Order Status - How to handle PayPal eCheque and Bank Transfer

[Sir Lance]

Hi

 

To make my system a little easy to handle, I have added a couple of extra status's in the order_status table which are

 

Pending (Bank Transfer)

Pending (Paypal eCheque)

 

I also changed Delivered to Delivered (Posted) as I get so my questions from users saying what the heck, I only ordered the products as hour ago and I have not recieved it etc etc etc.

 

When an order is a Bank Transfer then I manually change the status so I can see new orders comming in. The status of Pending (Bank Transfer), or Pending (Paypal eCheque) tells me I need to poll my Bank Account or wait for the PayPal eCheque email.

 

For PayPal eCheques, I note that the order is updated to Paypal (Pending) but in the comments states that the payment is an eCheque. I use batch processing, so I don't often see eCheque come up and in some cases I have posted to the user proir to their payment even clearing. I have been lucky I guess.

 

What I would like is when a payment is made by Paypal eCheque, I would like to have the status change to Pending (Paypal eCheque) instead of just Pending. I assume the change would be in paypal_ipn.php, but i am not quite sure of the change? I see in the paypal_ipn.php code that the (around line 206) that

'comments' => $order->info['comments']; This is code where I think I can strip out whether the Paypal payment is an eCheque or not. Then (around line 654) there is tep_db_query("insert into " . TABLE_CONFIGURATION . " .... MODULE_PAYMENT_IPN_COMP_ORDER_STATUS .. is set to 0, which equates to "Pending" in teh order_status database. Does it therefore make sence that if I do have an eCheque payment, I change this to my say 7 which is equates to Pending (eCheque) in my database ??? I find this code may be hard to test on my localserver and I am not keen to muk with it on my live server hence my question.

 

Now for Bank Transfer, there is not comment field updated just status, however I assume I will have to update checkout_comfirmation.php or checkout_process.php?

 

This may have already been answered in teh forums, but I must admit I try and search and get so many results (100's of pages), it makes it impossible to find my answer. Thanks in advance.