Miva’s Quick Order functionality allows your website customers to quickly and efficiently add products, singularly or in bulk, to their shopping cart, expediting the buying process and making purchases easier.
With the release of version 10.08.02, the Miva admin now includes the Quick Order Flex Component, which can be added to your website pages via PageBuilder.
To add the component to a page, navigate to User Interface>Content Management and select the page you wish to work on. Once on the page, click the Add Component button and select the Quick Order component.
The component is customizable. On the left rail of the page, you can change the Component Name, the Heading Text and Alignment, and whether or not you will allow Bulk and CSV Imports. Each of the import options have customizable sections as well.
When the component appears the way you want, click Save.
Your website customers will see the Quick Order component when they visit the page(s) you have added it to, and it looks exactly like you have configured it as explained above.
A customer can enter a search term in the “Search for a product…” field. The search suggests items as the field is filled. For example, if a customer types “T-shi” and you have a T-shirt product, the website will display the product.
The customer would then click on the product, adjust their desired number of that product, and then click the Add to Cart button. If the product has attributes, for example in the case above, for sizes of the shirt, those attributes are selectable in the Quick Order box. The customer can also add additional products in the subsequent fields to their cart the same way as above.
The customer can also add additional rows for more products if the default five search fields isn’t enough.
The Quick Order Flex Component has a flex-property, which can be found by navigating to Advanced>Display Settings>Search Method and it has options for “Runtime” & “Code” to control how products can be searched for and selected.
Regardless of the Search Method setting, when performing the Bulk & CSV imports, the import will only load products where the imported code equals a product code in the store.
If your customer clicks the Bulk Import link, they are able to submit a list of products, and their desired quantities, which will then be loaded into the Quick Order fields.
If your customer clicks the CSV Import link, they are able to upload a Comma-Separated Values, or CSV file, to the Quick Order section.
The Bulk & CSV Imports are parsed according to this column specification:
To provide attribute values, specify the attribute’s code in one column (ex. “color”), followed by the attribute’s value (“red”) in the next column.
To provide subscription values, specify “subscription_term_descrip” in one column, followed by the subscription-term description (ex. “Reorder annually”) in the next column.
The attribute and subscription value-pairs can be repeated as needed to provide any number of product-attributes & subscriptions.
The attribute and subscription value-pairs can be put into any order (i.e. a subscription-value pair can come before or after an attribute-value pair).
The imports are parsed according to RFC 4180, with some of the main items to consider being:
Here is some example Bulk or CSV text, that shows some simple and complex import formats.
simple-product, 1
another-product, 10
with-attributes, 1, size, small, color, green, terms, true
with-subscription, 1, subscription_term_descrip, Reorder annually
with-attributes-and-subscription, 1, color, green, subscription_term_descrip, Reorder annually
with-escaping, 1, message, "The message, ""Hello World!"" is such a generic message"