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Hi there!

First off -- CiviCRM is great. I'm using it to help a local university radio station collect funding drive pledges online, which has provided a few challenges I've been working to overcome.

One suggestion I would make is to allow more than one dropdown for each bonus. This presents difficulties for things like t-shirts, which need both a size and colour. For packages with multiple t-shirts, this becomes a somewhat hazardous task.

I've gotten around this by requesting colour combinations from each of the bonus drop-downs, with sizes selected for each item via custom fields at the bottom. The user enters a dollar amount to pledge, activating bonus options. Depending on the requirements of the user (I.e., 1 t-shirt as opposed to 2 t-shirts and a sweatshirt), jQuery hides and shows options depending upon the dollar amount entered. This prevents the user interfering with options not applicable to their order.

My current issue is with creating an option to ship the items to the user. The default option is that the user picks up their bonuses from the station; for $10 more, the station will mail the bonuses to the user. As it is, I can find no simple way to accomplish this. I've created a new field attached to the incentive sizing fields, which I'm trying to use jQuery in order to change the total value before form submission if checked. Is there an easier way to do this that anybody knows about? Regardless, my point is that adding a "shipping cost" option somewhere just seems like a really reasonable feature request.

mods - If this seems more like a support post, please move it to the appropriate board. Thanks!