Plugin Guide - Quick Order
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Configure
This plugin is delivered with NopAdvance Core plugin on which this plugin is dependent. You need to install the plugin using the plugin installation guide provided here.
Once the plugin have been installed, you will see the plugin menu under NopAdvance > Plugins > Quick order in your nopCommerce admin menu, similar as displayed in the below image.
Click on the Configure menu item from Quick order plugin menu as displayed above and you will be re-directed to the plugin configuration.
Once you click on the Configure menu item, It will display the configuration page as shown in the image below.
The above settings are explained below:
- General:
- Multi-store configuration for: Admin can configure the settings per store or common for all stores so the plugin features can work accordingly per store as per configuration on this page.
- Enabled: You can enable the quick order plugin for specific or all store(s) using this setting.
- Include in top menu: Enabling this setting will display "Quick order" menu item in the main website menu.
- Display only published products: Enabling this setting will display only published products on the quick order page.
- Limited to customer role: Select a customer role for whom you wish not to display the quick order page.
- Quick order page URL: URL which will redirect the admin user to the Quick Order page.
- SEO:
- Se name: Set Sename for quick order plugin which will be displayed on the store link.
- Meta title: Set meta title for the quick order plugin.
- Meta keyword: Set meta keyword for quick order plugin.
- Meta Description: Set meta description for quick order plugin.
Quick order page (Back to top)
You can go to quick order page directly from website main menu as displayed in the image below or you can directly type "/quickorder" in the end of your website store URL to go to the quick order page.
Once you browse to the quick order page, it will show a page with form and options as displayed in the image below.
The above image displays a form to quickly add products to the Cart / Wish-list and two options Paste items page and Upload excel file for easiness of adding multiple products to this form.
Paste items (Back to top)
This page can be accessed from the quick order page by clicking on the Paste items page link as displayed in the image below.
Once you click on the link, the quick order paste items page will be shown as displayed in the image below.
As displayed in the example on the right of this page, you can either enter Product SKU (comma) Quantity or Product SKU (space) Quantity per line in the multi-line textbox provided at the left of this page.
In this textbox, you can paste the text directly from excel or any other software where you manage this information. Once done, click on ADD button to add these products directly to the table on the quick order page.
Clicking on BACK button will clear all text from the textbox and the CLEAR ALL button does the same.
Excel upload (Back to top)
This page can be accessed from the quick order page by clicking on the Upload excel file link as displayed in the image below.
Once you click on the link, a popup will be displayed over the quick order page to upload the excel file as displayed in the image below.
In the excel upload pop-up, you get an option to download a sample file. The sample excel file content is displayed in the image below.
SKU | Quantity |
M8_HTC_5L | 2 |
COMP_CUST | 1 |
The excel file contains two columns, SKU and Quantity. To use an excel file, the customer must write Product SKU and desired quantity in the downloaded excel file or the customer can make a similar excel file themselves.
The customer then needs to browse and select the prepared excel file by clicking on Choose File button and click on IMPORT button to finish the import. Once the excel file is imported, the product(s) with respective quantity will be added to the quick order grid on the quick order page.
How to use (Back to top)
To manually add a product to the above displayed quick order form, the customer needs to type the SKU of that product and once the customer leaves the SKU field, they will be asked for quantity. The system does not supports any negative quantities.
The same happens in the case of Paste items page and Upload excel file.
If a product have product attributes then you will see an option on the product line item similar to displayed in the image below to select product attributes for that product.
Once you click on Select Product Attributes button, it displays the pop-up similar to image displayed below to allow customer to select product attributes for this product.
Upon save, it will display selected product attributes with the product line item as displayed in the image below.
Once you have added a list of products in the quick order form using manual method / Paste items page / Upload excel file methods then you can either add them to the cart using ADD TO CART button or add them to your wish-list using ADD TO WISHLIST button respectively.
The Delete icon in each row asks for a confirmation if a row is not blank and it deletes the current row only. Similarly the CLEAR ALL button asks for confirmation if at least one row is filled and it replaces whole form with blank rows.
The ADD ROWS button allows a customer to add as many rows in the quick order form as per their need.
The quick order form also displays an error if a wrong SKU is entered as displayed in the image below when an SKU does not exists for a product in the system.
