Tutorial: Adding a Request A Quote Option to a Wix Store Product Page

This article demonstrates how you can add an option for site visitors to request a quote for a specific product on a Wix Stores Product Page. A site visitor may want to add this option, for example, to request a discount when purchasing a large quantity of a specific product, or to request a product with custom dimensions and specifications. In this example, we show how you can replace either the Add To Cart or the Buy Now button with a Request a quote button on a Wix Store Product Page. When a site visitor clicks Request a quote, a modal with a submission form opens to submit the quote request to the site owner. The site owner can then see the submission in the Form submissions tab in the site's dashboard.

To do this, we:

1. Add a lightbox to create the modal.
2. Create a submission form and add it to the lightbox.
3. Write the code for our Product Page to change the specific product's Add To Cart button's label to Request a quote, and to connect the button to the modal.
4. Implement the eCommerce Validations SPI custom extension.

You can also use this example for other use cases such as adding a Contact us to Purchase option.

Before You Begin

• This article assumes you have a Wix Stores Product Page on your site.
• For any product in a Wix Stores Product Page, you can provide site visitors with the option to either purchase a product (with predefined specifications, quantities, and price), or to request a quote. However, if you only want to provide site visitors with the option to request a quote for a specific product, and don't want them to be able to purchase it, you need to implement the eCommerce Validations SPI custom extension. This custom extension can be used to validate the site visitor's cart and checkout to make sure that the specific product can't be purchased. We show this implementation in the last step of this tutorial. To learn more about custom extensions, see Custom App Extensions Using SPIs.

Introduction

We created the following custom bookshelf on a Wix Store Product Page for this tutorial. When a site visitor navigates to this Product Page, we want them to see a Request a quote button instead of the Add To Cart button. When a site visitor selects their product options for the bookshelf and clicks the Request a quote button, we want a modal with a submission form to open, and we want to stop the site visitor from proceeding with the Wix Checkout process. Once the site visitor fills out and submits the form, we want the site owner to receive the form information along with the site visitor's selected product option choices.

Step 1: Create the modal

First we create the modal by adding a lightbox to our site from the Layout Tools section of the Add panel. We name our lightbox 'Request a quote'.

Step 2: Create a submission form

Next, we add a submission form from the Contact & Forms section of the Add panel, and place it in the lightbox. Our form has the following fields and looks like this:

Step 3: Write the code

Last, we write the code for our Product page. We break the code into steps to understand how it works:

1. First we import our frontend modules and declare our variables.

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   Understanding the Code

   Lines 1-2: We import the wixWindowFrontend and wixLocationFrontend modules.

   Lines 4-5: We declare our variables to be used later in our code, including the bookshelf ID.

   To get the bookshelf ID, do the following:

   1. In the editor, open the CMS panel on the left and click Wix App collections.
   2. Scroll down to the Stores section and click Products to open the Products collection.
   3. Find the bookshelf item in your collection, and copy the value in the ID (_id) field. In our example, the value should be cd59cd36-b6d2-2cf3-9d48-81793a7bdbbd. This is your bookshelf ID. To learn more, see Working with Wix App Collections and Code.

2. When the Product Page loads or when a site visitor selects a different product in the Product Page, we get the product's information. If the ID of the product on the Product Page matches the bookshelf's product ID, then we change the Add To Cart button's label to Request a quote, and add an event handler that runs when this button is clicked.

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   Understanding the Code

   Lines 1-3: When the Product Page loads, we call the initProductPage() function.

   Lines 5-10: When a site visitor selects a different product on the Product Page, we call the initProductPage() function.

   Lines 12-13: In the initProductPage() function, we get the information of the product on the Product Page.

   Lines 14-18: If the ID of the product on the Product Page matches the bookshelf's product ID, then we use the setAddToCartLabel() function to change the Add To Cart button's label to Request a quote, and call the onAddToCart() event handler when this button is clicked.

   Note: You can change the Buy Now button's label to Request a quote instead by replacing the setAddToCartLabel() function with the setBuyNowLabel() function, and the onAddToCart() function with the onBuyNow() function.

   After implementing the code, the Product Page should look like this:

   

3. When a site visitor clicks the Request a quote button, get the site visitor's selected product option choices (color, number of shelves, and meaurements), open the modal with the submission form, and stop the site visitor from proceeding with the Wix Checkout process.

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   Understanding the Code

   Line 1: We write an onAddToCartHandler() function to handle the event when a site visitor clicks the Request a quote button, and pass in the resume and cancel functions.

   Lines 2-8: In the onAddToCartHandler() function, we call the getSelectedProductData() function to get the bookshelf option choices that the site visitor selected. Next we open our 'Request a quote' lightbox, passing in the bookshelf option data. We then console log the data and call the cancel() function to stop the site visitor from proceeding with the Wix Checkout process.

   Lines 10-20: In the getSelectedProductData() function, we use the getQuantity() function to get the bookshelf's quantity, the getSelectedChoices() function to get the selected color and number of shelves, and the getCustomText() function to get the measurements (Width/Height/Depth). We then return this data.

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Step 4: Implment the Validation SPI custom extension

The last step we need to do is validate the cart and checkout using the eCommerce Validations SPI custom extension to make sure that a site visitor can only request a quote for the bookshelf and can't purchase it.

To do this:

1. In the Studio Editor, click , then Packages & Apps.

2. Hover over Custom Extensions and click eComm Validation SPI to add the validations integration. Then follow the prompts to add the extension and accept any terms and conditions that display.

3. Enter a name for your integration and click Add & Edit Code. We named ours validation-spi. The name can't contain spaces or special characters. Open the Wix IDE, and go to /src/backend/spi. You should see the spi folder there. It should look something like ecom-validations/validation-spi. If the Custom Extension doesn't appear, try refreshing both the Studio Editor and the Wix IDE.

4. In this spi folder, you should see 2 files, validation-spi.js and validation-spi-config.js. We write the following code in the validation-spi-config.js file to validate the cart as well as the checkout.

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   Understanding the Code

   Line 1: We import all modules from the ecom validations provider.

   Lines 3-5: We want to also validate a site visitor's cart, so we set the validateInCart parameter to true in the exported config function.

5. We write the following code in the validation-spi.js file to validate whether the bookshelf is in the site visitor's cart or checkout. If so, we return the validation violation and give a violation description.

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   Understanding the Code

   Line 1: We import all modules from the ecom validations provider.

   Line 3: We declare the bookshelf product ID as a variable.

   Line 5: We declare a validation logic to run on each item in the cart and checkout.

   Line 6: We declare an empty array of validation violations.

   Lines 7-8: We define the validation to prevent the site visitor from proceeding with the Wix Checkout process, and define the validation message.

   Line 9: This line searches for a specific line item in the options.validationInfo.lineItems array. It uses the find method and a callback function that checks if the line item’s catalogItemId matches the bookshelfId using the isBookshelf() helper function.

   Line 10-25: If we find a match, we add a validation rule to prevent the site visitor from purchasing this item.