Website Feature Request: Wishlist

Alasdairhurst · 18 Jun 2013 at 20:58

Website Feature Request: Wishlist & Email Updates

I was wondering what people including the OCUK team think about some sort of wishlist or multiple saved baskets for the website, with email updates for when items come in stock, go out of stock or are on sale (a bit like steam does).
Saving baskets is something i've felt that the site has been missing for a while but never got round to mentioning it, and i think the sale and stock updates would be a really nice feature

Hyburnate · 18 Jun 2013 at 21:03

Speaking from an implementation POV, the saving wishlist could be very easily done with cookies however for things to come into stock, someone correct me if I'm wrong, however it would have to be saved in a database.

Doomedspeed · 18 Jun 2013 at 21:05

A competitor of OCUK do wishlist saving (not the forest one, another one) so it must be easy to do.

Alasdairhurst · 18 Jun 2013 at 21:13

Hyburnate said:
Speaking from an implementation POV, the saving wishlist could be very easily done with cookies however for things to come into stock, someone correct me if I'm wrong, however it would have to be saved in a database.

Yeah, that's right. At the moment, the best we can do with cookies is have a saved basket. But it would be much better if we can have a few different saved baskets tied to your account and the ability to switch between them.

The main feature really that I would like is the email updates, but for that to work, then a basket/wishlist of these items needs to be saved in a database which is another thing that is useful anyway

Well, unless it is done on a per-item basis where you just select the item on the product page and put in your email address (or use your account) to "subscribe" and get updates for that item.

Ethermaster · 18 Jun 2013 at 23:19

Alasdairhurst said:
Yeah, that's right. At the moment, the best we can do with cookies is have a saved basket. But it would be much better if we can have a few different saved baskets tied to your account and the ability to switch between them.

The main feature really that I would like is the email updates, but for that to work, then a basket/wishlist of these items needs to be saved in a database which is another thing that is useful anyway
Well, unless it is done on a per-item basis where you just select the item on the product page and put in your email address (or use your account) to "subscribe" and get updates for that item.

That's a good idea, would help people that do a lot of "spec me a new built" threads, wouldn't be that hard to implement with a little bit of PHP and another SQL database or in fact you could just write it into the main user account database if you so wished.

cypto · 18 Jun 2013 at 23:55

Not quite related to the basket options, however that would be great to see.

Is the ticketing system (webnote) to keep track of all the messages related to that ticket.

When I had some trouble due to paypal checkout errors which resulted in 3 duplicate orders even though the order confirmation said "The transaction has been refunded, this makes no sense" I had to constantly rewrite the problem I was having each time as there was no running log of the conversation. I could be wrong and that is indeed the case on OCUK's end. So please correct me if that is the case but from my end it looked as if each message was a separate ticket.

It would work by submitting a ticket, and be able to see all messages relating to it in a list, with a reply button and text input box towards the bottom.

Leprechaun312 · 18 Jun 2013 at 23:59

it wouldn't be too difficult a task to do a wishlist, but it would take days of work to get right, building the database tables and figuring out what fields would be require and such, however setting up the email updates would be easily done and so would be the front end that the users would see. I would love to see it done but it would require a mountain of work

Hyburnate · 19 Jun 2013 at 14:20

So you guys mean something like, if something is out of stock there is an email field, to which someone puts their email address in, on submit it gets wrote to a file and then when it comes into stock all those email addresses get sent an email.

It could be set up pretty easily with PHP.