How to insert an order form to a collection page
- OverviewHow to insert an order form to a collection page
- Step 1: Choose the themeStep 2: Edit codeStep 3: Add new templateStep 4: Open page.order-form.liquid
Overview
In the previous article, you are given a tutorial on how to insert an order form to a regular page, noted that there are slight differences between regular page and collection page.
[Order] form is an efficient way to collect orders for your business not only offline but also online. A simple order form offers quantity, color, and size including a special gift and so on, it depends on the type of product that you are selling.
You can easily insert your order form to a collection page in the/collections/wholesale
.
Collection page is to show the collection of your products, you can categorize them into alphabet order or in order of function, while regular page is just a simple platform for you to design with banner or some text, headline, brief introduction.In this article, you will be given a tutorial of How to insert an order form to a collection page in shopify platform. Noted that this tutorial is for non-sectioned themes, it is also available for the sectioned theme, however our team does not guarantee whether it can be function properly or not, it many cases it will work, in others, it will not.
How to insert an order form to a collection page
- Step 1: Choose the theme
- Step 2: Edit code
- Step 3: Add new template
- Step 4: Open page.order-form.liquid
- Step 5: Choose collection
- Step 6: Add new page
- Step 7: Check
Similar to regular page, you are able to list all products that available from your collection in a table, or in other words, a form. It allows one product per row along with quantity box check. Within one click, you can let your customers add to the cart all product in that form that do not have quantity box set to zero.
Following is the tutorial for you to create an order form to a collection page on desktop
Step 1: Choose the theme
Open your Shopify admin, go to Online Store > Themes.
Step 2: Edit code
Click Actions > Edit code at the theme that need to be edited.
Step 3: Add new template
Click Add a new template under template in the left side.
When the Add a new template box open, then in Create a new template for drop-down menu, chose ‘page’, in called box, insert the nameorder-form
.Step 4: Open page.order-form.liquid
Open your new
collection.order-form.liquid
template and replace the code by the content in this link.Step 5: Choose collection
Based on your needs, choose the collection you would like to appear in your order form. You can also choose all of your collection by creating a collection with the handle
all
that we mentioned in other tutorial.Step 6: Add new page
After done deciding which collection to use, at the Template section, choose “collection.order-form” in the drop-down. Then save your collection.
Step 7: Check
After finishing all the above steps, you might need to go to your business page to check out if this order form works or not.
Insert an order form to a collection page on app
Conclusion
After finishing this process, you can collect useful information from customer order in order to serve them better, if you get any trouble while practicing this, you can ask out with our support team.
Sam Nguyen is the CEO and founder of Avada Commerce, an e-commerce solution provider headquartered in Singapore. He is an expert on the Shopify e-commerce platform for online stores and retail point-of-sale systems. Sam loves talking about e-commerce and he aims to help over a million online businesses grow and thrive.Related Post