After heavily focusing on integrating Commerce into my community, there are some things I have noticed either not being implemented or could further be improved on. I'll do my best to keep it as concise as possible.
Custom Fields
My first suggestion relates to the usage of custom fields. When enabled, it would be ideal if images are updated according to the selection made by the customer. For example, if you list a T-shirt with three colours (red, orange and green), clicking between each colour does not update the image/s. The only option available is to upload images of each colour to that product to be viewed which can clutter the listing.
For example, a small can of dog food looks very different to a big can of dog food. Having both on the listing when a small can is selected in the custom field can be confusing for the customer and avoid confusion/complaints.
The location of a product's price when there are custom fields is located at the very top of the listing. This is completely fine, but if you have a longer than normal product description like I do with most products, customers are required to scroll to the top of the page to see updated pricing when clicking through custom fields (scrolling becomes more of an issue when using a phone or tablet). I also have a comment written in the custom field advising customers to scroll up to confirm pricing. Pricing at both the top and bottom may perhaps be a solution, but I have not thought about other alternatives.
Using the same example above, a small can of dog food could be $5, but if a big can of dog food is selected, the customer has to scroll up to confirm how much the price becomes.
An internal name field for custom fields would be amazing (just like it is for Product Filters). I use quite a few custom fields specifically for sizes/measurements, and instead of having many custom fields named 'Size', I could quickly distinguish which products are using what custom fields at any one time without having to look through each custom field I have created.
There is probably an easier solution to this and I have just not noticed it yet...
I do have many custom fields, mainly for sizes of different dog products. Let's say I have two separate products with one coming in a small and large size, and the second product coming in 1 kg, 2.5 kg and 4 kg. Keep up with me on this one... If I was to create a single custom field named 'Size', add each measurement above (small, large, 1 kg, 2.5 kg and 4 kg) and select that as the custom field for the first product, it would list all five options. If I specify that 1 kg, 2.5 kg and 4 kg have no stock, this would prevent the customer from purchasing, but does not remove these radio buttons from the custom field.
A fix? Well, I think the easiest way would be adding another column within the custom field under the heading Stock & Price Adjustments (when editing a product in your AdminCP → Commerce → Store → Products), where someone can enable or disable those options from being displayed using a simple checkbox. Right now I have 13 custom fields, all named 'Size'. 😅
If anyone has a solution for anything I've mentioned above, I'm all ears! It would be great to hear any feedback from others using or heavily relying on Commerce too. This is a powerful application that I've been using quite a lot in the past few weeks so it would be great to see how others are incorporating it into their own communities.
P.S. I don't use third-party applications so if the above cannot be performed vanilla, unfortunately it is what it is. 😇
After heavily focusing on integrating Commerce into my community, there are some things I have noticed either not being implemented or could further be improved on. I'll do my best to keep it as concise as possible.
Custom Fields
My first suggestion relates to the usage of custom fields. When enabled, it would be ideal if images are updated according to the selection made by the customer. For example, if you list a T-shirt with three colours (red, orange and green), clicking between each colour does not update the image/s. The only option available is to upload images of each colour to that product to be viewed which can clutter the listing.
For example, a small can of dog food looks very different to a big can of dog food. Having both on the listing when a small can is selected in the custom field can be confusing for the customer and avoid confusion/complaints.
The location of a product's price when there are custom fields is located at the very top of the listing. This is completely fine, but if you have a longer than normal product description like I do with most products, customers are required to scroll to the top of the page to see updated pricing when clicking through custom fields (scrolling becomes more of an issue when using a phone or tablet). I also have a comment written in the custom field advising customers to scroll up to confirm pricing. Pricing at both the top and bottom may perhaps be a solution, but I have not thought about other alternatives.
Using the same example above, a small can of dog food could be $5, but if a big can of dog food is selected, the customer has to scroll up to confirm how much the price becomes.
An internal name field for custom fields would be amazing (just like it is for Product Filters). I use quite a few custom fields specifically for sizes/measurements, and instead of having many custom fields named 'Size', I could quickly distinguish which products are using what custom fields at any one time without having to look through each custom field I have created.
There is probably an easier solution to this and I have just not noticed it yet...
I do have many custom fields, mainly for sizes of different dog products. Let's say I have two separate products with one coming in a small and large size, and the second product coming in 1 kg, 2.5 kg and 4 kg. Keep up with me on this one... If I was to create a single custom field named 'Size', add each measurement above (small, large, 1 kg, 2.5 kg and 4 kg) and select that as the custom field for the first product, it would list all five options. If I specify that 1 kg, 2.5 kg and 4 kg have no stock, this would prevent the customer from purchasing, but does not remove these radio buttons from the custom field.
A fix? Well, I think the easiest way would be adding another column within the custom field under the heading Stock & Price Adjustments (when editing a product in your AdminCP → Commerce → Store → Products), where someone can enable or disable those options from being displayed using a simple checkbox. Right now I have 13 custom fields, all named 'Size'. 😅
If anyone has a solution for anything I've mentioned above, I'm all ears! It would be great to hear any feedback from others using or heavily relying on Commerce too. This is a powerful application that I've been using quite a lot in the past few weeks so it would be great to see how others are incorporating it into their own communities.
P.S. I don't use third-party applications so if the above cannot be performed vanilla, unfortunately it is what it is. 😇
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