[Alvin]

Problem with shopping carts I see is the images.

Most seem to show a product page with a tiny image and description.

One then has to click yet again for a large image which more times than not comes up in the dreaded pop up and 9 times our of ten these images have a huge file size.

Why are carts not designed to show a full size image on the product description page.

benefit being less time fewer clicks and closer to the till.

Alvin

[Chubster]

Agree...even worse are the ones you click and it takes a age to load and then comes up with one exactly the same size.

We have redesigned ours a couple of times...I think we finally got our product pages looking about right...would be interested in your views though.

Just got to get the amount of clicks down now...but its hard with the amount of categories we have

[Alvin]

yeah thats great big images of your products all important IMHO,but why no buy now button on the setup page.?

another click back to buy.

Alvin

[Chubster]

Originally Posted by Alvin

yeah thats great big images of your products all important IMHO,but why no buy now button on the setup page.?

another click back to buy.

Alvin

Here what your saying...The problem we had was, either list every product singularly...ie 2kg, 7.5, 15kg bag of food and add a buy button, but this would then mean 1000's of products with most being identical picture/text wise.

If we add a buy button to the product pages take this one as a example the system puts the product showing by default into the cart so the customer might miss other options...colour size etc

Cant see a easy way round it within the constraints of the programme

[openmind]

How about using lightbox on the image on the product detail page?

The problem I had when designing OMC was whether to have the image on the department page go to a larger image or link direct to the product...

I plumped for the former in the end...

[openmind]

Originally Posted by Chubster

Here what your saying...The problem we had was, either list every product singularly...ie 2kg, 7.5, 15kg bag of food and add a buy button, but this would then mean 1000's of products with most being identical picture/text wise.

If we add a buy button to the product pages take this one as a example the system puts the product showing by default into the cart so the customer might miss other options...colour size etc

Cant see a easy way round it within the constraints of the programme

So the way round it would be to have multiple dropdowns selecting size and colour on the product detail page before placing that detail into the cart right?

[Chubster]

Originally Posted by openmind

So the way round it would be to have multiple dropdowns selecting size and colour on the product detail page before placing that detail into the cart right?

Hi Phil...Thats what I have at the moment on most pages..but to reduce clicks I would have to list each product separately like this (if there was a buy now button on those boxes) which then means loads of similar products on the page...

Just cant see another way of doing it...

Sorry Alvin...Ive hijacked the thread

[openmind]

Ah OK. No way really round that if you are offering multiple options. I am talking about dependent drop downs though that will change dynamically dependent on say size and colour so if you had ten sizes in three colours and you wanted to stock control all of them then the system would handle that.

[Alvin]

Originally Posted by Chubster

Sorry Alvin...Ive hijacked the thread

Not at all Chub my post was to see if there were better solutions out there.

A

[openmind]

The problem I can see is that with the product detail page having a whopper image without clicking on it, it could cause issues fitting everything else in such as the product spec, description, buy button, options etc.