Posted by jerodfritz on April 21, 2010 at 1:24am
A module I haver had success with capturing additional information at checkout for a product such as 'attendee name' is the Ubercart module : Extra Fields Pane - http://www.ubercart.org/project/uc_extra_fields_pane .
-Jerod , Centogram Open Solutions http://www.centogram.com

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I've used product attributes for this
They seem to work ok. They are all stuffed into a field so besides the email and order information on the web, their isn't an easy way to get them back out.
But, they seem to work easily AND I'm able to add different charges based on them which is a must-have for us.
+1 for product attributes
If you need to store and retrieve extra info at checkout (with an extra pane), you might take a look at uc_visit (the firfin version) is a pretty good starting point.
There doesn't seem to be a
There doesn't seem to be a project at http://drupal.org/project/uc_visit. Tried searching for it but that didn't turn up anything either. Do you have the link to the project because I would like to check it out.
http://www.ubercart.org/contr
http://www.ubercart.org/contrib/11753
Thanks
Thanks for responding - I kinda got sidetracked. ;-)
Did you try UC_Node_Checkout?
Just so you have the link this time: http://drupal.org/project/uc_node_checkout
The "helpful walkthrough" (http://drupaleasy.com/blogs/ultimike/2009/03/event-registration-ubercart) uses this module to do an event registration which may meet your needs exactly.