Select product, post job, preview & submit

  • Resolved sats

    (@sats)


    10 years, 11 months ago

    I was wondering. What is the reason that you first have to enter the job details and then choose product and not vice versa?

    Bought most of the add-ons including wc paid listings and jobify. Jobify has this great looking section of available products on frontpage.

    If you choose that method of posting you will end up with this approach.

    1) Choose product to put in cart
    2) Click the proceed to checkout button
    3) Login or enter invoice details, payment method and place order
    4) Click on Post job link
    5) Enter job details
    6) Preview job
    7) Select product (or select existing package – bought in step 1-3)
    8) Submit job

    You will most likely lose many customers during this long procedure which also has many buttons the client must find.

    I realize that these are additions to the WP Job Manager product.

    But would it not be more intuitive to have ‘Choose product’ as the first option always? Then you would handle the job posting and buying of products in 5-6 steps at the most. And you would have a more streamlined procedure and the possibility of a progress bar. No matter if you choose the “post a job” or “select product” approach.

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/wp-job-manager/

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  • Plugin Author Mike Jolley

    (@mikejolley)

    You can buy a package prior to submitting any job if you add one to the cart and checkout. After that its attached to your account.

    Thread Starter sats

    (@sats)

    Exactly. There are multiple paths to the same destination. And I think that will confuse many potential customers. It’s almost a mix between a job portal and a regular shop.

    I think it would be more intuitive if we had a more streamlined procedure when ads are posted. For example, if the customer always has to go through “choose product” first.

    Then the customer could make use of fancy looking sections of available products on frontpage. And buy a package prior to submitting. And still follow the exact same approach if he went the other way and selected the link “Post a job”.

    Thread Starter sats

    (@sats)

    An added bonus I’d think would be the ability to customize the job submission form according to the selected product.

    For example, Product 1 max duration 30 days, Product 2 max duration 40 days and then only allowing customers to set closing date up to 30 or up to 40 days etc.

    Plugin Author Mike Jolley

    (@mikejolley)

    You can control that flow. You can show a ‘post job’ link on your order confirmation page for instance so they checkout first, then submit a job with the package they bought. Make sense? We can’t *just* have your proposed flow because some people might want it how it is now.

    Thread Starter sats

    (@sats)

    I understand and have no problems with other people probably wanting it how it is now or in some other way ??

    Just wanted to argue for a single, shorter, more transparent and coherent way which could be used for both scenarios. Rather than the current two possible 6-8 steps long very different ways.

    A link to “post job” on the order confirmation page is an example of the 8 steps long approach I listed above. I understand it can be done that way. But it’s still a very long and incoherent way.

    Just trying to be helpful. Most alternatives out there are able to solve the task of adding and purchasing jobs in 3-4 coherent steps.

    Plugin Author Mike Jolley

    (@mikejolley)

    We have to bare in mind with any change or idea, the steps on WC side are out of our hands. Add to cart -> checkout -> pay -> thanks page. Those steps cannot be modified.

    You could however tweak WC for your 8 step process to make it shorter. e.g. redirect cart the checkout automatically. Redirect the thanks to the job submit automatically.

    Thread Starter sats

    (@sats)

    I understand. Would it perhaps be possible to control when to start the WC steps through the WC paid listings add-on?

    Then we could still have the two options available. Posting job + buying and buying package + posting.

    Option 1
    Post job (with select new and existing package) -> preview -> start WC ->

    Option 2
    Select package -> post job -> preview -> start WC ->

    Plugin Author Mike Jolley

    (@mikejolley)

    I could perhaps tweak it to skip the package selection step if you pass in a package ID to the page.

    Then you could code your ‘add to cart’ buttons to go to the submit job page with the package ID pre-selected and it would automatically add it to cart for you…

    In setting up my job packages pricing, I am offering packages that include unlimited job postings and unlimited access to resumes. However, it doesn’t allow me the option of “unlimited” at this time or I can’t figure out how to apply that option. It seems a number (even if it is 1) has to go into the option. Any direction you can provide would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

    Plugin Author Mike Jolley

    (@mikejolley)

    I’ll be adding ‘unlimited’ job listings in a future update.

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