Products require buyer input

[ptwd]

I'm building an online store to sell personalized digital products that require the buyer to share certain pieces of information about themselves. At bare minimum it could be done using a textarea input field, although for clarity it would be better to have a variety of input field types that gather the information.

The thing is: there can potentially be more than one product ordered, each using different information - in other words, I can't just add some extra fields to the checkout since different products may require some information that's different from the others. For example, I'll need the person's name, and for some products even two people's names. But if the buyer orders another product it might not use the same name(s) as the other products. So I need a way to collect specific information for each item ordered.

I was hoping I could do this using fields and field groups to gather the information that will go with the item being ordered, but it seems that the fields are meant to provide information TO the buyer, rather than the buyer inputting their information into the fields.

I'm hoping that Phoca has a way for me to create this kind of store and information input form. What is the best (and hopefully easiest) way that I could do that using Phoca cart and/or any of its extensions? At the moment I only have the central Phoca Cart installed.

Thank you!

[Jan]

Hi, you can add the text field or textarea field directly for each product as attribute, such value is then stored in order for each product.

Jan