Terms of Service on Checkout Page

[WHMCS John]

This simple template addition replaces the Terms of Service link on the checkout page with a text box into which you can paste your company's wording so that your clients can read it without navigating away from the order form. Clients are still required to tick the checkbox to indicate they have read the terms.

 

Open templates/orderforms/*your active template*/viewcart.tpl

 

Find:

 {if $accepttos}
 <p align="center">
   <input type="checkbox" name="accepttos" id="accepttos" />
   <label for="accepttos">{$LANG.ordertosagreement} <a href="{$tosurl}" target="_blank">{$LANG.ordertos}</a></label>
 <p> {/if}

Replace with:

 {if $accepttos}
 <p align="center">
<textarea rows="10" cols="100" readonly="readonly">

***INSERT YOUR TERMS AND CONDITIONS HERE IN PLAIN TEXT***


</textarea>
</p><p align="center">
   <input type="checkbox" name="accepttos" id="accepttos" />
   <label for="accepttos">{$LANG.ordertosagreement} {$LANG.ordertos} above.</label>
 </p> {/if}

 

Replace "***INSERT YOUR TERMS AND CONDITIONS HERE IN PLAIN TEXT***" with your own terms of service wording.

Upload and you're done!

 

 

Update: 24/05/2010 - Text area is no longer editable by the visitor. (Thanks to gs-liam).

[EasyWHMCS]

Cheers John

[GNS_Harrison]

thanks! alot

[rider]

This code is usefull but customer can modify the text.

 

That need to don't allow this

[EasyWHMCS]

  {if $accepttos}
 <p align="center">
<textarea rows="10" cols="100" readonly="readonly">

***INSERT YOUR TERMS AND CONDITIONS HERE IN PLAIN TEXT***


</textarea>
</p><p align="center">
   <input type="checkbox" name="accepttos" id="accepttos" />
   <label for="accepttos">{$LANG.ordertosagreement} {$LANG.ordertos} above.</label>
 </p> {/if}

 

If you use this code instead of what John has posted, your clients will not be able to edit the text

[bear]

Why make it a text area at all? As long as the TOS checkbox is within the form, it still works. I'm using this:

<div style="border:1px black solid; width:600px; height:200px; overflow:auto;">
{include file='/home/user/www/terms.html'}
<p align="center"><input type="checkbox" name="accepttos" id="accepttos" /> <labelfor="accepttos">{$LANG.ordertosagreement}{$LANG.ordertos}
</label><p>
</div>

It's in a scrolling DIV, and as it's text on the page, they can't edit. Bonus is that it's in a separate file so easily maintained, not overwritten by updates, and can have formatting.

[mediastream]

Why make it a text area at all? As long as the TOS checkbox is within the form, it still works. I'm using this:

<div style="border:1px black solid; width:600px; height:200px; overflow:auto;">
{include file='/home/user/www/terms.html'}
<p align="center"><input type="checkbox" name="accepttos" id="accepttos" /> <labelfor="accepttos">{$LANG.ordertosagreement}{$LANG.ordertos}
</label><p>
</div>

It's in a scrolling DIV, and as it's text on the page, they can't edit. Bonus is that it's in a separate file so easily maintained, not overwritten by updates, and can have formatting.

 

 

nice one bear!! thanks everyone. implemented looks great

[trader]

Thanks Guys, I have also found this post very useful

[fasthostonline]

thx guys, it very2 helpfull for me

[MikeP]

Why only plain text?

[uberhost]

Thanks John for starting this and to gs-liam and bear for the followups. I've implemented bear's version but pulled the checkbox out of the div so that those who don't wish to read and scroll can simply accept the terms and check out. Great work everyone!

 

Rick

[bear]

Why only plain text?

 

It's in a scrolling DIV, and as it's text on the page, they can't edit. Bonus is that it's in a separate file so easily maintained, not overwritten by updates, and can have formatting.

If it's not in a form field, you can indeed format it.

[uberhost]

Bear, your contributions to the WHMCS cause have merited a special badge my friend.

 

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Rick

[bear]

Spiffy, thanks!

[uberhost]

Spiffy, thanks!

 

You're welcome, mate. Keep all the helpful modification tips coming as they are quite helpful.

 

Rick

[Gears]

Can this be specified on a per-product basis? Different terms per product?

[peaceofmind]

Can this be specified on a per-product basis? Different terms per product?

 

I'd like to know the answer to that as well.

 

Marcy

[uberhost]

Can this be specified on a per-product basis? Different terms per product?

 

The simplest solution would be to put the terms for all products within a singe TOS, otherwise you'd have to do some custom coding to get it to pull a separate TOS per product.

 

Cheers,

Rick

[railto]

Why make it a text area at all? As long as the TOS checkbox is within the form, it still works. I'm using this:

<div style="border:1px black solid; width:600px; height:200px; overflow:auto;">
{include file='/home/user/www/terms.html'}
<p align="center"><input type="checkbox" name="accepttos" id="accepttos" /> <labelfor="accepttos">{$LANG.ordertosagreement}{$LANG.ordertos}
</label><p>
</div>

It's in a scrolling DIV, and as it's text on the page, they can't edit. Bonus is that it's in a separate file so easily maintained, not overwritten by updates, and can have formatting.

 

Thanks bear that is exactly the way I wanted it to rock, thanks so much

[Sel_888]

Awesome!!! worked like a charm, just that I make sure that I have an < h3 > titling above the div so that I tell people that they have to scroll to the bottom of the TOS to check the box in order to continue their order....

[hostand]

What did i do wrong that my terms and conditions are not showing up?, i repalce the below code on the viewcart.tpl of the boxes folder as thats what i am using.

 

 

<div style="border:1px black solid; width:600px; height:200px; overflow:auto;">

{include file='/public_html/billing/templates/orderforms/boxes/tos.html'}

 

<p align="center"><input type="checkbox" name="accepttos" id="accepttos" /> <labelfor="accepttos">{$LANG.ordertosagreement}{$LANG.ordertos}

</label>

<p> </div>

[bear]

'/public_html/billing/templates/orderforms/boxes/tos.html'

 

That doesn't appear to be the full address. Should be /home/user/public_html....or at the least relative to the doc root or file that's calling it.

/billing/...

../whatever...

[sparky]

for in the cart templates it is like this

{include file='$template/tos.html'}

[hostand]

thank you it worked, with full path, didn't with $template. Would it be too much to ask how i can have the I agree check box outside of the DIV? so they can see it easily?

[sparky]

The file would need to have been in your normal template directory eg.. templates/portal/tos.html

if it is in the cart directory, your case using the boxes theme would be

{include file="orderforms/boxes/tos.html"}

 

The path is relative to the templates directory

 

Else as bear sugested use the absolute full path