I’ve been doing a lot of learning and experimenting with this platform (MV 4.17.1). Most recently my vendors are not keen with the current message addon - it is so limited and lacks the simplest of features (attachments being the big one). Considering so many use FB messenger would the code below work if added to a products template to “message the vendor”?
If so, I’m not entirely sure what specific template or what line to place it on.
{if $product.vendor}
<span class="vendor">{$product.vendor|escape}</span>
<a href="https://m.me/{$product.vendor_id}" target="_blank">Contact Vendor</a>
{/if}
You can try to add this code using the hook products:options_advanced, just like the Message center add-on adds the Ask a question link on the product’s details page.
Do I just place it anywhere in:
design/themes/[THEME]/templates/views/products/components/products_options.tpl
??
Certainly it can’t be THAT easy, must be more to this to function properly.
No, definitely not like that 
Please check this article first and if any other questions remain, feel free to ask:
https://docs.cs-cart.com/latest/developer_guide/addons/hooking/tpl_hooks.html
Well, I’ve been reading and trying understand, even edited tpl files (I don’t feel comfortable doing that) - and nothing seemed to have worked.
I would assume it would be easy to add such a simplistic line of code.
I’ll add it to the list of 14 other things that I’ll have to get a hired programmer to implement.
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