Hi everybody,

before i continue to struggle, i'll explain what i need to accomplish here first.

I'm building a Travel website in Magento (which is hard enough by itself).
Basicly we're selling virtual products that won't be shipped (is standard option in Magento), all good here.
When a customer wants to book a holiday package they'll hit the add-to-cart button and the item is shown in the cart and they'll get redirected to the cart page…so far so good.
Next we need a lot of customer information, this is off course not standard in Magento, therefore we need a (responsive) form with conditional fields and add prices to some of the fields which lead to a sub-total sum…all of which Web Form Builder can do.
An example of the form can be found here: http://cyclingholidays.nl/

What we need in short is this:
The customer picks a holiday package which is €500.
They add it to the cart after which they will have to fill out the form with data we need (the first 2 fields of the form are an example, they will have to be pre-filled from the Magento package data)
Some of the fields have a price attached (like bikerent, extra night etc)…these values need to be placed in our database and read by Magento to add to the package price.
After submitting the form the customer goes to the checkout page, just like in a standard (Magento) shop.

There you'll find the standard checkout fields which will have to be prefilled from the submitted form (checkout address fields) and the price has to be a sum of the package price PLUS the sum of the form field prices.
E.g. package is €500. Two persons are going, they need a bike for 5 days a €22 a day plus an extra night at the end a €75 = 500 + (5x22x2) + 75 = €755

All the customer has to do is check if all is correct, choose a payment option and hit BOOK NOW!

My question is:
if/when i hire a programmer (my skills aren't good enough), will i be able to accomplish this with Web Form Builder embedded in Magento??!
I don't want to use S-drive, all data has to be stored in our local database…seems more convenient for coding too.
We practically only need Form Builder to build the form itself…which makes sense.

I hope i made myself clear. If we can't get this to work we have a problem, so i'll keep my fingers crossed.

Thanks in advance!

Regards,
Ronald

From what you say. The form builder will create the necessary fields for you. What I suggest is that you collect the data based on selections and then after submission interrogate the MySQL or csv file with a script and display the price and selected items.
The form builder does handle a lot of your requirements but it may require to supplement them. A programer could get what you want with or without the form. Although the form builder is a fast way to create a nice form that supplies the data handling and email submissions.

You can get up and running fast yourself by creating the form and the received data could be used to email back a PayPal buy now button with quote etc. This would be a manual operation until it is converted to automatic. One person could handle one inquiry in about 5 minutes. Depending on how many packages you estimate to sell per hour. A personal reply by phone could sweeten the transaction. You could also consider using text to speech to thank a potential customer, would need a script however. There are some great voices available almost human sounding.

Hopefully here could be other suggestions given. This is just my 2 cents worth

@Prism,

thanks for your 2 cents worth suggestions!
I'll guess i'll finish the form with all fields necessary, at least to act as an workflow document.

A programmer would probably prefer his own code for retrieving the data....i only care about the end result.

Regards,
Ronald

Albert
I would further advise that you start by laying out your requirement on paper with the results and how they should be delivered. Even to placement of fields. Designing in software is not the best way to achieve a complicated setup. Plus a programmer would take less time and cost you less if they had a better idea of the requirement you wish to achieve.

Best of luck with your venture. I have quite a bit of loose change I can use if you wish. Programming and building sites to advertise is a hobby so if you need a sounding board I enjoy getting down and dirty with a problem. At 70 it keeps Alzheimer's at bay