store page with several skus both subscription and nonsubscription

chako

01 Jun, 2012 06:29 PM

Hi - We have a fitness site that sells 1-time purchases like clothes and recurring billing transactions, like monthly access to our website. How do we use Cheddar Getter as our only e-commerce platform?

  1. #1 Posted by chako on 01 Jun, 2012 06:47 PM

    Can we set-up the system to bill at the beginning of service not in arrears?

  2. #2 Posted by Marc Guyer Support staff on 01 Jun, 2012 09:54 PM

    Hi Chako -- I tried returning your call but got your voicemail...

    How do we use Cheddar Getter as our only e-commerce platform?

    It's pretty simple really. In fact, CheddarGetter is ideal when you have a mix of recurring subscribers with some one-time transactions mixed in. There's a ton of documentation here about how to do various things but I'll give you a basic breakdown. Use the API or the GUI or the Hosted Pages to register customers in CheddarGetter. Every customer must be subscribed to a pricing plan - this is how the customer's payment method is stored. You can use a non-recurring plan for customers who only pay one-time transactions. You can configure your plans to manage the recurring billing as well, of course. Then, you can use one-time invoices to execute payments in real time or use custom charges within a recurring subscription to add one-time charges to be settled on the next recurring bill. All this and your customers only have to enter their payment information once.

    Can we set-up the system to bill at the beginning of service not in arrears?

    That's a configuration option for pricing plans.

    I hope that answers all of your questions but I'm sure there are more. Fire away!

  3. #3 Posted by Chako Fairbanks on 02 Jun, 2012 01:29 AM

    Thanks Marc. I'd love to see a few examples of websites that use Cheddar
    Getter for a similar scenario - multiples skus, some recurring some not.

    Can you please send me a few websites to look at?

    I'd also like to see examples where they've done a good job skinning the
    checkout pages to match their website design really well.

    Thanks,

    Chako

  4. #4 Posted by adam on 05 Jun, 2012 02:30 PM

    Hi Chako,

    It's hard for us to keep tabs on how our customers are using the API, because we would need to have logins and accounts on all of their services. But I would be happy to help you customize your Hosted Payment page if you need some design advice. Can you send me a link to your current brand website?

    Adam

  5. #5 Posted by chako on 05 Jun, 2012 02:41 PM

    Thanks Adam! The website is: www.butifitness.com

  6. #6 Posted by adam on 05 Jun, 2012 02:44 PM

    Thanks, it looks like your CG account is called "FarmBox". Will you be adding a new product account for Buti FItness?

  7. #7 Posted by Chako Fairbanks on 05 Jun, 2012 03:10 PM

    Buti fitness is for a different client. :)

  8. #8 Posted by adam on 05 Jun, 2012 04:06 PM

    Hi Chako,

    I went ahead and made some aesthetic changes to match your site:
    https://butifitness.chargevault.com/create

    If you need to do one-time payments in addition to the recurring plans, you would need to do a bit of coding. Our API is very flexible, and Marc has linked to the articles you need in his previous post on this thread.

    Please let me know if there is anything else I can do!

    Thanks,
    Adam

  9. #9 Posted by Chako Fairbanks on 05 Jun, 2012 04:30 PM

    Thanks Adam.

    This would work perfect if we could have this drop down next to each type of
    membership. For example, we have 2 types of memberships, Sculpt (basic) and
    Sculpt and Tone (deluxe).

    Each type of membership status has 4 different memberships lengths, daily,
    weekly, monthly and yearly. Can this dropdown menu appear in 2 places on the
    same page? Sculpt (basic) would have a video sample with option to buy on
    the top half of the page and Sculpt and tone (deluxe) would have its video
    sample with option to buy (bottom of page)

    The less the customer has to move away from the product, the more likely we
    are to close the sale. :)

    Thanks,

    Chako

  10. #10 Posted by adam on 06 Jun, 2012 02:49 PM

    Hi Chako,

    The payment pages that we host are not that customizable. If you want to include video, and multiple drop-down menus during the checkout process, you would need to code that on your site, using our API to send the payment data to CheddarGetter.

    Do you have a developer you are working with?

    Adam

  11. #11 Posted by Chako Fairbanks on 06 Jun, 2012 03:03 PM

    I am but they've never worked with Cheddar Getter so I'm trying to do
    homework for him. Do you have Cheddar Getter experts we can hire?

  12. #12 Posted by adam on 06 Jun, 2012 07:33 PM

    We do indeed. What programming language is your site written in? We have developers in our community with knowledge of PHP, Rails, Ruby, Django, Python, and more.

  13. Dean closed this discussion on 23 Jan, 2013 01:48 PM.

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