I need to create institutional customer accounts

[protogabe]

Hi, I'm looking to create instutional accounts in addition to regular customer accounts. I imagine this would simply be a checkbox when you create an account that asks, 'Individual' or 'Company/Institutional/Business'.

 

Basically, we need this option for 2 reasons; 1)Distinguish individuals from businesses and 2) send the order through without asking for payment information so certain organizations to shop freely, come back and be billed later (business to business billing cycles are usually 90 days from purchase anyway). Our client has a longstanding relationship with these institutions and wants to give them the option of freely purchasing what they want and not having to 'finish' the transaction payment like regular customers.

 

Simply put, these accounts just don't have to pay online -- are treated special.

 

Any ideas?

 

Thanks!

gabe

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search contributions for business to business

[ozEworks]

The easiest way I know to do this is to flag some clients as members and offer a purchase order/accont type payment option for them alone.

 

There are two contributions you can adapt to make that work but it does require some custom code to control the payment option displayed to non-members.

[ozEworks]

Hi

 

I found this contribution that would restrict the use of the purchase order option

 

http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contri...ry/search,17188

 

it works on "new customers" but I am sure it would not be hard to change that to check for members/non-members

[protogabe]

Hi

 

I found this contribution that would restrict the use of the purchase order option

 

http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contri...ry/search,17188

 

it works on "new customers" but I am sure it would not be hard to change that to check for members/non-members

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I wonder if it's as simple as just rewriting the code to check for the "member" flag. First, the "member" flag would have been written into the database which brings up those rewrites as well unless im missing the idea.

 

 

Thanks