With Checkout & Registration Manager, you can add custom fields to your checkout pages. For example, you can add a special shipping instructions field to your shipping address section or add special gift instructions to your billing information section. You can choose which section to add fields and whether to add them to the top or bottom of the section. Custom field examples below show a list box used to let customers select to receive catalog issues and a check box used to opt-in shoppers to the store mailing list.

Add new fields in Merchant Solutions

1. Sign in to your My Services page.
2. Click the Store link.
   
3. Go to Checkout & Registration Manager.
   
4. Go to Page Configuration.
   
5. From the Order tab, click the link for the page on which you wish to add a field.
   
6. Select the section in the Page Sections table where you wish to add a new field and click Add.
   
7. Enter or select the following:
   • Display name - Enter a display name to label the field for shoppers.
   • Field Name Visibility - Choose to show or hide the field name to label the field for buyers.
   • Field Location - Choose to display the field and the top or bottom of the selected section.
   • Field Type - Select a field type based on your needs.
    
8. Click the Next button.
   
9. Edit or select attributes for the field:
   • Field ID - Enter a field ID to identify the field in your HTML code. The field ID will be used as the field name in your HTML code.
   • Field Sizes (for input field types) - Enter values for field width (if applicable) and field height (if applicable).
   • Field value - Enter a field value (for text boxes and text areas this will be the default text) or field values (for check boxes, radio buttons, menu, and list boxes these will be the choices from which shoppers select).
   • Character limit (for input field types) - Enter the maximum number of characters the shopper can enter into a field.
   • Validation rules (for input field types) - Select validation rules to check shopper input upon submission.
   • Required - Select whether the field is required or not to complete the checkout process.
   • Field Help - Enter helpful text (optional) to appear beneath the field to guide users in how to complete each field (where appropriate).
    
10. Click the Finish button.
    
11. Click the Save button to save your changes or the Save & Preview button to save and preview your changes.
    
12. Return to the Store Manager and publish your Order Settings.
    

Your new field now appears in the Page Sections table in the section you selected.

See Also:

• Select where a new field can be displayed
• Select a field type
• Validation rules for fields
• Make fields required in checkout
• Customize the help text for fields