Version 6.0 sees the introduction of a new client area. It's fully responsive, it looks modern and clean, it works on both desktop and mobile, it has more functionality than ever. But, there's no denying the fact our order forms need some attention too.
A little over 18 months ago, we embarked on a project to design some new order forms, and we got a long way into it, with some great new designs, but we ran into a problem. First, we needed a client area that was based on the latest technologies, and was responsive - good news is, 6.0 takes care of that!
As mentioned in the release notes for 6.0, at this time, we are shipping two order form templates in the 6.0 beta that have been updated to take full advantage of bootstrap formatting and styling. Those order form templates are boxes and modern.
Over the next few weeks, we intend to release further order form template updates. So the questions really fall into two parts - first regarding existing order forms:
(1) Would you like to see all the existing order form templates and designs be updated to work with the new theme? Or would you rather the time was spent on making new designs and are happy to see support for older ones discontinued?
(2) Would it be of concern to you if every order form template we offer required Bootstrap 3 being part of your custom theme to control layout? Are there situations where implementing Bootstrap 3 into your custom template might not be possible?
And then onto some questions relating to order forms more generally, particularly for 6.1 and later.
(1) What is the single most important change you would like to see in the shopping cart process?
(2) What don't you like about the current shopping cart process?
(3) What product configurations do you want to be able to offer that you are currently unable to?
(4) If you had to edit template files to fully tailor the ancillary text and information on an order form template to your product offerings, would that be ok?
Answers to the above questions in particular would be very much appreciated, but general feedback is also very much welcomed. Our aim here is to gather feedback that will allow us to better understand what you are looking for, and how that might translate into an iterative process for developing new order forms moving forward.
I'll leave you with 3 examples of new order form plan selectors that will be coming your way soon...
