RealCart U Course: Auto Choices

Auto Choices - The Basics

RealCart was designed to be your tireless, always loyal, ecommerce salesperson. While it doesn’t vocally “ask” web shoppers if they would like to upgrade their purchase with optional accessories, it does force the web shopper to think about the options she DOES want. The product choices in RealCart are set to force selection by default to assure that the web shopper sees the entire list of options before just deciding that the default option is OK and clicking the Add to Cart button.

RealCart was designed to promote the highest sales possible. While it is the opinion of RealCart.com that forcing a web shopper to choose an option results in higher instances of self up-grades it is possible to have RealCart automatically choose the first choice on the list for each product option defined for a particular product.

Default
Web shopper forced to select a choice for each option

Customized
First choice already selected for each option

This course, although fairly short, will completely explain how to get RealCart to automatically pick the first choice on the list as the page loads in the browser window.

Clone choices.snp

Clone the file choices.snp and then open the cloned copy in a text editor. Locate the following block of code. It should appear somewhere around the 75th to 80th line of the snippit file. You are looking for:

// Create a drop down menu for each product option. var totOptions = eval(option.length); for(i = 0; i < option.length; i++) { document.write("<b><font size=2>" + option[i].Label + "</b> . . . document.write("<SELECT NAME=\"productOptionsCombo" + i + "\" . . . for(x = 0; x < option[i].Items.length; x++)

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