Tips and Tricks
In this section we demonstrate some tricks which you may want to implement on your website.
- Displaying products on sale - explains how you can output a list of discounted products.
- Allowing customers to provide order item specific information - explains how you can add form fields to the Cart page, allowing your customers to enter item-specific information.
- Allowing visitors to customize products - explains how to allow visitors to customize products before adding them to the cart.
- Supporting file uploads on the product page - explains how you can allow buyers to customize your products with their own files.
- Automatic customer registration - explains how you can extend the checkout process with automatic customer registration and signing in.
- Using partials instead of flash messages - explains how you can display partials with rich HTML formatting instead if standard flash messages.
- Implementing the "Ship to the billing address" checkbox on the checkout page - explains how you can add the "Ship to the billing address" checkbox to the Billing Information page to skip the checkout Shipping Information step.
- Simplifying the checkout process - explains how you can combine the Payment Method, Pay and Order Review checkout steps.
- Displaying a list of active product catalog price rules - explains how to display a list of catalog price rules applied to a specific product.
- Leaving the cart content after placing the order - explains how you can leave the cart content non-emptied when a customer places the order.
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