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Early question about FluentCart

We have a WooCommerce-based website where we sell invitations. However, we’re not satisfied with Woo’s performance. We already know that FluentCart isn’t being developed as a direct competitor to the WooCommerce product. But we’re curious about how far it can be extended with plugins. Because in terms of customer experience, WooCommerce is very slow.

Our core requirements are:

  • Our customers can only purchase in predefined quantities: e.g., 100, 200, 500, 1000, and 1500. If they want to buy 700, they shouldn’t be able to complete the purchase. These selections works like ratio. (Using WPC Product Quantity for WooCommerce for that)
  • Unit price varies by quantity. For example, if the price for 100 units is set as 1x, then for 200 units it’s set as 1.7x. (Using WPC Price by Quantity for WooCommerce for that)
  • When placing an order, we use Fancy Product Designer (which will be renamed Chamevo in the future) for product designs. Of course, this also depends on the FPD developer, but will there be a way to use FluentCart with plugins?
  • For some products we use product extras, and for others we use cart extras. For example, for a product extra: if someone wants to buy 600 invitations and enables the envelope option on the product page, then 600 envelopes are added to the order at a fixed unit price. The key point is that the number of envelopes updates to match the selected quantity. As for a cart extra: some customers want to send a portion of the invitations to a different address (for couples holding weddings in two different cities). In that case, an additional option in the cart adds a fixed fee to the cart total, and they enter the address information. (Using Extra Product Options & Add-Ons for WooCommerce and Checkout Field Editor for WooCommerce (Pro) for that)

I know FluentCart is still in its early days. But we’re wondering whether we can include FluentCart in our future plans. That’s why—even if there aren’t perfectly definitive answers—we’d appreciate it if you could inform us.

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Shahjahan Jewel
  1. Quantity: How many products do you have? If you have few products, you can easily create custom purchase forms with an instant checkout link and a few lines of PHP code to restrict by quantity.
  2. Bulk Pricing: We will not have native support, but 3rd party devs can modify that easily.
  3. Again, we don't have that feature as planned, but once we release the dev docs, they can definitely work on it.
  4. We have a plan to add upsell features in the core. But it may take 1-2 more months.

Tolga Altas

Shahjahan Jewel 1. We've nearly 100 products. We can't create custom purchase forms because customers need to design their invitation with FPD.
2. Got it.
3. I understand. We can contact them.
4. That's great. But can we add ratio, checkbox or text box with them? It's not just a upselling for us. We need to collect some extra information if user selected an extra in checkout step.