Best way to accept orders with no payment info

[lancermedia]

Setting up a wholesale site for a client that will allow orders to be placed, but not take any payment info (as that will all be done offline).

What's the best way to do this? Use something like COD payment option and just hide it on the page?

-Kevin

[Bruce - PhosphorMedia]

Re: Best way to accept orders with no payment info

Depends on how much control you want over spurious orders. For the most part, what you have will work fine, but it only takes one or two mental midgets who discover your site and believe they are gaming the system. For that, you'd probably want something to gate the orders by using an availability group.

[lancermedia]

Re: Best way to accept orders with no payment info

Depends on how much control you want over spurious orders. For the most part, what you have will work fine, but it only takes one or two mental midgets who discover your site and believe they are gaming the system. For that, you'd probably want something to gate the orders by using an availability group.

Thanks Bruce. Yes, by default no one can order from the site until an account is created and that account is approved and placed into an availability group. This is a wholesale site, so client has to approve and talk to all people first anyway.

-Kevin

[Bruce - PhosphorMedia]

Re: Best way to accept orders with no payment info

Yea, then hiding COD or anything like that should work just fine. You (or someone in a similar situation) could just hard code the COD field and use it as "Purchase Order".

[lancermedia]

Re: Best way to accept orders with no payment info

Couple of other questions regarding this:

1) Is there a way in Miva to bypass any shipping? I thought there was, for example if you sold digital products. Would love to not even have a shipping method listed for this client.

2) If there is a way in #1, can the Shipping/Payment Selection screen be bypassed completely?

This client right now is only using Miva as an online catalog. Only authorized users can place orders, and the orders themselves are just a way for the client to get the products they want to the client. No shipping and no payment info needs to be provided.

What's the best way to do this?

-Kevin

[Bruce - PhosphorMedia]

Re: Best way to accept orders with no payment info

One thought. Make all products PRICED at 0. Use COST instead to display price...the fact that they have 0.00 order in basket will let them go from OCST to INVC.

(Also need to have "Skip Shipping/Payment Selection for Free Orders" under shipping rules checked.)

[lancermedia]

Re: Best way to accept orders with no payment info

One thought. Make all products PRICED at 0. Use COST instead to display price...the fact that they have 0.00 order in basket will let them go from OCST to INVC.

(Also need to have "Skip Shipping/Payment Selection for Free Orders" under shipping rules checked.)

Interesting......will have to look into that.

Only problem is we'd really like to still have the full checkout process show the pricing, including the INVC.

Anyone know any modules that allow this. I know Emporium had an old v.4 module....but I don't think there are any for 5?

-Kevin

[Bruce - PhosphorMedia]

Re: Best way to accept orders with no payment info

Ok, here's another take.

It should be possible (with toolkit/toolbelt) to zero out the actual cost on the OCST screen using a hidden form post that just submits a coupon (call the coupon something like "QUOTE").

Then, on the subsequent screens, you could choose to hide the basket charges for the discount and use the "subtotal" as the Total. Since there should be no shipping/tax, then sub-total and total should be the same.

A little cumbersome, but you could do it. Did you look for a "quote" module or something for 5? (Of course, this would be a pretty simple custom module, but even that would run you a few hundred. We'd use the custom route on our sites, but we'd already have a custom module in place (which is about half of the couple hundred cost) so we'd have ultimate control of everything.