Requirement to Pay a Deposit Only

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All,

 

I've posted this request before, but I'll try and articulate the problem a bit better. I have a site going live in 3 days and I'm getting anxious, not to mention the store owner, over finding even a partial solution. The shop will be selling holiday packages with the full price listed in the online catalog. The shop however will only charge a fixed $75 deposit per package with the remainder paid by the client directly to the vendor.

 

My first question, which is suited to this thread, is how can I modify the PayPal IPN contribution to forward only a fixed $75 per package to PayPal for payment by the client? The contribution must take an existing memory variable from OsCommerce, or grab the price from the database itself, and then send it on. Can I simply change the code to have it fixed at $75, or multiples of that if several packages are purchased? there are no other charges involved, not tax or shipping. Can someone please give me some advice? at least a description of what code needs changing and I'll have a play.

 

The second question, which would fix the first question but is a little off-topic, is can I modify the code earlier, somewhere, so that it will flow through the whole of OsCommerce? The larger issue is that although the client may be charged only the deposit in PayPal if I modify the contribution, there are still e-mails to the client, and records of orders etc throughout OsCommerce that will record the sale at the full catalog price.

 

The merchant wants to retain the functionality of the Specials so that cannot be used as a method of achieving the deposit price.

 

Any help, even thinking aloud, will be most helpful. I have seen this issue asked before so if anyone is looking for ideas for a contribution this issue may be worth considering.

 

Thanks in anticipation,

Roman