Extra Customer Fields

Miva Merchant Version: Compiled - 4.14 - 4.24
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Module Details

Price
$149.97
Module Code
NBECF
Module Type
System Extension
Current Version
4.12
Level of Difficulty
Difficult
Token Support
Yes
FAQ
Documentation
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Need a second address line? Additional customer information? Even better - do you want to control how that information is displayed to your customers? (After all, does it make sense for the second address line to appear at the BOTTOM of the screen?)

The Extra Customer Fields module allows you to specify additional customer information fields within your store, and also provides template-based layout control over the customer account screen and the customer information within all checkout screens. The extra customer fields can be displayed on all account and checkout screens, including the following:

  • ACNT - Add / Edit Customer Account Screen,
  • OINF - Checkout: Customer Information Screen,
  • OSEL - Checkout: Shipping / Payment Selection Screen,
  • OPAY - Checkout: Payment Screen, and
  • INVC - Invoice Screen

The Extra Customer Fields module supports all standard Miva Merchant fields, and also allows a variety of input types for extra fields, including text field, text area, checkbox, radio button, single select list, multi-select list, country dropdown, and state dropdown - all configurable from within the module's easy to use administration interface.

Features

Global Settings

Global Settings allows you to optionally set indicators to distinguish fields as required, optional, or both. Indicators can be shown before or after the field prompt. CSS styles are also applied to field prompts and input elements to indicate fields as required, optional, and/or invalid (when data is missing or incorrectly formatted).

Module administration screen in Miva Merchant administration utility, showing the Global Settings subtab
 

Standard Fields

Extra Customer Fields allows you to control even the standard customer fields. This administration section allows you to change the prompt for a field and to set optional field attributes, such as CSS selectors, size, and even JavaScript event handling code.

Prompts can be dynamically controlled using OpenTokens - the prompt fields fully support all OpenToken functionality.

 Module administration screen in Miva Merchant administration utility, showing the Standard Fields subtab
 

Templates

The layout of the account screen and the customer portions of the checkout screens can be customized using templates and tokens. Each screen has its own template, and fields and their associated prompts are displayed via tokens. For example, %nbecf_fname_s% is replaced with the input box for the Ship-to First Name.

There is also a template for the admin screen. Administrators can view and edit the data entered by customers within the Miva Merchant administration utility. The admin template determines the layout of this administration screen.

Module administration screen in Miva Merchant administration utility, showing the Templates subtab
 

Extra Customer Fields

Extra fields can be defined to collect additional information from your customers, either during checkout, account creation, or both. Each extra field is assigned a name, a prompt, an interface type, and optionally a default value and attributes. The name is hidden from customers, but is used as the token to represent this field within the templates. The prompt is the text label shown to customers. Several interface types are available, including text field, text area, dropdown menu, checkbox, radio button, single select, multi select, and even states and countries dropdowns with data pulled from the corresponding store databases. If a field is given a default value, that default value will be present when an empty form is loaded. Attributes are used to specify CSS selectors, sizes, and JavaScript event handlers. Finally, each field can be designated as required or optional.

Dropdowns, radio buttons, and single and multi select fields also have options. These options are defined on a separate screen for each field, and can be reordered as needed.

Module administration screen in Miva Merchant administration utility, showing the Extra Fields subtab
Module administration screen in Miva Merchant administration utility, showing the Extra Field Options subtab

System Requirements

OpenUI or Templates

Traditionally, this module requires the use of OpenUI. However, it also offers tokens for compatibility with templating systems, such as the Viking Page Template Modules, OpenUI Supermod templates, or Dynamic Templates. Information on the module's tokens can be found in the module's documentation. Free support does not include configuration and use of tokens within templating systems or the OpenUI itself.


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