Add same product to cart with two line items

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We are using a third-party extension to offer room reservations. This extension has no built-in checkout process, and a very limited range of checkout plugins. We are also using Hikashop to sell physical products, and would like to integrate the reservation system into Hikashop's checkout process.

I have created a single "umbrella" product in Hikashop - all reservations will use product ID when they are added to the cart. I have created a plugin which successfully adds the product to the session cart as a reservation is finalized. However, if more than one reservation is finalized in the same session, Hikashop will consolidate all reservation products into a single line-item in the cart. Is there a way to force Hikashop to consider each addition of a single product ID as a separate line-item?

Hi,

I think that the easiest way would be to create a custom item field, and populate that field when adding the product to the cart.
That way it will display one item per line, and you can do a little view override to not display the custom item field info in the cart.

I've looked at [Display -> Custom Fields]. When I try to add a new one, the table is hard-coded to "address". Will this affect a cart product record in the way you describe?

Looking at the feature guide, it appears this option is only available for products with the "Essential" or "Business" version. Is that correct? Is there any way to accomplish this with the "Starter" version we are currently using?

Hi,

Yes my bad, these kind of custom fields are only available in the commercial versions of HikaShop. I forgot to mention it.
So in your case there could be another solution, it's to edit the view "checkout / cart", "product / cart", the order views and emails too and edit the code of the foreach of the products in order to display an item with a certain quantity in as many line as its quantity.

So a bit more work, but it is possible.

That will not affect the model, though. The reservations do not all have the same price. It is a real possibility for multiple reservations during a session. Each reservation's price would be affected by date(s), number of attendees, and some other attributes. I'm not adverse to overriding the views, but I am very hesitant to override the model... we would like to preserve the upgrade path.

Do you have any other recommendations?

We have purchased and installed the Business version of HikaShop, and I have set up a custom field. Do you have an example of how I can set this programmatically?

My plugin is hooking into the Koparent extension as it completes a reservation. The config page for the plugin allows the admin to designate on which Hikashop product id it should act ($this->_hikapid, after initialization).

As my plugin is loaded, I instantiate the cart like this:

$this->_hikacart = hikashop_get('class.cart');
      $this->_hikacart->loadCart();
      $this->_hikacartitems = $this->_hikacart->get();

$this->_hikacart->update($this->_hikapid,1)