[NSFW] Streamlined Product-to-Subscription Selection

Hi @atlasmeta

I hope you’re well today!

You could possibly use pre-populate option for that but I’m not quite sure how your checkout works in this case.

In general, what you could do would be this:

1. first, add e.g. a select field to the form for subscription selection and configure PayPal payment amount based on that select field selection

2. second, in that “select” field’s “Settings” you’ll find “Pre-populate” option at the bottom so you would nee to add a name of a custom URL variable (query var) there; for example, put word “package” there

3. and then if you visit your checkout page like site.com/checkout/?package=option1 the select field will automatically “option1” selected; this will reflect payment amount too. So you can simply create direct link on each product page using such URL with relevant options.

Here is more information about it

https://wpmudev.com/docs/wpmu-dev-plugins/forminator/#pre-populate-form-field-values

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However, I see that the store/checkout itself is WooCommerce but then on the checkout page you have Forminator form instead of standard WooCommerce forms.

Forminator doesn’t directly integrate with WooCommerce this way so I’m not sure how it relates there and how this is expected to work.

Would you, please, explain it a bit more?

Kind regards,
Adam

Thank you for bringing this to my attention.

I’m eager to ensure a seamless integration between the Forminator form and WooCommerce. Could you provide any specific guidance or suggestions on the best practices or methods to achieve this integration effectively? I want to ensure that the integration aligns perfectly with the functionality of the checkout process. Your insights or pointers would be greatly appreciated in ensuring a smooth and efficient integration.

Hi @atlasmeta

Thank you for response!

If you are looking for a tight integration of form with WooCommerce checkout, then I’m afraid it’s not possible out of the box and it wouldn’t be easily doable with some workarounds.

You would need it to be custom coded so the payment (and probably some “package/subscription name”) would be passed over to the form from the WooCheckout and then so upon successful form submission – Woo order status would be properly set.

This requires quite a complex custom code, integrating with both plugins using their available action/filter hooks and methods. Providing such code/solution is far outside the scope of this support, I’m afraid.

There is integration planned but the other way around – one that would allow Forminator to use WooCommerce as payment gateway (in addition to Formiantor built-in Stripe and PayPal) but that’s not exactly the same and I don’t have an ETA on this. I’d rather not expect it to be added any time soon.

At this point, aside for fully custom solution (which you’d need to have custom coded for you by some experienced 3rd-party developer with a good knowledge of both plugins), the closest I cold suggest would be what I suggested in the previous post:

– create a “select” field in your form, with options according to different products on site and enable “calculations” for that field, setting relevant value (that’d be price) for each option
– then configure and enable the “pre-populate” option for that field – as described previously
– and on your product pages add buttons pointing to such pre-populate URLs
– on the form then add “calculation” field and use the “select” filed as calculation formula
– and then use that calculation field as PayPal payment.

That’s as close as it can get. The downside is that your customers would only be able to by “one product at the time” this way – they won’t have the “shopping cart” at their disposal.

Otherwise, while I’d love to suggest using Formiantor, I would say using just core WooCommerce features to handle those payments would be better solution.

Kind regards,
Adam

Hi @atlasmeta,

Since we haven’t heard from you for a while. I’ll mark this thread as resolved for now. Please feel free to open a new thread if you have new queries.

Best Regards
Nithin