I would like customers to complete a custom survey so we can gauge which product is most right for them.
My idea is to use a form to collect the customers answers and run a function to determine the product they need.
Is this possible using a shopify theme?
I am very confused on integrating custom logic into a theme
If the logic for the survey is written in Javascript and the function that determines the product is written in Javascript it will be possible.
To be more precise if you don't use the Shopify forms logic, but custom code everything it will be possible but it will require a lot of configuration depending of the survey length.
But things like sending a custom email to the customers or something in those line will not be possible with Shopify (only if you use a third party App for custom forms logic).
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I've a client that wants certain clients to buy with Store Credit. The amount of credit is stored in their external ERP system. My idea was to create a manual custom payment, show this payment method for users with a certain customer tag and add some scripts in the checkout in order to execute a web request and get how much credit the client has at that moment and do some validations (don't let them order if the checkout is bigger than the credit) in order to let them complete the order or not.
The only link I've found basically says:
With a few exceptions, Shopify Scripts are not capable of input/output. This means that scripts can't execute web requests or database calls, and can't get input from a user. Source: https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/checkout-settings/script-editor/limitations#input-output
The client is aware they need to upgrade to Shopify Plus, but I can't find examples or any information that indicates this idea is doable.
I don't think Shopify Script is the solution in this case. (You can't make any outside call inside a script)
If you plan to use Shopify Plus you can modify checkout.liquid. You can create an app that has an endpoints that
Tells you how many points the customer has
Redeems X points and returns a discount code
Having that you can put a javascript that when checking out insert a button to redeem the points and if it's clicked you call the api and apply the discount.
To apply dynamically a coupon at checkout this is a working piece of code.
document.querySelector("#checkout_reduction_code").value = YOUR_CODE;
document.querySelector(".field__input-btn.btn").disabled = false;
document.querySelector(".field__input-btn.btn").click();
Other solution is to use Shopify Functions (https://shopify.dev/api/functions). This is a new feature that is availble in preview and lets you customize the checkout experience. I don't have experience with that but I suppose you can do something similar.
Stencil provides access the Custom Fields of a Product in a template file as documented in Product Other Details
{{product.custom_fields}}
{{#each custom_fields}}
<li>{{name}}: {{{value}}}</li>
{{/each}}
How do I access the MetaFields that are created in the Product API
POST /catalog/products/{product_id}/metafields?
Product metafields aren't currently surfaced as a Stencil property. Their original purpose was to store metadata against the product object for backend apps (data like shipping origin for ShipperHQ), so they're available via the REST API but not exposed on the front end. If you wanted to access metafields on the frontend, you could build out middleware (using a serverless function, for example) to call the API and pipe that data to the storefront.
It would be good for us to understand your use case better though. Do you want to display metafield values in the template, or base some kind of frontend logic around their values?
While one cannot natively display product metafields in Stencil, there is an app in the Bigcommerce marketplace that allows one do to so. The app also lets one view, create, update, and delete metafields for products, categories, variants, and brands. You can export metafields and import them with a csv file. The app is not free, however, there is a 7 day free trial. This answer is to give an alternative solution to the problem mentioned.
I am doing some work for a client who uses BigCommerce Stencil Theme and I am pretty new to BC. Until now most of my work with them has been basic theme formatting and styling.
They are asking if I can add checkboxes next to items in cart to indicate an alternative delivery system, and then add a field to address for a hotel room. It seems like built into BC checkout customization you can add fields to addresses so that doesn't seem like an issue, but I'm not so sure about the checkboxes. I would imagine I would need access to the underlying PHP to make this happen which doesn't seem possible. Is this accurate? If not, how might I go about doing this?
I see that I can add the checkboxes themselves to the template files, but as far as sending any data with the checkout I don't know how I'd go about doing this.
For the hotel room address field, you are correct that the simplest solution would be to use the built-in custom address field feature.
For the checkbox/alternate delivery system, we're close to releasing a new Checkout JS SDK that will give you the ability to create a completely custom checkout experience. The SDK is basically a Javascript wrapper for our Storefront Checkout API and it includes operations for checkout actions (like creating a new shipping consignment for an alternate delivery method).
The Checkout SDK doesn't give you access to the underlying PHP; instead, it allows you to create your own frontend using React or whatever framework you prefer. The logic for custom checkout steps would exist in your frontend, and you would send your data to the checkout via the BC Checkout API.
https://stencil.bigcommerce.com/docs/customizing-checkout
We are wanting to add custom product attributes to a BigCommerce store using API so that the main global product page will have the custom product attributes for cigars in our case.
Below are the product attributes so you get an idea on what it will include. We need the ability to have these attribute fields in the admin so when we add or import products they will be populated manually or automatically on the import.
County, Wrapper, Binder, Package, Size, Strength, Shape.
An example of those customs fields you can see on this other website.
http://www.thecigarstore.com/Cigars/Rocky-Patel/Rocky-Patel-Sun-Grown-Toro.htm
This is BigCommerce's API page on this.
http://developer.bigcommerce.com/docs/api/v2/resources/products/custom_fields
As mentioned here, this seems to be a bug in the API. I am not sure what are Bigcommerce plans to fix it, but I imagine there's plenty of people waiting to be fixed.
I have a webshop and im almost there, but I have a number of items for purchase which are downloadable content. I fixed so when a user has paid they are redirected to my pdt.php where they get a receipt, Now I written code for also displaying content if the item-id are == something. Now I wanna make a sandbox/test-purchase of all products that are downloadable ontent which are 28. I can create 28 buttons and have the id 1-28 but that seems stupid. How can I do this easier?
Check out the cart upload command method of sending transaction data to PayPal. It's similar to standard buttons except that you'll include all items in a single form.
Alternatively, if you're familiar with web service API's I'd recommend using the Express Checkout API. This gives you more freedom over your checkout and provides more advanced features as well.