WCW Payment Methods for Groups OPAY Screen how to?

[kayakbabe]

I just bought Bill's Payment Methods for Groups and got it installed for the OSEL screen.
I am using the ability of the module to change the payment method label.
However that new 'label' doesn't carry throughout the checkout process to the opay and invoice screens.
In the docs I see mention of using it on the opay screen but no examples or install documentation.

I tried adding the paygroups item to opay. and inserting the token before any of the payment storemorph codes.
<mvt:item name="paygroup" param="opay" />

I figured the module would intervene with the variables but it doesn't. I can't find any more documentation about the opay or invoice screens and this module.

Does anyone know how to do this?

Kelly

[wcw]

Re: WCW Payment Methods for Groups OPAY Screen how to?

The opay and invc are to pass on a message. For example, if they select pay by check you could have a message about check from US funds mailed to ........ and that the items will be shipped when the check clears. Each payment method can have a different message. Click the edit button next to the payment method in admin to edit the html message.

[kayakbabe]

Re: WCW Payment Methods for Groups OPAY Screen how to?

Oh, that's not what I expected to occur. that message thing is nice though. makes it easy to add extra text.

For example, I am repurposing the COD module to allow for checkout without payment. But I want to hide the text COD that is generated by the COD payment type.
On OSEl, your module will display what I set for the label in the module. But unfortunately the label changes on OPAY and in the rest of the checkout. I want to use that alternate label throughout the checkout process.

i looked at the local and global vars, but don't see anything that I could do an if then on in order to get the label out of your module.

[wcw]

Re: WCW Payment Methods for Groups OPAY Screen how to?

It only changes the drop down on the osel since it replaces and re-sorts that array.

If you wanted to change the field prompts you would need to do that with conditional text in the template. No module could ever predict what the various fields and prompts would be for every payment module. Some might have one line, eg Check: whereas others might have CC #, expire date, CVV, etc. So it has to be the payment module that supplies the prompts. But using conditional code you could test for g.paymentmethod and write some special prompt if it was cod.

[wajake41]

Re: WCW Payment Methods for Groups OPAY Screen how to?

Hello Kelly: We do something like what you want to do using the toolkit callURL function in OPAY. We update the payment method descrip column in the s01_basketCharges table with our unique payment description using a simple PHP program. Doing this ensures that the custom payment method description is passed on to INVC and the customer & merchant notifications. To do what you want, I would use the callurl function in the basket tab of OPAY, passing the basket_id & the text that you want to see in the payment method. I can provide our PHP code as a starting point if this is something you want to attempt. LATER: I thought a little more about this and what I suggested probably won't help you Kelly Looks like you need to get your payment information into the s01_Orderpayments table. That would have to happen after OPAY process I think. Maybe a custom basket field would work as that is passed to the order and then you could display that field on the INVC page and the confirmation emails. Larry

[kayakbabe]

Re: WCW Payment Methods for Groups OPAY Screen how to?

Luce,
Thanks for all the ideas. I'm not worried about the data we download when we download orders... so getting it into the basketCharges or OrderPayments tables as the exactly right thing isn't an issue. This site is really just a B2B tool for making "quotes" or lists of products we sell, so that potential buyers can have a starting point for discussion. Our buyers are distributors and each one makes special pricing deals depending on their volume. We might at some point open it up to them being able to purchase and thus bypass human error. But it won't ever be a retail website. If we go to that next step of doing something that we download, the kinds of payment modules are going to be Net 30 and purchase orders for billing purposes. We don't do COD so it makes sense to use that for this "no purchase' list building scenario.

Your suggestions though are making me think. I can probably just do an if-then on the global paymentMethod in each of those places in the checkout sequence, INVC and the email templates too. That way at least it looks right and won't confuse the 'buyers'.

Kelly

[Rick Wilson]

Re: WCW Payment Methods for Groups OPAY Screen how to?

Kelly,

Have you seen our Manage Quotes tool?

[kayakbabe]

Re: WCW Payment Methods for Groups OPAY Screen how to?

No, I haven't. That sounds interesting. Tell me more!

[Rick Wilson]

Re: WCW Payment Methods for Groups OPAY Screen how to?

We have a PDF explaining how it works, I just emailed Philip Hansen and CC'd you to get you a copy.

[GDesigns]

Re: WCW Payment Methods for Groups OPAY Screen how to?

Rick - I am interested as well - mind sending me some info?
Thanks much!