I just got a question from a client and instantly thought of my readers. The question is a simple one to answer and yet, no one knows about it.

You see my client sells Chocolate and when someone goes to order most customers want to order more than 1. So how do we set it up for someone to order 2, 3, 5, 10 or even 100 chocolates in one order so it’s seamless for the customer?

Sure they could go to the order page and change the quantity themselves. But don’t you think that you will lose sales by doing this?

I sure do.

Now I haven’t tested this personally but I can tell you from my experience that you are losing sales if your clients have to add the quantity manually because the client will forget or will see the price and back out.

So here’s a quick fix for this solution.

At the end of the product URL to the order form all you need to do is add the following:

&qty=2

The number at the end is the quantity you would enter. In the example above I am adding a total of 2 products to the order. If I wanted to add 10, all I would do is change the 2 to a 10.

So here’s an example.

To order just 1 of my Affiliate Program Setup Packages I would just use the 1-step checkout URL and it looks like this:

http://www.1shoppingcart.com/SecureCart/SecureCart.aspx?mid=E919F4C9-ADAF-4A66-9807-63E1E74FD68E&pid=002508019ecbde7ccc9614e63d8710fb&bn=1

Then if I wanted to add 2 or more my link would look like this:

http://www.1shoppingcart.com/SecureCart/SecureCart.aspx?mid=E919F4C9-ADAF-4A66-9807-63E1E74FD68E&pid=002508019ecbde7ccc9614e63d8710fb&bn=1&qty=2

Now, if you have a programmer you can do a drop down list where clients can choose their quantities and it would automatically add that many to their order.

It’s that simple! Talk to you soon.

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