details to the client, and then have the form redirect to the shop?

I'm really quite lost as to how to proceed. Any help would be appreciated.

Hi,

In the Business edition of HikaShop, you can go in the menu Display->Custom fields in order to create new custom fields of the table "order". They will be displayed on the checkout so that you can ask more information to the user regarding his order.
If it's information on the user itself, you can create custom fields of the table "user".