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orders not showing in admin


rubygirl

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Just finished up with a new system - Dec 2002 snapshot - everything is going well except the orders are not showing in the admin area!

 

The order can be completed as a customer - email is sent to customer as confirmation - but admin still shows 0 orders....

 

where do I start to fix this?

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Both configure.php files point to the same database....but the one in the catalog has pconnect set to true, and the one in the admin has pconnect set to false.

 

Would that cause this problem? Should they both be set to the same value?

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Is this happening with Paypal for you?

 

I have since found, that if the customer does NOT click the "Continue" link on the paypal confirmation screen, thereby returning to your site, (for example, if they just close the paypal window after making payment), then the order process is not deemed "complete". It is necessary for the customer to return to your site for their order information to show up in your admin/customers/orders.

 

I have added a LARGE red warning to the bottom of the checkout_confirmation.php page warning customers that they must do this.

 

Perhaps the dev team could look at doing something to have the order information passed to the orders file when checkout has been completed, rather than relying on the customer to click the continue link from Paypal...which they are not even aware they are required to do.

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by they way - the orders are posting in the database - just not showing in the admin....

 

Make sure you did not delete your orders_status table and that all orders have a status to them.

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Linda,

 

I just checked the database and I do have the order_status table but there aren't any status entries - the orders show in the orders table

 

still nothing showing in the store admin area - why wouldn't the status be entered and how do I fix that?

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orders_status table hold the values for Pending, Processing and Delivered ...

 

If they do not exist in your orders_status table when the look up is done referencing this value there is nothing there so you see nothing.

 

You can look carefully in the original oscommerce.sql file and see where this table is created and what is put into it.

 

Be sure to backup your MySQL database before fixing anything.

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I use the latest snap and PayPal IPN. If the customer does not click continue, we get the money...just not the order. While that may sound like a "class A" headache, it really pi**es the customers off when we take their money but don't ship their orders. I would love to see a hack to fix this.

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