Making Fields Required on your Checkout Form
JustAddCommerce allows you to require certain information fields
on your checkout form at the time of an order. To make a form field
required, you need to enter an asterisk(*) as the last character
of the field name. For example, to make the billing company field
required, follow the instructions below:
Please note: Please do not get carried away by making all field
required because this will frustrate your customers. You should
only make important fields check for validation such as billing
information, credit card numbers and phone numbers. Most users
do not use the field validation function unless they are having
a problem with their customers submitting blank orders.
To make fields required on your Checkout Form:
1. Launch JAC in your editor.
2. Click on the "JAC Checkout Form" Icon.
3. Select the "Download
Existing Checkout Form from JAC Network for editing" option.
4.
Enter your Administrative password.
5. Click "OK"
6. Your
Checkout form will appear in your editor screen.
7. Select the field
you wish to make required (For example, Billing Company)
8. Double
click the field. A pop-up screen will appear.
9. At the end
of the code name, add an asterisk(*). (For example, Billing Company,
code
name billcompany - add an asterisk, billcompany*)
The new HTML source code for the required field will look similar
to this:
Prior to making the field required: <input type="text" name="billcompany" size="30">
After making the field required: <input type="text" name="billcompany*" size="30">
10. Click the "OK" button.
11. Ignore any warnings that
might appear by clicking the "OK" button.
12. Save your
updated checkout form.
13. With the updated checkout form open in
the editor screen, click on the "JAC Checkout form" icon.
14.
Select the "Upload Checkout Form to JAC Network" option.
15.
Enter your Administrative password.
16. The updated form is now
uploaded. Test your site to view the new checkout form.Please
note: Some browsers will not remember the form values entered
by your
customer if your customer fails to enter information in some
fields and is then required to click the back button. Therefore,
the customer
will have to reenter all form values. This is not caused by
JustAddCommerce and is unavoidable due to browser variance.
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