store : (required)
    This variable should be hidden. This is so it cannot be seen or changed by the Internet Shopper viewing your product page. The value should match your store name exactly.

department : (required)
    This variable should be hidden. This is so it cannot be seen or changed by the Internet Shopper viewing your product page. The value of this variable should be whatever department you would like categorize your product under. The value should not be left blank. This information is used internally to help categorize your sales.

item : (required)
    This variable should be hidden. This is so it cannot be seen or changed by the Internet Shopper viewing your product page. The value of this variable should be whatever the item code is for the product on page you are displaying. The value should not be left blank.

qty : (required)
    This variable SHOULD NOT be hidden. Obviously, this variable is used by the Internet Shopper to enter the qty of the product to be ordered. A new feature recently added to our service is the ability to have multiple "qty" variables on the same form. Their total will be automatically added and displayed on the final order page! All you need to do in order to use this feature is make sure the all the qty fields have "qty" as part of their name. For example...

qty_small
qty_medium
qty_large

This allows you to deal with design situations which may arise in an apparel company where they want to have one product  page for each style (garment) but allow the Internet Shopper to select a different qty for each size... See our example page below and our home site for additional examples.

price : (required)
    This variable should be hidden. This is so it cannot be seen or changed by the Internet Shopper viewing your product page. This is the selling price (multiplied by the total qty) of the item you are selling.

flexprice : (optional and very powerful) 
    This variable should be hidden. This is so it cannot be seen or changed by the Internet Shopper viewing your product page. This field gives you complete flexibility in dynamically calculating the price of an item based off of any option you provide to the shopper. This field allows you to define a value which will be "added to" or "subtracted from" the base price of your product. You define what these price changes are, based off of any value from any other HTML form field you may want to add to the product page. You can even dynamically change the price of the product based off of the qty, weight and even the actual item (field) itself.

Here's how it works...

You add a hidden HTML form field called flexprice to the product page. The value must be formatted as follows:

(any_form_field_name: value,price_change, value,price_change, etc...)(another_form_field, etc...)

You can combine as many groupings as you wish. Each grouping defines the price changes for different values of the particular form field for that group. As you can see, each group is enclosed within "( ) ". To help clarify the use of the flexprice field, consider the following example...

Suppose you wanted to sell a shirt. This shirt came in different colors and sizes. The base price for this shirt was 10.00. You wanted to charge an extra 3.00 for large and 3.25 for extra large.

Let's also suppose, you wanted to give the customer a 2.50 price break when they purchased 3 or more shirts.

Here is what the form would look like. Go ahead and try it out with different quantity's and sizes

Here is the source code for the product form above. Pay special attention to the field flexprice. Notice how the value of "other" can be used to refer to any other value input for "qty" by the shopper.

<form method="POST" action="http://www.webstoreinc.com/shopping/wc.isa?mall~addbasket" target="_blank">
<input type="hidden" name="flexprice" value="(size: large,3.00, x-large,3.25) (qty: 1,0, 2,0, other,-2.50)">
<input type="hidden" name="item" value="Men's Shirts">
<input type="hidden" name="price" value="10.00">
<input type="hidden" name="store" value="Cool Things Inc.">
<div align="center"><center><table border="3" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr>
<td width="100%" valign="top" bgcolor="#FFFF00"><strong>Rugged Blue Jean Shirt</strong></td>
</tr><tr><td width="100%" valign="top"><strong>Item: LVY125</strong><br>
Qty: <input type="text" name="qty" size="4"><br>
Size: <select name="size" size="1">
<option value="small">small</option>
<option value="Medium">Medium</option>
<option value="Large">Large</option>
<option value="X-Large">X-Large</option>
</select><p><input type="submit" value="Submit" name="B1"><input type="reset" value="Reset" name="B2"></td></tr></table></center></div>
</form>

You can define values for the flexprice field to handle any HTML form field imaginable. Since any form field you add to a product page, displays along side the product in the shopping basket. The options for dynamic price calculations are almost limitless.

weight : (optional)
     When you include this field on your HTML product page and assign it a value (weight), the Internet Shopper's final order form will display a new column appropriately called "weight". The total of the invoices (qty*weight) can also be used to calculate the shipping charges for the order.

In order for Shipment Charges to be calculated by weight properly, you must make sure your product HTML forms have a field called "weight" and an associated weight value. The unit of measurement (lb., kilo, etc.) is really not analyzed in this calculation. Calculating shipping charges by weight assumes all products on the order use the same unit of weight

noshow : (optional)
     This variable should be hidden. This is so it cannot be seen or changed by the Internet Shopper viewing your product page. If you add this hidden field to a product form and the shopper submits their order, rather then EasyBasket showing the final order page, the shopper will be sent back to the same page the order was submitted from. Thus, it will appear as though nothing has happened since the same page will refresh. A few clients have asked for this option so we decided to make it available to everyone. This may be useful for times when you just want the shopper to keep clicking on order buttons and not see the total in the basket until the shopper hits a link to see the final checkout page. See below "Displaying the Shoppers Shopping Basket (final checkout page) Directly:" for information on creating this type of link.

custom_checkout : (optional)
    Here's one you've been waiting for... The ability to customize the look of your final order page! Here's how it works...

1. Add a new field called custom_checkout to your product page.

2. Set the value of this new field to be the absolute URL path to a custom HTML page you have designed for your store. This HTML page can reside on any accessible web server.
   
   For Example...
   http://www.mystore.com/mycheckout.htm
   
   Make sure that any images or URL links on your page are absolute. In other words, if you have a company logo on your page, rather then the HTML looking like:
   
   <img src="/images/our_logo.gif" width="200" height="300" alt="our_logo.gif (13864 bytes)">
   
   it should look like:
   
   <img src="http://www.mystore.com/images/our_logo.gif" width="200" height="300" alt="our_logo.gif (13864 bytes)">
   
   That's it! When the shopper's final order page is displayed, your page will come up with our shopping basket below any custom logo, links or anything that you create.

NEW Really Cool, Unlimited Form Variables for collecting information !!! : (optional)
    So you want more flexibility in collecting information and designing you product pages? Well, now you have it. Any additional form variables you add to your product pages for Internet Shoppers to fill in, will now be displayed on the final order page under the associated item code! These additional fields will also be reported to you on your sales reports. This gives you complete control with, not only how you design your product pages, but also what information you can collect necessary for the sales of your products. By the way, since the Submit button of an HTML form is a type of variable, any form variables called 'Submit' or 'Order' will not show up under the product on the final order page.

Please Note:
Although it is recommended most of the above form variables be of "hidden" type, they do not have to be. Hiding a form variable is a way of attaching and sending information along with your form without the Internet Shopper seeing or changing this internal information. Obviously, you would not want the Internet Shopper looking at you product page to be able to change the price of your product.