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.
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Hello Shopify Developers.
I'm a newbie on Shopify. How can we add a tab in product pages as Dimensions? Through this tab, we should be able to edit and change the dimensions for each specific product.
Would you give me a suggestion to do that? please teach me.
Best regards, Siva.
Shopify is not designed to allow customers to enter custom dimensions and have that affect the final price of the item.
However, this can be accomplished in principle through some roundabout steps, which involve a hidden priced product and a fair bit of javascript and the use of line-item properties to link everything together.
If you're feeling ambitious and want to make such a system yourself, the basic flow would be:
Create a product that either has a $0.01 value (or whatever the lowest denomination is in your currency) or a value of whatever the cost-per-smallest-unit that you want to sell by
Update your store templates so that any products that are marked as a component product (via tags, metafields, product type, or whatever you choose to go with) do not get displayed on collection pages, search results, etc.
For your product pages that need custom dimensions, you will need to create any relevant input fields and add whatever formulas you need to convert user inputs into units of your component product
When the item is added to cart, you will need custom javascript to add the correct quantity of the component item at the same time that the main/visible item is added to the cart. At this step, I would recommend adding line-item properties to both items that would identify that they belong together.
You will need to update your cart to hide the component product and add its price to the main/visible item for display purposes, and the quantity-update and item-remove features in your cart to make sure that when the main/visible product is updated or removed the component product is updated appropriately as well.
This can be quite the undertaking to try to take on yourself, so if any of the above steps seem daunting I would strongly recommend looking for an app in Shopify's app store that can do these steps for you. There are a lot of product option/customization apps available, and many of them have free trials that you can take advantage of to see if they meet your needs.
Of course, if you have the skills and ambition to take this project on, great! The above flow should hopefully get you started, and if you need further advice on any specific step feel free to ask another question.
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).
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
I'm a first-time Shopify developer looking for a way to let customers enter additional data about themselves in Shopify. Specifically, I'd like to add a page or modify the account info page so the customer can enter measurements. I'd then like to take that measurement information, process it, and return a recommended size for products in the shop.
Is this possible in Shopify? I am trying to figure out how to add metafields for customers to record their measurements, but I'm a bit lost.
This should work, but would require a fair bit of customization on the merchant's part and is a bit of a hack:
When a customer is logged in their info is available through Liquid.
This allows you to reference that customer's data when rendering shop pages, e.g. a Product page.
You can assign Metafields to customers using the API. These are also available through Liquid.
Putting this all together, you can have a form on the shopfront asking the customer for info once they're logged in. The form submits to your server where you add the info to the Customer object as Metafields using the API. Then you have some clever Liquid on the Product page that either does the necessary calculations itself or embeds the relevant info into javascript to be processed client-side.