Comments upon user checkout

Is there a way in which a user/customer can add comments about their order during the checkout process? This is something that we need as a company. For example, we may need to know if we need to bill part of a bill to insurance or not.  If this isn't implemented, it would be something very nice to have in an upcoming release. Besides the comments, this shopping cart looks great! Also, another nice touch would be to be able to add one or two custom fields under "My Account" and possible encrypt those fields.

i'd like to know how difficult it might be to add customer fields.

like, we'd like to ask "Are you an alumnus?" & other demographic questions.

how difficult would this be for me, a non-ASP.net programmer to do?  How many different components of code would I need to modify?

appreciate anyone's help on this.

Both of these can be accomplished via code/database changes.  Not something a non-ASP.NET or non-Programmer should take on, but definitely possible to do.

What would be the process to add a field allowing customers to add a comment?
  Here is my thoughts on how to accomplish this; however feel free to add your comments.

  1. Add a notes field to the table in the database
  2. add the notes field to the order module.
  3. update the process order module to allow the admin to view the notes.

    I also read in a post that custom order notes would be added to the next release which should have been 1.30.


Thanks,
  Terry G.

Terry,

Do you think this would be difficult for me....ie. someone who's programmed in Classic ASP....but not ASP.Net?

thanks,
t

Hello tjennette,
  Well I am fairly new to ASP.NET myself and figuring out how this application works and how to make changes to it is a work in progress for me. I have read many of the forum posts however I still am not clear on what and where to change the code and database to make our comments from the customer a reality. The documentation is limited and when asking a direct question to the team getting a response may take some time. This tool works well for what it was created for now, we just need to figure out how to make the changes we require to have fulfill all the requirements specific from our users. I will continue to update this post on my progress.

Thanks,
  tg

Hello tjennette,
   I have gotten a response from the Developer forum post follow the link to review.
  
    https://www.nopcommerce.com/Boards/Topic.aspx?TopicID=1001

thanks,
   tg

Also look at the Attributes table. I've used it to add bank info to a customer and even encrypt that data.