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[Madchatthew]

So I switched back to woocommerce because there was some things that I wanted to change that I couldn’t in surecart. So I disabled that plug in and then I re-enabled the woocommerce plugin and started making my changes. I was able to get it so only the one product is seen. I will be adding more later. I have my add-ons added in as products and cross referenced I think the term was to the main product so when you add the main product to the cart those add-ons show up underneath it and you can click to add them to the cart if you want them. Evan was able to find a terms and agreement that did a pop up and a checkbox so you can check that you agree and it’s required before you can purchase anything. And then I found a deposit plugin because I require 50% upfront before they send their Bible to me and then the rest after I finish it and I can manually send out an invoice after that. So I got all of that working did some layout stuff with the cart and the checkout page. I also found a plug in so if you choose the add-on which is a bundle for laser engraving on the spine and the front cover with your name you have to go into the product and there’s a text box to enter your name exactly how you want it spelled on the Bible cover. The alternative to the bundle is just getting the laser engraving done on the spine, which I was able to look up some code so if either one of those get put into the cart it’s takes the other one out and then I used AI to help me refine the code so it’ll automatically detect if one or the other is in there and remove one or the other depending on which one you choose and such or if you change your mind.

I haven’t made it live yet. I will be going over it some more this weekend and working through the process and ironing out any last obvious bugs and such. Oh I also got set up to use PayPal to check out which with the PayPal plug-in you can do PayPal obviously, venmo, Apple pay and you can opt to pay with just the regular credit card or debit card or whatever. At some point I may activate the woocommerce check out but I will probably wait until I get a bank account for the business.

So yeah I am thinking next week I will be able to make this live and I can turn off the Google forms that I am using now. I am pretty excited about making this feature active. And it will be nicely automated because I won’t have to manually make quotes anymore, and everything will be right there and they can check out right away and know what they’re rebind is going to cost immediately and it should be more seamless from picking your custom rebind the colors the ribbons your add-ons and you can go to pay you do the 50% non-refundable deposit and it should be a lot more smooth and seamless I’m hoping.

I didn’t get that theme yet that comes with a bunch of woocommerce stuff. I’m working on breaking even at this point and once I do and get some money built up then I will think about it at that point. But this should work for now with what I have and it is all free pretty much except for paying for the domain name and hosting in that kind of thing.

[phenomlab]

@Madchatthew These are all smart moves, and it certainly looks like you’re headed in the right direction. Best of luck and I really hope this venture succeeds. It’s a niche market but has huge potential once word spreads around.

Building out the basic framework also makes sense before you take the plunge and invest heavier, which I myself would only do once the business starts to turn profit.

[Madchatthew]

@phenomlab thank you! I appreciate it!