Order Form Customization Help Really Needed

[JamesWill]

Hi, I REALLY need help doing TWO Things:

 

1. Create a Single Page Order Form Similar to the HostGator Shared Hosting ORDER FORM.

 

2. I need to be able to create an Order Form Page, where I take the clients DOMAIN NAME only and then push them directly to CHECKOUT - where number of years, coupon, etc is all PRE-CONFIGURED.

 

Can anyone please direct me to where I can find the info to do these things please

 

Any help would really be appreciated.

[WHMCS Chris]

Hello,

The HostGator pages are customized - however you can see how it's achieved by checking out HostGator.in

 

 

ex: http://hostgator.in/shared

 

Very similar to the US brand, but hover over the Order Now buttons & look at the links. They are the product links that you find in WHMCS >> Products/Services >> Products >> Edit A Product >> Links tab

 

So you can build your own, and link within.

[JamesWill]

Thanks WHMCS Chris,

 

I get that - but, I guess I am looking for more detailed information about:

 

If I just wanted to start with my own BLANK ORDER form - where could I go to get a TEMPLATE to start from?

[WHMCS Chris]

Hello,

 

Well - we offer the standard templates. Alternatively, companies like WHMCSThemes.com offer free templates.

 

There's a large amount of other companies - Google.com would shed more light.

[JamesWill]

Thank you - I apologize if I was sounding rude or not appreciative

I am just a bad communicator.

 

I appreciate those suggestions and the themes on whmcsthemes do look real good...

 

BUT (I know) - what I am REALLY getting at is the underlying code and syntax of the order forms...

 

For example, say I wanted to create a single FORM, where you just click GO (or enter domain name and click GO) and it takes client directly to CHECKOUT screen - with, product id, billing cycle, coupon code, etc. - pre-entered for the customer...

 

Do you know of any resources ? I have googled many times terms like "whmcs order form customization" whmcs order form syntax" etc. and I never find anything that really helps me

 

Again, I totally apologize in advance if I have once again not communicated or sounded rude

 

Thank you again for your help!

[WHMCS Chris]

Hey James,

 

No need to apologize - I bare that burden as well sometimes.

That being said, I didn't actually believe you were being rude or short.

 

So WHMCS uses what's called Smarty Syntax to build it's templates (http://www.smarty.net). It's pretty straight forward as far as programming languages go.

 

All the WHMCS templates are opened source inside of /path/to/whmcs/templates/orderforms/

 

What I would recommend, is find one you like - probably modern cart - and start deleting stuff. If you want simple, this is a quick approach.

 

Alternatively - you could use the below form which is specially designed to allow users to input a domain name and go directly to the shopping cart.

 

<form action="http://domain.com/whmcs/cart.php?a=add&domain=register" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="token" value="SOMENUMBERS" />
Domain: <input type="text" name="sld" size="20" /> <select name="tld">
<option>.com</option>
</select>
<input type="submit" value="Go" />
</form>

 

This bit is found under Utilities >> Integration Code

 

With some nice CSS, header/footer, and the above, you can achieve your goal.

 

However, if you have no design/programming experience, you may want to contact ModulesGarden.com, or WHMCSThemes.com. Both are active on this forum, and very nice people. They would likely be able to build what you need if you're again, unfamiliar with web design.

[JamesWill]

Thank you Chris - totally appreciate the help!

[WHMCS Chris]

Anytime - maybe someone else can chime in with something they've done.

 

I like your idea, by the way.

[DavidBee]

Hey,

 

As Chris mentioned this can be done via URL.

 

I tested something out on a shared product before. I used the "modern" order form and the steps went like "Pick Product from Website > Configure Domain > Checkout" . We simply cut WHMCS down to just two steps where before it was 4. Domain > Configure Product > View > Checkout

 

We figured making the sign up process easier would increase sale rates and stop people leaving the cart while proceeding via the steps.

 

I'm unable to remember off the top of the head the variable we used in the URL for it to skip product config but will post it later.

 

I think WHMCS should have a VERY basic theme with no no major worry around styling. Just a simple structure that will allow devs to have all the required files in place

 

One of the best one page order forms I have seen around for WHMCS is eleven2: https://www.eleven2.com/order/?pid=63&pc=SPRINGSALE13

 

Before proceeding to the cart you pick billing terms and location then the one page cart.

[onliner]

 

I'm unable to remember off the top of the head the variable we used in the URL for it to skip product config but will post it later.

 

I'm trying to achieve this as well. Did you actually changed some internal linking in core files of the current template, OR did you just used customized direct linking to WHMCS?

 

I've tried different solutions found at http://docs.whmcs.com/Linking_to_WHMCS but none of them could create your result. In other words, none of them allow me to 'skip' product configuration and make order process just 2 steps.

 

I would really appreciate if you could share your 'magical' order link setup with us

 

Thanks in advance!

[onliner]

Solution:

 

Use

 

&skipconfig=1

 

in order URL.

 

At http://docs.whmcs.com/Linking_to_WHMCS it said:

 

It's possible to skip the configuration page entirely provided you have defined all the configurable option values in the URL by adding &skipconfig=1 to your order URL. If there is any configuration missing, then this would generate an error and force the client to edit the configuration. eg:

 

http://demo.whmcs.com/cart.php?a=add&pid=5&customfield[1]=Friday&skipconfig=1

[gfdh]

This is EXACTLY what I want to do, did you end up accomplishing this? Could you tell me how if so?