Customise checkout form according to products purchased

Hi

We sell training courses, and we need to collect a fair amount of information at checkout. Some of the information is common across all courses, but some is required only for some courses. Our customers do sometimes buy two or more courses in one transaction.

The obvious alternatives seem to be 

- one product form per course:  but then we end up asking the same question multiple times, 

- one master checkout form containing all the questions that we might ever like to ask: but then we ask questions that aren't relevant, and people have to work out which they need to answer.

So, ideally, we'd have one master checkout form containing all the questions, but when you checked out, it would filter the questions and only display those that are relevant to the courses you purchased. Any ideas how this might be achieved? I can sort of imagine tagging courses and tagging questions and matching things up, I don't mind writing Javascript, but I am new to Squarespace and struggling to work out where to start. Any pointers would be great

Thanks in advance

- Dave

Thanks for the reply - that's what I feared. 

- Dave

Hi, I can't even find the Custom Product Form, only the Custom Form in checkout. The instructions in Squarespace's help center don't match what I see in my product editor. Can you please tell me how to create a Custom Product Form specifically?

Thank you!
Marissa

13 minutes ago, crisisandcreativity said:

I can't even find the Custom Product Form, only the Custom Form in checkout. The instructions in Squarespace's help center don't match what I see in my product editor.

Here's a screenshot of the new Product Composer (2.0). You'll see that the Custom Product Form section is right down at the bottom (highlighted yellow). The quick way to access it is to click 'Checkout' in the list of shortcuts in the Composer and then you'll jump there.

Thank you so much for answering so quickly! What I'm finding though is that that 'Custom Form' is different from 'Custom Product Form.' The custom form applies to all orders, the custom product form applies to whatever product you assign it to. 

In the yellow box here they describe the difference: https://support.squarespace.com/hc/en-us/articles/205811218

Their instructions to find the custom product form includes going to a 'customize' section which does not exist for me. Any insights on that?

Thank you!!

24 minutes ago, crisisandcreativity said:

What I'm finding though is that that 'Custom Form' is different from 'Custom Product Form.'

No, they are not different. There is only one form for products, but confusingly Squarespace tweaked the wording from Custom Product Form to Custom Forms, to try to make it easier for newcomers! Unfortunately they haven't updated their support guide either, which is probably making it even more confusing!

To add a Custom Product Form, click the Custom Forms button that I've highlighted and then add a new form. Once you've designed your form you can save it and then choose to use if for the product. When you add other products, you'll be able to choose whether you want to use the same form, use a new form, or use no form.

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Oh I get it now! Thank you, you're a life saver 🙂