Linking to contact form w. individual subject

Easily done with a forms plugin such as Formidable or Gravity. Just make two forms with the default value in the subject field being different in each.

Problem is, there are not just 2 buttons. I would need to create 100+ forms if I would do it that way, so I was looking for a way how to do it more elegantly.

Perhaps then you could have a pull down list for the subject and use 1 form? Hard when you don’t know the details of your application. You are going to have to make 100+ buttons?

I know this might sound weird.

What I’m trying to achieve is to set up some order capability for a customer. Basically the customer has a 100 something books and doesn’t want to invest in a decent web shop. On their current website they solved it with a html form with a dropdown menu while the form is then sent via email client. Not elegant, let alone functional due to lack of multi-item selection. But this is how the customer wants it…

Now I’m looking for a better way to accomplish this order process.

I thought of using a form, so when the user clicks the item’s order button, the book title is transferred to the subject field.

Those pesky clients ?? There are a lot of free ecommerce plugins so not sure what the investment would be. You need to show them the ROI.

The client is a client of a graphics designer, both with next to no web knowledge. I sold them the benefits, which are ease of administration and legal issues basically. But they do not sell enough that there would be a ROI any time soon. Then I suggested to have them write a simple email if they just sell a book or two a month. But this isn’t fancy enough… The cost for the plugin is not the problem rather the customizing it takes… Well, what can I say…