Hey Everyone,
I have a question revolving around the idea of customized or personalized products. I have been researching the heck out of the existing cart solutions, both open source and paid looking for a solution. I'm not a developer myself, but I do have some technical knowledge and developers on staff.
Here's my question.
I have a few products in my catalog that require input from user. For example, I have some custom signs that require the user to enter some information in text field format, dropdown, and checkboxes. On top of that, the fields will require validation; both the text fields and checkboxes (max no. of selections). Many of the existing solutions give the ability to add dropdown options for the products, but many do not have the ability to add text fields or checkboxes with validation.
I am looking for a flexible cart solution that would be easy for a developer to add these features, or one that already has these features. The other option is, of course, to code the cart from scratch. We have limited time and resources, so an existing cart solution would be preferred. Our existing website is developed using the CodeIgniter framework.
How are these custom fields normally handled for products? What are some options to solve this?
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Here are some carts I have been checking out.
lemonstandapp.com cs-cart.com zen-cart.com x-cart.com opencart.com interspire.com
Thanks!!