Body: <p>I use Drupal 7.43 with CiviCRM 4.7.2. My task is to create a little form for ordering items. It is just one single item which can be ordered and the payment can be done later on via bank transfer.</p>
  
  <p>I only need to track how many of these items get ordered (up to 10) in each transaction by a (most of the time) newly added contact. Both, the person who did order the item(s) and the web page owner should receive an email after sending the form.</p>
  
  <p>I want to offer a sum in the email since there will be a delivery fee too.</p>
  
  <p>So far I figured I should use a CiviCRM profile. It was easy to create a custom field for the amount of items. But I shouldn't attach this custom field to contacts since contacts should be able to make as many orders as they want and new orders shouldn't overwrite older orders. I don't understand how I can collect order details independent from contacts within CiviCRM. Of course all orders should have a unique ID.</p>
  
  <p>In addition to that I don't get where I am supposed to do the actual calculation for the sum.</p>
  
  <p>Do you know any guide I could follow? Fully fetched shop systems clearly would be much more than I need. I want to keep it as simple as possible.</p>
  
  <p>Or should I work with Drupal contacts instead? I do use CiviCRM mainly for its comfortable mass mailing capabilities.</p>
  
Comments.ContentLicense: CC BY-SA 3.0
Comments.CreationDate: 2016-03-06T01:18:42.037Z
Comments.Text: Have you looked at https://drupal.org/project/webform_civicrm
Comments.UserDisplayName: Coleman
Comments.ContentLicense: CC BY-SA 3.0
Comments.CreationDate: 2016-03-07T09:19:35.477Z
Comments.Text: Thank you for the link. I didn't know this module and will check it out.
Comments.UserDisplayName: Onsemeliot
Tags: <drupal><evaluating-civicrm>
Title: Howto order and manage ordered items
ThreadText: # Howto order and manage ordered items
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2016-03-04)
  
  I use Drupal 7.43 with CiviCRM 4.7.2. My task is to create a little form for ordering items. It is just one single item which can be ordered and the payment can be done later on via bank transfer.
  
  I only need to track how many of these items get ordered (up to 10) in each transaction by a (most of the time) newly added contact. Both, the person who did order the item(s) and the web page owner should receive an email after sending the form.
  
  I want to offer a sum in the email since there will be a delivery fee too.
  
  So far I figured I should use a CiviCRM profile. It was easy to create a custom field for the amount of items. But I shouldn't attach this custom field to contacts since contacts should be able to make as many orders as they want and new orders shouldn't overwrite older orders. I don't understand how I can collect order details independent from contacts within CiviCRM. Of course all orders should have a unique ID.
  
  In addition to that I don't get where I am supposed to do the actual calculation for the sum.
  
  Do you know any guide I could follow? Fully fetched shop systems clearly would be much more than I need. I want to keep it as simple as possible.
  
  Or should I work with Drupal contacts instead? I do use CiviCRM mainly for its comfortable mass mailing capabilities.
  
  **Tags:** drupal, evaluating-civicrm
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: Have you looked at https://drupal.org/project/webform_civicrm  
  > **username_0**: Thank you for the link. I didn't know this module and will check it out.  
  
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