Linking Dropdown menu with Price change box

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I’m building a website that has a section that will sell books - hopefully!
How would you connect a drop-down menu (Hardback - Paperback) and a seperate textfield which will change the amount depending on which version, and total, of the book picked?
Hope that makes sense!

CW

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You can do that using the popups system, but we would need more info that would hopefully help you out on deciding:

  • How are you planning to sell these books? Are you using Snipcart, Stripe, Paypal, Ecwid, etc, as the payment gateway and distribution method of authentication?

  • Are there only two categories? How many products roughly would each have?

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My poison of choice would be PayPal for the moment but I have been told others are better… :grinning:

There would be two options for each book: Paperback and Hardback, both having different prices and possibly up to ordering 10 books at a time (with discount). Hope that helps…

CW

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Oh okay, then you have two ways in doing this

  1. Is via Ecwid embedding system. Ecwid is a full fledge ecommerce solution - it handles the payment (using your poison of choice, PayPal, for example), your clients and serves as an CRM and an ERP - less trouble for you. For up to 10 different products, you can use their free plan.

How it works in Sparkle: you just link your Ecwid store account ID on your Sparkle site settings or copy your Ecwid store code into a embed widget in Sparkle - your webshop will appear with categories and products, and Ecwid will handle everything for you.

  1. Is having multiple PayPal Buy buttons - so you would have a button for one quantity and X buttons for other quantities, as you would design the description and the product within Sparkle itself. This way you can have a popup that handles one category and another category being in the main page - click the button and the popup would overlap the content on the main page, showing the new category with the new buttons.

To be honest, 2 is simple but just doesn’t sound right. 1 would give you more control and stats over buyers, while handling everything for you

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Yeah I thought Ecwid looked a lot better than PayPal. I shall take another look at it.

Thanks.

CW

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Just to add…
To make it a breeze for a potential clients not to think but just buy @primo suggestion with going with a shopping cart is the best option for your needs.

The shopping cart will allow the category as a dropdown - softcover, hardcover, with the relative prices for the client to choose from.

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…that had crossed my mind - thanks :+1: