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This is for WebsiteX5 Evolution 7. In WebsiteX5 the described functionality is a standard feature of the shopping cart



This is an advanced topic!

The shoping cart functionality of websitex5 is a bit limited. One of the questions I have seen quite often on the forum is if it is possible to add a number of items to the shopping cart without going to the WebsiteX5 shopping cart page. I came up with a solution for one of my websites, with might possibly suit your needs too.

But first a warning. You have to do a (limited) amount of coding yourself! Are you up to it? I kept the functionality limited to make implementation as easy as possible...

I added a input field in which the customer can give the number of items they want to order of a product and an image button. When you click on the button the given number of products is added to the shopping cart. The customer is given a message that the products are added to the shopping cart and the number of items is reset to 1. The input box and button look like this:

The image is one of the shopping cart images that ship with WebsiteX5. I've done nothing to make it look better, but you could enhance it by adding an ´order now´ label to the field, for example...

You can see a live demonstration in a dummy webshop here...

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