Using desks not customers

[conrad10781]

I own a computer store in upstate new york, I use oscommerce currently to offer customers outside of my store a way to purchase products etc.. What I am looking to do now is setup something similar for in my store..

 

Here is the setup.

 

We have 10 desks with computers/monitors/internet etc. We do BFY (Built For You) Desktops all of the time. We often have people who are browsing the parts and adding items to the cart to get a quote. we have the guest purchase module installed for our store oscommerce currently, and we have the customers build the machine as they want, and continue to checkout and select the pay in store option (another module) which emails the invoice to a machine that checks for emails and prints ever 30 seconds. We then get the paper, and have to re-enter all of the information over again when it comes time for the real payment. Not fun :(

 

Is there a way or current contribution that I just can't find to have when they submit the order it actually send the email, as well as hold its place until someone else comes along and "closes" it..

 

I was thinking maybe a index.php screen that when the customer sits down, it clicks on the desk its sitting at, and use that as a "hidden" value when it places the order, so we would know how to bring the order back up.

 

If anyone has any ideas that would be greatly appreciated... I don't mind coding, but currently after trying some things, I seem to have triple work.. IE 3 lines of code in 3 different places all doing the same thing :(

[conrad10781]

I think i may have found my answer in the recover cart sales contrib..

 

Although I am still open ears on any other ideas, as this will seem to take a lot of editing

[bobg7]

This is what I would do.

 

Create another copy of osCommerce in another directory ( 1-Directory called 'instore' and the other is the one you already have for 'online_sales').

 

During the install of the 2nd. copy, point it to the same database as 'online_sales', now both copies are pointing to the same database with 2 index.php's and Admin directory's. One for 'online_sales' and one for 'instore'.

 

NOTE: Any changes made in Admin in 'online_sales' may effect how 'instore' functions ant the other way around too. If you make a change in one, check the other to see if the changes did what you wanted.

 

Since both use the same database, 'online_sales' and 'instore' can share customer, inventory and all the functions (you wish to enable).

 

You can now start to customize the 'instore' look and feel. Add contributions, add a template or redesign the pages.

 

You will need to modify the payment pages to show to pay 'instore' and other pages to make it work, and it may also require some custom scripting to make it run smooth.

 

Now the :D 'Happy Customer' can visit your store, sit down and place there order, they will need to create a 'New Account' to do this which is a good thing for customer tracking and gives them a printed copy of there purchase. The customer now pays for there order at the checkout, a payment is made (Cash, Check, Credit Card) and the order gets pulled and the 'Happy Customer' is on there way.

 

But then thats just me :lol: