By andjules on

I've got a D7 built & launched. It's for a furniture (bricks & mortar) store, and features products (I've got a 'product' content type). Client would like to start adding e-commerce-like features, without actually building an e-commerce site (they don't want to do online transactions, yet). Anyhow, the first feature they'd like is to allow visitors to build a wishlist (and then let the sales folks see it).
Ubercart had a wishlist module, but no D7 version.
Commerce has a wishlist module, but I haven't figure out from my research how friendly Commerce is to converting pre-existant nodes to products (we've already built 150+ product nodes).
And of course there is the wishlist module, which is not for e-commerce, but more of a social/imaginary wishlist.
Has anyone had any experience with any of these solutions? Got an opinion or advice?
Thanks in advance

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ayesh’s picture

ayesh commented

Flag module is one of the best modules, IMO, to do this.
It's not a straight forward module but supports Javascript flagging (adding to wishlist), per-user flags, caching(checking is_flagged is fast, blah blah) and Views integration.
So you can build Views with Wishlists.
Some examples are provided.

NOTE: You have to build the stuff yourself. It won't work as a nice wishlist module out of the box.

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andjules’s picture

andjules commented

thanks, will check it out!

p55mac’s picture

p55mac commented

I've been working on doing something similar for a very similar business.

You have two options

1. Hack Drupal Commerce or Ubercart by
– Renaming things like "add to cart" to "add to inquiry list"
– Removing the payment gateway

2. Use Flags as was previously recommended.
– Use views to make the compile the wishlist
– And submit the page using the forward or Printer, e-mail and PDF versions modules
– I had to hack the Printer, e-mail and PDF versions module to make it send the email to the site address.

Check out these two links
http://dev.nodeone.se/en/learn-flag-with-nodeone
http://www.ireckon.com/web-dev/cms/drupal/improving-your-product-page-in...

Of course both methods involve hacking which is not to be recommended.

I'd be interested to hear any other ideas.