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Displaying Gift Certificates for Sale in BV5
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Hello & thanks in advance & apologies if I've missed some obvious documentation on this (already pored over the manual and the forum.)
I'm trying to figure out the front end display of Gift Certificates in BV5. By default it looks like when I create a Gift Certificate, I can't access it from GiftCertificates.aspx, which shows up blank. Instead, the way I locate it (for test purchase, etc.) is by doing a search in the site's search engine. When I do that, it's filed under CDs. It's a little confusing, and the documentation on BV5 doesn't cover the front end display of certificates.
If someone can throw me a bone I'll be grateful. In exchange, on your deathbed you will receive total consciousness. |
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Joined: 2/21/2007(UTC)
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Have you entered giftcertificates.aspx as the URL rewrite for your certificates? That's what I did (though it's singular -- giftcertificate.aspx) and it works fine. Did you assign it to the CDs category? You may want to create its own category to call from your navigation system |
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Thanks for the tips Joe I will try that. |
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Rank: Member
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I've noticed another new and different issue.
For customer-priced (arbitrarily priced) gift certificates, when they are created in the admin section of BV5 by default they appear in the site front end as they should...i.e., a text field where the customer enters the price.
However, once you EDIT that gift certificate (as a product, per se) by, say, changing the image associated with it, the application applies either the BV5 or the BVC2004 product template to the gift certificate, making it impossible for the customer to enter a price. In other words, they can only "Add to Cart", which defeats the purpose if they cannot dictate a gift certificate price.
Do you (or anyone else) have any idea why this happens and what the work-around is?
Thanks in advance. |
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Rank: Member
Joined: 10/14/2005(UTC)
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I just figured this out. When I'm looking at the front-end Gift Certificates page, I think my mistake is accessing it administratively as a product by clicking on "Edit this Product" in the top menu. Once I have the damn product template applied to Gift Certificates, the way I removed it was by accessing the Gift Certificate administratively the correct way, from Catalog->Gift Certificates and just accessing it and then clicking "Save Changes" without doing anything. Go figure. I'm a little slow. |
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Joined: 1/15/2008(UTC)
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Let me jump into this topic. As I'm just staring this out.
I have created a category called "Coupon Codes"
How do you add the Gift Certificate to a category ?
My Big plan.
Create Certificate's / Purchase a 100 ( to generate the promotional codes ) / List the promotional codes on a category page.
This way, the customer doesn't have buy the certificates first to get the added discounts.
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