Convert Wish Lists to Managed Quotes

[lesliekirk]

Sort of an interesting situation. Every winter the store owner either closes the store or lets customers order with the understanding that orders won't ship until around April (it works for this particular business). Also during this time her buyers are going to "Market" to place product orders for new inventory. She would like to be able to gather suggestions from her customers (based on what is currently on the site). This is where it gets complicated. She needs a way to turn off all ordering but be able to keep the store open for customers to either build Wish Lists or Managed Quotes to send her.

I'm thinking since you can build a Managed Quote if the products can't be added to the basket, the suggestions could be built using the Wish List. Unlike Manged Quotes, Wish Lists don't have the ability to send directly to the store owner, do they? That's where the question, can Wish Lists be converted to Managed Quotes came into my head.

I may be totally over-thinking this. I do seem to recall that Kent Multer may have an app to turn off all ordering so that might fit part of the solution.

All suggestions are welcome.

[Kent Multer]

Yes, my "Modulator" utility can be used to easily take a store in and out of "window shopping mode," in which all the pages can be viewed, but add-to-cart and checkout are disabled.

[Nick]

lesliekirk You could probably achieve this using template code, page custom fields, and the Manage Quote module. On BASK you could add a page custom field for "Able to checkout" that the store owner could toggle on or off. Template code can be written to check the page custom field and using <mvt:if> display the checkout button if toggled on or display the create quote button if toggled off. You could add some other checks on the remaining checkout pages to have the page 302 redirect if the toggle is off.

Using the Manage Quotes module gives you more functionality with the ability to email and automatically change the quote to an order in the admin. Where as using the whish list functionality you would probably need to code in a number of customizations to get what the customer needs.

[Kent Multer]

"Page custom fields?" Sorry, I hadn't heard of that before. Is it a new thing in 10.08? Is there any documentation?

[Nick]

Kent Multer Here is the page documenting Page Custom fields: https://docs.miva.com/miva10/referen...om-page-fields

[lesliekirk]

I think this may have already been posted as a Dream/Wish feature but it would be great to have a built-in "switch" similar to Maintenance Mode or an option to Maintenance Mode that would allow the store owner to choose if the store should be completely unavailable or just not available to order.

[delcorsets]

I think this may have already been posted as a Dream/Wish feature but it would be great to have a built-in "switch" similar to Maintenance Mode or an option to Maintenance Mode that would allow the store owner to choose if the store should be completely unavailable or just not available to order.

This could be a very useful setting in certain situations. We were in difficult spot during Hurricane Ian where we had to put our entire store into Maintenance Mode as we were unable to fulfill orders for an indeterminate amount of time. We lost a lot of site ranking during that time. It would have been very helpful to have an option to simply turn off ordering but still have the Maintenance message to explain the situation to shoppers and keep them updated on expected re-opening dates.

In our case we ended up using template branches to create an alternate site with status updates and limited products we could fulfill from a triage warehouse, but it took a bit of work to get it all sorted out.. having an instant solution during a stressful time would have been a game changer.

[Bruce - PhosphorMedia]

Coming back to this...
am i missing something basic, or is there no current way to create a managed quote from the cart or wish list?
if not, what's the possibility we could do this behind the scenes?
and if not...why the heck not? seems pretty basic to make the customer do the leg work and then submit the order for a quote instead of paying for it.

[lesliekirk]

Coming back to this...
am i missing something basic, or is there no current way to create a managed quote from the cart or wish list?
if not, what's the possibility we could do this behind the scenes?
and if not...why the heck not? seems pretty basic to make the customer do the leg work and then submit the order for a quote instead of paying for it.

You can create a Managed Quote from the cart. From a Wish List, I am not sure. I've done an Add to Cart one here. Go back to the docs and review the Submit Quote Form section.

Of course, I could be completely not understanding what you are asking...

[Bruce - PhosphorMedia]

yea. turned out to be template error. we're adding this to a older version of shadows.