Layaway Program

[JR Bregante]

Hello,

 

Does OSC offer a layaway module?

 

Thanks JR

[sw45859]

not currently, i don't think, but sounds like a fun module to create, i might try that when i get done with my current project. unless someone else has already started on it.

[Christian Lescuyer]

What's layaway?

[Guest]

What's layaway?

 

It is purchasing it on installments but instead of credit and you taking the item home, you don't get it until you finished paying for it. Many offline retail stores offer it in the United States usually on a term of 60-90 days. You pay a percentage down, usually 20-30% and then make regular payments over the term. If you keep the payments up, then the product is yours at the end of the term. If not, the layaway is cancelled and some merchants charge a restocking fee.

 

I am going to be working on something for this but not so customers can start a layaway online but so they can make payments on existing layaways in the retail store. Seems to be too much hassle to start them online and you can get into legal issues I think, though I haven't investigated that much as of yet.

[Christian Lescuyer]

Thanks. I don"t think we have that in France.

[Guest]

Salut Christian

 

Vous avez pas ca en France ...d'aller dans un magasin et de faire une mise de cot? ?

 

Salutation

[Christian Lescuyer]

Salut Pierre l'Ours :-)

 

We do have ways to have stuff put aside. They're called 'arrhes' and 'acomptes'. But there's no provision to pay on installments.

 

All explanations (in French) on

http://www.finances.gouv.fr/DGCCRF/consomm...ficonso/B11.htm

 

And we also have the ordinary credit where you get the stuff and pay later, with interest.

[leeherron]

With the voucher/credit module, a method of creating a layaway could be built on the idea of purchasing credits ..

[Maureen]

There is a monthly installment contribution here

 

The mod can be adjusted to change the down payment and installment payments. The installment payments are called "monthly" but equally apply to weekly just by some word changes. There is interest built in which I also changed for what I needed. Would be absolutely perfect IF it wrote to the database.

 

I have it installed but have to manually determine the payments to invoice the customer as there is no record for this information past the checkout_confirmation page.

 

I added down_payment and monthly_payment to my `orders` table but will have to manually add the amounts for each layaway order. I also added the fields to display on admin/orders.php.

 

Maybe someone would be willing to tackle making at least these changes; it would be a great contribution:

• Record $down_payment and $monthly_payment to database table orders or orders_total
  
• Note the down payment and monthly payment amount on the admin/orders
  
• Note the down payment and monthly payment on customer's order history
  

To be fully functional, this would also need a component to edit the order for payments received/balance due but since I use an order editor that will allows me to write in adjustments I don't need to go that far with a re-write.

 

Anyone interested?