Hey all, I'm new to SCA. Trying to figure things ...
# suitecommercea
AK47
10/24/2023, 1:53 PMHey all, I'm new to SCA. Trying to figure things out. Is it possible to develope customizations? I'm looking to automatically add a non-inventory item to the cart if a condition is met and some other item is added to the cart. Is that possible? Any help is appreciated. Thanks.
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Steve Goldberg
10/24/2023, 2:08 PMYes it is possible to develop customisations. We have whole swathes of documentation, training courses and a developer portal dedicated to it.
See:
• https://docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/saas/netsuite/ns-online-help/chapter_N2655313.html#Commerce-Website-Developer-Documentation-Overview
• https://developers.suitecommerce.com/getting-started.html
• https://learn.oracle.com/ols/course/suitecommerce-theme-and-extension-development/85169/84754
As for your specific requirement — is the item free? If so, you could probably just use a free gift promotion.
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AK47
10/24/2023, 2:10 PMthanks @Steve Goldberg I looked into SuitePromotions, but the item isn't free. Trying to add a fuel charge automatically once an item is added to the cart
AK47
10/24/2023, 2:10 PMi'll look into this documentation, thanks a lot
AK47
10/24/2023, 2:14 PMI know I can do this with a UE in Netsuite pretty easily, but I'd like to to be customer facing, so the customer sees the fuel charge added to their cart
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Steve Goldberg
10/24/2023, 2:14 PMOK, well you could probably write a simple extension to do that but you may need to use Scriptable Cart instead
Steve Goldberg
10/24/2023, 2:15 PMIf you’re used to UEs then scriptable cart may actually be easier for you
Steve Goldberg
10/24/2023, 2:15 PMIt’s kinda like “what if we had UEs but for the web store context?”
Steve Goldberg
10/24/2023, 2:16 PMSo if the fuel charge is based on, say, weight you could have a recalc script that adds/modifies the fuel charge each time the cart changes using the weight of the item multiplied by an amount
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AK47
10/24/2023, 2:19 PMIf the site currently isn't using scriptable cart, and I enable it (but don't add any scripts yet), nothing should change, right?
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Steve Goldberg
10/24/2023, 2:20 PMTicking the box should have no effect if no scripts are running
Steve Goldberg
10/24/2023, 2:21 PMAs with all these things, I would recommend writing/testing customisations on a sandbox or non-production site first
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AK47
10/24/2023, 2:21 PMas would I...unfortunately, they don't have a sandbox 😞
AK47
10/24/2023, 2:21 PMwill test code locally when possible...but things like that settings has to be done in prod
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Steve Goldberg
10/24/2023, 2:30 PM😅 good luck
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AK47
10/24/2023, 8:14 PM@Steve Goldberg thanks again for your help. Do you know if the customer's price level is available from the site? I'm only seeing it in a comment
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Steve Goldberg
10/25/2023, 11:01 AMNot sure what you mean by "only seeing it in a comment". Do you mean the name of the price level?
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AK47
10/25/2023, 5:41 PMThe name or the id of the price level. If i look through everything on the page in chrome, it's in the cookie, its not on the page, it only appears in a comment on the page
AK47
10/25/2023, 5:41 PM(btw, we've already invested more time into this than we should...this company is using Site Builder which is deprecated which is why I was trying to find a hacky way around what they need...and i think we've done it...but they don't want to pay for it....so really don't worry)
AK47
10/25/2023, 5:41 PMThanks for your help!
AK47
10/25/2023, 7:14 PMturns out...they do want to pay for it. Good news lol
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