Hi! I've got a new project that has a fairly unique requirement and the Shopify support team told me that it would most likely require a custom app. Here's a short description of the website:
The website is a care package gifting service to be delivered monthly to cancer patients, basically like http://www.birchbox.com/. In addition, they'd like to make products available for one-time purchase. An important point is that the shopify customer will be inputting their billing info, but entering a different delivery info for the cancer patient who will be receiving the boxes.
With all that in mind, the functionality that my client wants to include on her site is a search form for customers to identify if their intended recipient is already receiving the service from someone else. There are a few things we'd like to have included:
1. Would like to search by recipient(not purchaser) address and name. We'd prefer to avoid email or just name because it'd be easy for doubling to occur with recipients who have nicknames/multiple emails.
2. (Nice, but not necessary)If possible, we would like this form to appear before they begin shopping so as to avoid having to go through the whole shopping/checkout process before finding out their intended recipient has already received the service.
3. We would want this recipient query to be limited to recipients of the subscription products only. Basically, we would not want someone who has already received a one-time product like a t-shirt to be restricted from receiving the subscription product.
I'd appreciate any feedback on this as far feasibility, complications, etc. We're still in the nascent stage of this project but any estimates of cost to produce this app would also be highly appreciated and I would give contact information if you'd prefer to do this privately.
Thanks everyone for reading!