Visitors/guests are now added to items after the items have already been added to the shopping cart. So, instead of attaching guests to items during the process of adding them to the cart, your online visitors/guests can now add all of their items to a shopping cart, and then just prior to checkout attach guests to the items. This change has helped to make it possible to allow guests to be attached to first level modifiers that require a guest.

Items and modifiers that require a guest displays in the shopping cart with a small image of a head along with a link that says, “Add/Change Guests”, in the Guest column. In addition, “Guest required!” is displayed next to the link (this can be changed using the following key: Site Admin Panel > Guest Related Settings > ItemGuestRequiredText > Guest Required!). When the link is clicked, the user is taken through the guest lookup process for adding a guest to that item or modifier. If a modifier inherits guest information from the main item (configured on the Modifier tab for the main item by checking the Inherits Guest Information from Main Item check box) a modified head image and text that says, “Inherits guest from main item above.” is displayed. The displayed text is configurable using the following site config key: Site Admin Panel > Guest Related Settings > ItemGuestInheritsText > value = Inherits guest from main item above.

A sale is not allowed to be finalized until all items and modifiers that require a guest to be attached actually have guests attached to them. Configurable text can be displayed prompting users to add guest to items and modifiers in this situation using the following two keys:

 

Note: There are two exceptions to the change in flow for how guests are added to items and modifiers: