Thanks to all the help we got the free form donations working in the commerce module. CiviCRM was not practical for this exercise due to time constraints. http://commerceguys.com/blog/using-custom-line-items-provide-donation-featur... was a lot of help.
Does anyone know if it is possible to add fields to collect name and contact data. I have tried adding to the Products and tried setting cck fields in the content type needed for display but none provide data entry other than what is built in to the commerce module.
Would appreciate some insight as to how to get the contact details working. thank you in advance Roger