Multiple Price Options

XLEcom's Multiple Price Options Add-to-Cart Form Generator Utility

Supports both Mal's and Paypal Shopping Carts. (Versions 4.0 and greater)

This Multiple Price Options Add-to-Cart Form Generator Utility is also offered as a stand-alone utility program independent of the XLEcom program. For more information, see the following page: Multiple Options Add-to-Cart Form Utility

Description
Use the utility on the Add-to-Cart worksheet to create custom Multiple Price Option Add-to-Cart HTML forms as a replacement to the automatically generated XLEcom Add-to-Cart code. This is not required but provided for advanced users who need to provide their customers with multiple prices for different options.

For your Information: If you are a Paypal user, you can still use Mal's e-commerce shopping cart. Mal's cart can port all final shopping cart transactions to Paypal if desired.

Supports

  • Both in-page and popup window type shopping carts.
  • Use up to three (3) drop-down option scroll boxes with each scroll box supporting up to 5 selections.
  • Use any International Currency Symbol.

Experiment with the sample data before entering your own data.

How it works
Simply enter your prices and options data into a table and press a button to generate the Multiple Price Options Add-to-Cart HTML form code. Press another button to automatically integrate the code into your Product Ads. See an example of the Multiple Price Options Add-to-Cart HTML form code below.

The image below illustrates a Mal's e-commerce Multiple Price Options Add-to-Cart form integrated within a Product Ad:

Important Note:
With Mal's e-commerce, you can utilize multiple item numbers with each having a different price within the same Add-to-Cart form. With Paypal, you can have only one item number and different prices within the same Add-to-Cart form. You therefore need to choose your options carefully if you are going to use multiple price options with Paypal. You can observe this behavior if you test the sample forms below. If you are a Paypal user, you can still use Mal's e-commerce shopping cart. Mal's cart can port all final shopping cart transactions to Paypal if desired.

Example of Mal's e-commerce Multiple Price Options Add-to-Cart HTML Form code:
The following Multiple Price Options Add-to-Cart HTML form code snippet is automatically integrated into your Product Ads. Your final published Product Ads will look similar to the one in the Product Ad image above.


XLEcom's Multiple Price Options Add-to-Cart Form

You can test the Add-to-Cart form below:



 

 

 



For Mal's e-commerce Shopping Cart (Type: Popup window)

 

Mal's e-commerce Shopping Cart results using the above Multiple Price Options Add-to-Cart form:

 Mal's e-commerce Multiple Price Option Add-to-Cart HTML Form

Form Tag Start:

<form action="http://ww7.aitsafe.com/cf/add.cfm" method="post" target="shopcart">

userid:

<input type="hidden" name="userid" value="98103224">

Required (no value):

<input type="hidden" name="price" value="">

Required (no value):

<input type="hidden" name="product[]" value="">

Item Number:

<input type="hidden" name="scode" value="A12345">

Show Quantity:

<input type="hidden" name="noqty" value="0">

Shipping Units:

<input type="hidden" name="units" value="0">

Tax:

<input type="hidden" name="tax" value="8.25">

Currency:

<input type="hidden" name="currency" value="3">

Language:

<input type="hidden" name="lg" value="0">

Return URL:

<input type="hidden" name="return" value="http://www.yourdomain.com/html/successful.html">

Quantity:

<input type="text" name="qty" size="3" value="1">

Select Tag Start:

<select name="productpr">

Item Name 1 : Price Option 1:

<option value="ABCO-15TTFB 15 inch display:150.00">ABCO-15TTFB 15 inch display ($150.00)

Item Name 2 : Price Option 2:

<option value="ABCO-17TTFB 17 inch display:250.00">ABCO-17TTFB 17 inch display ($250.00)

Item Name 3 : Price Option 3:

<option value="ABCO-19TTFB 19 inch display:350.00">ABCO-19TTFB 19 inch display ($350.00)

Item Name 4 : Price Option 4:

<option value="ABCO-20TTFB 20 inch display:450.00">ABCO-20TTFB 20 inch display ($450.00)

Item Name 5 : Price Option 5:

<option value="ABCO-24TTFB 24 inch display:950.00">ABCO-24TTFB 24 inch display ($950.00)

Option Tag End:

</option>

Select Tag End:

</select>

Select Tag Start:

<select name="product[]">

Additional Options 1:

<option value="Desktop Mount">Desktop Mount

Additional Options 2:

<option value="Wall Mount">Wall Mount

Option Tag End:

</option>

Select Tag End:

</select>

Select Tag Start:

<select name="product[]">

Additional Options 1:

<option value="Black">Black

Additional Options 2:

<option value="Silver">Silver

Option Tag End:

</option>

Select Tag End:

</select>

Line Break:

<br>

Line Break:

<br>

Submit:

<input type="image" name="submit" src="../images/add-to-cart-01.gif" border="0" alt="Add to Cart" OnClick="window.open('','shopcart','scrollbars,resizable,status,width=600,height=400')">

Form Tag End:

</form>

Example of Paypal's Multiple Price Options Add-to-Cart HTML Form code:
The following Multiple Price Options Add-to-Cart HTML form code snippet is automatically integrated into your Product Ads. Your final published Product Ads will look similar to the one in the Product Ad image above.

Strictly for comparison purposes, the following Paypal example is basically identical to the above Mal's example. It is not a good example, but it shows you that you must choose your options carefully since the Paypal Add-to-Cart form supports only one item number (see the HTML code below). If you need to utilize Multiple Price Options, then it would be better to use Mal's shopping cart because Mal's supports multiple items numbers.


XLEcom's Multiple Price Options Add-to-Cart Form

You can test the Add-to-Cart form below:



 

 

 



For Paypal's Shopping Cart (Type: Popup window)

 

Paypal's Shopping Cart results using the above Multiple Price Options Add-to-Cart form:

 PayPal's Multiple Price Option Add-to-Cart HTML Form

Form Tag Start:

<form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post" target="paypal">

Required (_cart):

<input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart">

userid:

<input type="hidden" name="business" value="demo_only@xlecom.com">

Required (1):

<input type="hidden" name="add" value="1">

Required (1):

<input type="hidden" name="undefined_quantity" value="1">

Item Name:

<input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="ABCO 15TTFB Black Flat Panel 15 inch LCD Display">

Item Number:

<input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="A12345">

Shipping:

<input type="hidden" name="shipping" value="10">

Additional Shipping / Handeling:

<input type="hidden" name="shipping2" value="5">

Handling:

<input type="hidden" name="handling" value="3">

Tax:

<input type="hidden" name="tax" value="8.25">

Currency:

<input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD">

Logo Image URL:

<input type="hidden" name="image_url" value="https:/www.yourdomain.com/images/companylogo.gif">

Return URL:

<input type="hidden" name="return" value="http://www.yourdomain.com/html/successful.html">

Cancel URL:

<input type="hidden" name="cancel_return" value="http://www.yourdomain.com/html/canceled.html">

Quantity:

<input type="text" name="quantity" size="3" value="1">

Select Tag Start:

<select name="amount">

Price Option 1:

<option value="150.00">Price 1 ($150.00)

Price Option 2:

<option value="250.00">Price 2 ($250.00)

Price Option 3:

<option value="350.00">Price 3 ($350.00)

Price Option 4:

<option value="450.00">Price 4 ($450.00)

Price Option 5:

<option value="950.00">Price 5 ($950.00)

Option Tag End:

</option>

Select Tag End:

</select>

Required (Selected):

<input type="hidden" name="on0" value="Selected">

Select Tag Start:

<select name="os0">

Additional Options 1:

<option value="Desktop Mount">Desktop Mount

Additional Options 2:

<option value="Wall Mount">Wall Mount

Option Tag End:

</option>

Select Tag End:

</select>

Required (Selected):

<input type="hidden" name="on1" value="Selected">

Select Tag Start:

<select name="os1">

Additional Options 1:

<option value="Black">Black

Additional Options 2:

<option value="Silver">Silver

Option Tag End:

</option>

Select Tag End:

</select>

Line Break:

<br>

Line Break:

<br>

Submit:

<input type="image" name="submit" src="../images/add-to-cart-01.gif" border="0" alt="Add to Cart" OnClick="window.open('','paypal','scrollbars,resizable,status,width=600,height=400')">

Form Tag End:

</form>


Instructions:

    [1] First fill out the Item Name / Price Option Set table below with your Shopping Cart data options.

    [2] Select an Item Name / Price Option Set from the drop-down scroll box. Selecting an item will retrieve the selected item data from the Item Name / Price Option Set table and create a temporary Add-to-Cart HTML form.

    [3] Select a Product Ad from the drop-down scroll box. Making a selection will retrieve the selected Product Ad from the Database and place it into the Design form on the Product Design sheet. In this step, the newly created Add-to-Cart form code is not yet transferred back to either the Design form or the Database sheet but is displayed in the large preview cell. Refer to step [6] to transfer the Add-to-Cart form code back to the Database sheet.

    [4] To preview both the pure Add-to-Cart form code and the HTML aligned Add-to-Cart form code used for the Product Ad in your web browser, press the Preview Add-to-Cart Form button.

    [5] To preview the new Product Ad. press the Preview HTML Product Ad button. This will transfer the Add-to-Cart form code to the Design Form on the Product Design sheet and display the results in your web browser. If you are not satisfied with the results, you can always press the Refresh button on the Product Design sheet to re-retrieve the original data from the Database.

    [6] To transfer the new Add-to-Cart form code back into the Database's Custom Add-to-Cart Form field for the selected Product Ad, press the Transfer Form to Database button.

If you prefer to manually add the Add-to-Cart form code to the Custom Add-to-Cart Form field in the Database, then refer to the instructions presented in the HTML preview page. To have these instructions displayed on the HTML preview page, check the Display Manual Instructions check box.

Home Page Special Product Ads
If you place a Product Ad that contain a custom Add-to-Cart form onto the home page as a Home Page Special, then both the Add-to-Cart form and button on this page will be replaced with a text hyperlink such as "More Information". Clicking on the text hyperlink will take the customer to the specific product page that contains the ad where they can then purchase the product.

Cell Color Conventions
Red colored font values are user data cells. Edit these values only. The values in Magenta are created on the fly by the program. The values in Blue contain non-editable formulas.