CSCART: How to incorporate Product Samples on Product detail Pages

Question

I am working on a site that sell Fabric Items, I have used CSCART as a Shopping Cart Solution for this. I ran into a problem, let me describe it briefly:

The website Owner wants to incorporate Product samples (which he calls it a Swatch [Definition: A sample, esp. of fabric.]). He needs a button on the Product Detail page which will work the same way as "Add to cart", instead of adding that Specific product into the cart it will add the swatch and the swatch price into the cart

In order to acaheive this:

1. I created a "swatch product".

But the problem arises is that, if someone ADD Swatch Product to his cart and checkout how come the administrator can know of which product the swatch is requested.

Is there any solution to solve this problem?

Thanks.

Answer 1

You can use product options feature of cscart. So you have to define swatch option along with price for that product. Now you just have to change layout of product detail page so whenever customer add swatch product to buy, product option will be used. In that case admin can see which products swatch option is ordered.

To know more about product options please visit this link - http://docs.cs-cart.com/4.3.x/user_guide/manage_products/options/product_options.html

Hope this will solve your purpose.