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Perch shop product options

Hi all

How can I make a perch product option a user selectable date field or text box that they could type a date into

Thanks

Ant

Anthony Elleray

Anthony Elleray 2 points

  • 5 years ago
Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan 2638 points
Perch Support

You can't do that. Options are defined based on the products being sold, not on customer input.

Will this be somthing in development or on trello ?

Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan 2638 points
Perch Support

Could you explain what you're trying to achieve?

i want to sell a product called "2 Day Kayaking Tour"

but when the user buys the product i need them to tell me their two preferred dates to do the activity

Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan 2638 points
Perch Support

That's the card on the roadmap labelled "Product customisations".

Ok thanks

could really do with this function by september 2016 :) i have voted on trello

Rachel Andrew

Rachel Andrew 394 points
Perch Support

We can't give guarantees about when any particular feature will be available - sorry!

If this is the only thing you are selling, or people will only be buying one thing at a time, you could make the dates a cart-property? Though this isn't ideal of course

Could I not add a text field on the address

Yep - if you set it as a cart-property too then it will then appear at the bottom of the order in Perch, under Additional Information. I am using this for contact phone numbers for orders. So something like

<perch:input type="date" id="arrivaldate" required="true" cart-property="preferred-date" label="Preferred Date" />
Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan 2638 points
Perch Support

By not saving - what do you mean? What happens?

I have managed to make it work - my fault was doiung it wrong

however can it be added to email templates ?

Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan 2638 points
Perch Support

Didn't you already do this, or am I thinking of someone else?