I have an event (an Air Tour of my state) that I am trying to set up a registration form for. There are a LOT of fields to fill in, which is not a problem to set up and capture the data. I’ve done that before using php form. But they also have to pay a set amount per person for the event and the form has to be able to allow for 4 people to be paid for at one time. That is where a lot of the data I need to capture comes in as I need to know things about each person and about the plane they will all be in. So, I have signed up for Mals Shopping Cart and I think I am beginning to understand how to get it to pass the ‘amount’ info over to the cart so it can be paid for properly.
Anyone have any advice for ALSO capturing the rest of the data I get in those other fields? Do I use both a ‘pay now’ button to send the amount data over to the cart and a ‘submit registrations’ button to capture the rest of the information? If so… er… any suggestions on how I do that? For example, could I put an ‘Ok got the info so click here to pay now’ button on the “Success” page of the submit registration button? Would that work? Or is there some more elegant way for this woefully poor web programmer to capture everything I need? (I use Freeway so I don’t have to write code….)
If you’re trying to do this – and get out of learning to program – you’re going to need to do something to hack it together. One trick you could try is to have the pay form on the Thanks page. That way your regular PHP Feedback Form or Send Form Action can process the first form with all the variables, and mail the results to you.
But I don’t know of any way that you can pass the number of people or the e-mail address to this page, though. I am assuming there are different prices for different-sized groups, and I’m not sure how you can get that to work.
If I were programming this by hand, it would be easy to build a multi-page form that collects all the data and submits part of it to a database and the other part to your payment system. That’s how any decent cart works. If you want to learn how to do this, then I can help you, but it’s not for the faint-of-code.
Walter
On Feb 8, 2014, at 2:01 PM, Carol Lynn wrote:
I have an event (an Air Tour of my state) that I am trying to set up a registration form for. There are a LOT of fields to fill in, which is not a problem to set up and capture the data. I’ve done that before using php form. But they also have to pay a set amount per person for the event and the form has to be able to allow for 4 people to be paid for at one time. That is where a lot of the data I need to capture comes in as I need to know things about each person and about the plane they will all be in. So, I have signed up for Mals Shopping Cart and I think I am beginning to understand how to get it to pass the ‘amount’ info over to the cart so it can be paid for properly.
Anyone have any advice for ALSO capturing the rest of the data I get in those other fields? Do I use both a ‘pay now’ button to send the amount data over to the cart and a ‘submit registrations’ button to capture the rest of the information? If so… er… any suggestions on how I do that? For example, could I put an ‘Ok got the info so click here to pay now’ button on the “Success” page of the submit registration button? Would that work? Or is there some more elegant way for this woefully poor web programmer to capture everything I need? (I use Freeway so I don’t have to write code….)
On 8 Feb 2014, 9:34 pm, waltd wrote:
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If I were programming this by hand, it would be easy to build a multi-page form that collects all the data and submits part of it to a database and the other part to your payment system. That’s how any decent cart works. If you want to learn how to do this, then I can help you, but it’s not for the faint-of-code.
Walter
I was afraid of that. Thank you so much for the offer. Let me cogitate on that overnight and get back to you.
Not sure if i have fully understood your requirement, but have you tired JotForm, they have a fairly comprehensive Form builder with PayPal integration, that can be integrated into the Freeway page via and iframe etc…
What i am not sure about in your case is are you asking for up to 4 different Payment transactions per form? or one payment covering 4 people per form ???. or maybe i have totally misunderstood your requirement.
I use Jotform on the following page to enrol students into a series of Sailing courses and pay the fees depending on the courses selected, for my example take a look at