Add sample product with price to each existing

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My client need to add a sample at a price of $1 to each of her products. The products are uploaded from her in-house POS system so it will need to be added automatically to all products. They will need to know which product the sample is for, and extra shipping will not be charged. Can you describe the best way to do this? Thanks.

I'm sorry, I'm not much of a coder.
I have added a product: fabricsandfringe.com/cart/fabrics-fringe...ct/1200311568-sample
And a custom field: (I do not have an "item" table, but I have a product table. I think this name was changed to sync with their POS. Anyway, I added the text field labeled "Sample" with column name "sample"

And I inserted this code:
<a href="http://http://fabricsandfringe.com/cart/index.php?option=com_hikashop&ctrl=product&task=updatecart&quantity=1&checkout=1&product_id=sample&data[item][Sample]=product_name">Order a Sample</a>

But I'm sure I did something wrong somewhere. Could you take a look and see where I made the error(s)? Thanks in advance.

View here:
fabricsandfringe.com/cart/fabric-categor...ber-black-candy-pink

Yes, we have the business edition. I do not have a table "item" please see attached screen shot of my choices. I don't know if the table names were changed due to a custom bridge for the client's POS system.

Hi,

"Yard" is not a default type, that's maybe the item one which has been renamed.
Thanks to try this type.

Allright, I renamed "Yard" back to item, and created the custom field. Can you help me with my code here:

<a href="http://http://fabricsandfringe.com/cart/index.php?option=com_hikashop&ctrl=product&task=updatecart&quantity=1&checkout=1&product_id=sample&data[item][Sample]=product_name">Order a Sample</a>

I am not really a coder, so I need advice if the above is correct. Thank you so much for your help thus far.

Thank you very much, it works. I only have one more request, I need to return the product name of which the "sample" is to be from. Can we append it to Sample - "Product Name" in the order form? You see, the sample is to be a swatch of any of the products, but they will need to know which product to take the swatch from. Thanks in advance for all your help.

Hi,

Sorry I'm not sure to understand correctly what you need.
Could you give more details, example, screenshot ?

Sure,
Each product can have a sample. When the customer orders, we must know which product they want to sample to be from.
So on the product page, (attachment 1), when the customer adds the sample to their cart, we would like to return to product category, instead of "sample" category.

When the sample is placed in the cart, we need the product name appended to the Sample name (see attachment 2) so both the customer and the client knows what product to cut the sample from.

Thanks again for your help. I will be installing yet another Hikashop cart shortly. It is my cart of choice

Hi,

Ok so to understand correctly, you have only one product named "sample" and you need to specify the product from where the customer added the sample.

I think that this will require a plugin based on the function "onBeforeCartUpdate()", add a parameter in the url which will be the id of the current product, and then you can manage things to change the product name from "sample" to "sample of XXX" for example.

A work around could be to simply create as may samples as you have products, and specify the id of each sample in the corresponding product page. You can use the custom product fields to specify his id and get it dynamically for the url.

www.hikashop.com/support/support/documen...umentation.html#cart

Work around is not an option with thousands of products being served from POS server. So you are recommending I hire a programmer or this plugin?

Hi,

As it is not available by default in HikaShop, yes I recommend to hire a developer for that.
You can potentially use the "commercial jobs" part of this forum to post your request.