Glossary Item Box
Product Options allow you to offer customizable products to your customers. You can use them to offer different sizes, colors, custom text for engravings, etc...You can also optionally add a cost for an option that will be added to the product's base price when chosen. We recommend that you read through the topics in this section in order to get a good understanding of the Options feature.
There are several different types of options you can choose from to handle a wide variety of product configurations. Squirrelcart supports an unlimited number of options, and you can combine any (or all!) of them on a single product record. The section below demonstrates the use of each type of option. Specific instructions for creating each option type can be found in other topics in this section.
Select options are very powerful. They allow you to offer a customer multiple choices, and can be configured in many different ways.
Default Functionality
Select options use HTML select inputs by default.
Allowing Multiple Selections
If you configure a Select option to allow multiple selections, Squirrelcart displays the choices using checkboxes to make it easier for customers to make selections:
Allowing Multiple Selections with Quantity Fields
If you configure a Select option to allow multiple selections AND to allow quantities to be entered, the customer will see something like this:
You can also use a drop down field for the quantities if you prefer, with predefined values:
Text options allow you to gather input from your customers. This is useful for engravings, logos, etc...
Textarea options allow you to get multiple lines of input from your customers. This is useful for such things as greeting card messages.
Checkbox options are used when you want to give a "yes or no" type of choice.
Radio Button choices are similar to Select options, in that the customer gets to choose between 2 or more choices. The only difference is that the choices appear as radio buttons instead of in a select input.
File Upload
File Upload options allow your customers to associate one or more image files with a product. This can be used to accept customer provided images for items such as t-shirts, brochures, etc...
Variable Price
Variable Price options allow your customers to enter a price themselves. This can be used for donations, custom payments, or anytime you need your customers to be able to specify the amount they wish to pay.
Date, Date and Time
Date options allow you to obtain a date from your customers using a calendar date picker. Date and Time options work exactly the same but allow them to also choose a time.
Option Quantity Field
For all of the option types above, you can add an optional quantity field. This will allow the customer to specify how many of each option they wish to order. This is enabled by checking the Show Quantity Field checkbox on the product option's record in the control panel. When enabled, a new fieldset will appear which controls how the quantity field looks and functions:
For help with each field, move your cursor over the field name.
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