Advertisement workflow backwards

[Ocean West]

The current method as a user to purchase an advertisement:

• click item 
• enter url
• drag & drop image
• optionally add "smaller" images
• add it to cart
• rinse & repeat for additional items.

I feel this is backwards because there are too many steps to completion. Why waste the bandwidth and upload artwork if they abandon the cart?
You loose the impulse buyer because you can't pay until you have supplied all the artwork which you may not have at hand or in many cases the ads are designed by another person.

The user should be able to add multiple ad unit / campaign to the cart and then checkout.

Once they checkout from their store account they could manage the ad submission (artwork & urls).

The renewal date would only goes in to effect based on the day they submit this info and if required approved by admin.

 

 

[Ocean West]

also the logic to evaluate appropriate discounts does not work effectively. Once items are in the cart there needs to be another re-evaluation of cart contents and the rules for discounting. So that all items reflect the discount.

Currently i think the logic only is applied on adding items to the cart - and if you do it out of sequence the discounts will not apply also if you choose a child item first then add the parent second they do not become linked. 

[Ocean West]

expired ads should retain artwork (archive them)  should you need to prove what ads were run along with statistics (clicks / impressions)

 

[Ocean West]

also no way to restrict ad unit to a specific size and options to disable uploading of "smaller" ads.