Question

I am building an e-store and I need to have the ability to add fractional quantities to the shopping cart.

Admin would set a denominator per product (e.g. 8 would mean that the minimum purchase is 1/8 of a case)

I currently use a jQuery slider and display the quantity in the asp:Label which works just fine on product pages, however it gets out of hand with multiple sliders in the cart (I need to allow the customer to adjust quantities in the cart).

I really want to stay away from ugly dropdown lists.

Any ideas?

EDIT:

Fixed denominator is out of the question … 4/8 have to show as 1/2 …

EDIT2:

Usability is important too, + 1/denominator increment per click won’t work too well when a customer wants to go from 1/16th of a case to 3 cases

EDIT3:

@RichB: adding a SKU for a fraction of a case goes back to fixed denominator problem. if i add a SKU for 1/16th of a case, and a user wants 1/2 of a case, they would have to order 8×1/16th’s [not cool]. If you want to add a SKU for every possible fraction (15 SKUs in this example – this will make my Product page and the CART way to cluttered.

Answer 1

I ended up linking a product page to quantities in cart, so users can update the fractions with the slider on the product page.