Manually charging for shipping?

[iceDonkey]

Hello all,

 

I have a client who wants to be able to charge for shipping after an order has been placed. Sounds easy enogh.

 

Some background info:

 

I have the SPPC

and the Order Editor contributions installed.

 

The SPPC contribution is being used to create a trade prices and a retail prices customers group. The retail prices group of customers will be charged a flate rate for shipping. It's the trade prices group which my client would like to manually enter the cost of shipping after an order has been placed.

 

I installed the Order Editor contribution to see how it worked and if it could solve my problem. The Order Editor contribution allows me to edit a current order to change the cost of shipping after a customer has gone through checkout thus, the order placed.

 

Ok, so I can change the cost of shipping after an order has been placed. Half of my problem has been solved.

 

The issues I have:

 

1. The client has already gone through the checkout thus they have already received their details to make payment without any shipping costs`.

 

2. Updating the shipping cost using order editor changes the shipping cost of the current order but the client cant checkout again after the shipping cost has been changed as they've already been through the checkout.

 

3. The client has already been emailed payment details if they have chaosen money order or bank transfer.

 

4. If I do make changes to certain pages the changes will affect both retail and trades prices section of the site when I only wnat to edit the trade customers section. For example, if I redirect trade prices customers around the checkout or add a checkout button to the order in my account it will appear in both retail and trades price customers.

 

I am aware Order Editor is for offline payments of orders however, I require something which will allow my client to manually charge for shipping after the client has placed an order. Once an order has been placed and the shipping cost added to the order then the customer can checkout and make the payment.

 

Does anyone know of anything which can assist me. I have done a lot of searching but haven't found anything with to solve this problem.

 

Cheers,

 

Ice.

[aegrnberg]

Hello all,

 

I have a client who wants to be able to charge for shipping after an order has been placed. Sounds easy enogh.

 

Some background info:

 

I have the SPPC

and the Order Editor contributions installed.

 

The SPPC contribution is being used to create a trade prices and a retail prices customers group. The retail prices group of customers will be charged a flate rate for shipping. It's the trade prices group which my client would like to manually enter the cost of shipping after an order has been placed.

 

I installed the Order Editor contribution to see how it worked and if it could solve my problem. The Order Editor contribution allows me to edit a current order to change the cost of shipping after a customer has gone through checkout thus, the order placed.

 

Ok, so I can change the cost of shipping after an order has been placed. Half of my problem has been solved.

 

The issues I have:

 

1. The client has already gone through the checkout thus they have already received their details to make payment without any shipping costs`.

 

2. Updating the shipping cost using order editor changes the shipping cost of the current order but the client cant checkout again after the shipping cost has been changed as they've already been through the checkout.

 

3. The client has already been emailed payment details if they have chaosen money order or bank transfer.

 

4. If I do make changes to certain pages the changes will affect both retail and trades prices section of the site when I only wnat to edit the trade customers section. For example, if I redirect trade prices customers around the checkout or add a checkout button to the order in my account it will appear in both retail and trades price customers.

 

I am aware Order Editor is for offline payments of orders however, I require something which will allow my client to manually charge for shipping after the client has placed an order. Once an order has been placed and the shipping cost added to the order then the customer can checkout and make the payment.

 

Does anyone know of anything which can assist me. I have done a lot of searching but haven't found anything with to solve this problem.

 

Cheers,

 

Ice.

 

That's a tough one... you may have to charge for the shipping as a separate "order"... because you don't want to mess around with your pages that will affect retail customers. Unless you are willing to create a separate section each for retail and trade.

[satish]

You need to create two groups and place the group id in session.Depending on the group id the code should execute.

So the case where You want your client to add shipping later modify code so that at a given stage he process is blocked.Now client in admin area will edit the order and sent to the customer who will login and check and make payment.

 

Lot of code modification will be needed for this.But is achievable.

 

 

Satish

 

Hello all,

 

I have a client who wants to be able to charge for shipping after an order has been placed. Sounds easy enogh.

 

Some background info:

 

I have the SPPC

and the Order Editor contributions installed.

 

The SPPC contribution is being used to create a trade prices and a retail prices customers group. The retail prices group of customers will be charged a flate rate for shipping. It's the trade prices group which my client would like to manually enter the cost of shipping after an order has been placed.

 

I installed the Order Editor contribution to see how it worked and if it could solve my problem. The Order Editor contribution allows me to edit a current order to change the cost of shipping after a customer has gone through checkout thus, the order placed.

 

Ok, so I can change the cost of shipping after an order has been placed. Half of my problem has been solved.

 

The issues I have:

 

1. The client has already gone through the checkout thus they have already received their details to make payment without any shipping costs`.

 

2. Updating the shipping cost using order editor changes the shipping cost of the current order but the client cant checkout again after the shipping cost has been changed as they've already been through the checkout.

 

3. The client has already been emailed payment details if they have chaosen money order or bank transfer.

 

4. If I do make changes to certain pages the changes will affect both retail and trades prices section of the site when I only wnat to edit the trade customers section. For example, if I redirect trade prices customers around the checkout or add a checkout button to the order in my account it will appear in both retail and trades price customers.

 

I am aware Order Editor is for offline payments of orders however, I require something which will allow my client to manually charge for shipping after the client has placed an order. Once an order has been placed and the shipping cost added to the order then the customer can checkout and make the payment.

 

Does anyone know of anything which can assist me. I have done a lot of searching but haven't found anything with to solve this problem.

 

Cheers,

 

Ice.

[iceDonkey]

You need to create two groups and place the group id in session.

 

Depending on the group id the code should execute.

 

I have two groups. A retail group and a trade prices group. Where do I get the group ID from. Also, I wouldn't know how to p lace it in session.

 

So the case where You want your client to add shipping later modify code so that at a given stage the process is blocked. Now client in admin area will edit the order and sent to the customer who will login and check and make payment.

 

Lot of code modification will be needed for this.But is achievable.

Satish

 

 

I'm comfortable in modigying code however, when it comes to working with sessions I'm still a little lost on what to do. Unless I can find some quality reading on the topic It wont be achievable for me.

 

Thanks,

 

Ice.