Revision as of 17:19, 9 February 2017

WHMCS includes a number of standard order form templates to choose from to provide the best ordering experience for your visitors. To select a template navigate to Setup > General Settings > Ordering tab. This page describes the various templates, for instructions customising them refer to Order Form Templates.

Templates

Standard Cart

The default shopping cart experience in Version 6.1 and later. Compatible with all types of products.

Premium Comparison

Premium Comparison

Perfect for comparing a number of products/services. You should utilise the product features functionality to define comparable features/values, and ensure you have the same format/order for all descriptions of products within the group for best results.

Pure Comparison

Pure Comparison

Perfect for comparing a number of products/services. You should utilise the product features functionality to define comparable features/values, and ensure you have the same format/order for all descriptions of products within the group for best results.

Supreme Comparison

Supreme Comparison

Perfect for comparing a number of products/services. You should utilise the product features functionality to define comparable features/values, and ensure you have the same format/order for all descriptions of products within the group for best results.

Universal Slider

Universal Slider

Allows you to showcase your products in a slider format that can work universally for any type of product. Includes support for comparison of product features with percentage bars as well as support for a free-form text description. For best results we recommend utilising the product feature functionality to define 4 or 8 comparable features/values and using the same product description format for all products within the group - this avoids page shifting on sliding between products.

Cloud Slider

Cloud Slider

Perfect for comparing a number of products/services. You should utilise the product features functionality to define comparable features/values. For best results use 4 feature/value comparisons. and ensure you have the same format/order for all descriptions of products within the group for best results.

Boxes

Boxes

A flexible cart that is designed to work for most types of products.

Modern

Modern

A flexible cart that is designed to work for all types of products.

Using Feature Highlights

Feature Highlights allow you to define features and their values for products in a way that WHMCS can interpret for comparison based display.

Feature Highlights are supported by most order form templates. See the above descriptions for exact details.

Usage

Feature Highlights are specified as part of the product description. They must be entered in the following format, with one feature per line.

Feature: Value

For example, the description for a shared hosting product using Feature Highlights might look like this:

Disk Space: 1000MB
Bandwidth: 5GB
Email Accounts: 5
Subdomains: 3
Addon Domains: 1

The preview on the right shows how the above would be rendered in the Premium Comparison order form.

Disabling Feature Highlights

There may be occasions when it's required to disable feature highlights, such as when wishing to use other markup in the product description. To do this, simply edit the /templates/orderforms/*your active template*/products.tpl template file and perform these two edits:

1. Replace {$product.featuresdesc} with {$product.description}
2. Remove/comment out:

{foreach from=$product.features key=feature item=value}

<span class="prodfeature"><span class="feature">{$feature}</span><br />{$value}</span>
{/foreach}

Save changes and upload the modified template file. Now product descriptions will be displayed as entered.

Using Different Templates for Different Products

It is possible to specify the template you want to use for a product in the URL you use to link to the order form. And therefore by doing that you can use multiple different templates concurrently and thus use the one that best suits each product or type of product you offer.

Details on how to do this can be found in the article: Linking to WHMCS - Order Links

Discontinued Order Form Templates

The following shopping carts are no longer shipped with releases and are provided for legacy users only.

Cart

Cart

Replaced by the Standard Cart in 6.1. This cart is now deprecated and will no longer receive updates.

Comparison

Comparison

Replaced by Premium Comparison/Supreme Comparison in 6.1 and 6.2. This cart is now deprecated and will no longer receive updates.

Slider

Slider

Replaced by the Universal Slider in 6.2. This cart is now deprecated and will no longer receive updates.

Verticalsteps

Vertical Steps

Replaced by the Standard Cart in 6.1. This cart is now deprecated and will no longer receive updates.

Ajax Cart

This cart was deprecated in 5.0 and will no longer receive updates.

Web20cart

This cart was deprecated in 5.0 and will no longer receive updates.