Hello Formstackers!
Today I would like to show you how to implement Limited Inventory Control that you can use to limit the products you sell.
If you are selling something that has a limited quantity, such as seats in an event you are putting on, then you can use something like this to make sure you do not sell more seats than you have to offer.
So for our PayPal Website Payments Standard integration, you really only need two things, your PayPal email address and a Price field on your form. I try to actively encourage users to stay away from those other options on our PayPal integration page, as they aren’t necessary and can often actually break your integration. However, for those curious types who really want to know what they do, I’ve decided to write this post.
Every submission in Formstack is assigned a unique submission ID, which is unique to the entire Formstack system, not just a specific form or account. These numbers are never repeated, so you can use them for a variety of purposes. One thing our customers have used this ID for over the years is for an order or reservation confirmation number.
Formstack automatically collects the IP addresses of users submitting forms. You can find this info on the Submissions tab of your form by clicking on each individual submission.
However, occasionally Formstack customers want to insert these IP addresses in their notification/confirmation emails. This is possible. To do this, you would insert this variable into your email: {$_ip_address}
With our PayPal and Google Checkout integrations, users are redirected to those sites in order to complete payment. Once they leave Formstack, we can’t force the user to complete payment, however. We do receive a Paid payment status from the processor if they complete payment though, and we use this to trigger your form’s notification/confirmation emails if you have them set to be delayed.
At approximately 12:20 (EST) Tuesday we received an alert that one of our web servers crashed. As we investigated, our other 2 web servers became overloaded with web requests and crashed. At 12:25 the Formstack website, forms, and admin login became unavailable. We had our data center immediately restart our web servers. Formstack functionality was restored to all users around 12:56. The Formstack outage lasted 36 minutes.
Hello Everyone!
I’ve put together the following video to show you how to create and edit Style Templates.
For those of you who would like to take this a step further and add your own CSS. This link will show you how.
If you read my blog post on How to Upload and Insert an Image into a Formstack Form, then this info should look familiar. Basically, it’s the exact same process to insert images into confirmation or notification emails.
Yesterday, I blogged about how to create a fixed price order form. Today, we’re going to go over how to build a single item order form that also contains a quantity. In the following weeks, I’m going to continue to blog about order forms, slowly getting into more complicated forms as we go along. Eventually, these blog posts will probably be used to create a new “Example Form” chapter in our documentation, as building order forms seems be something many of our users have issues with.
If you’re selling a single item, such as a book, and the price is fixed for all users submitting the form, then setting up your form should only take a few minutes.
Start with a blank form and give it a name.
