Denying purchase of 0.00 priced products?

[hardknock]

Hi all,

 

I was searching the site but I was unable to find an answer to this question. Now, it may be possible that this question has been answer; however, through my attempts, I have not been able to find it.

 

I am at a stand still and a serious dilemma. Right now, I have busted my brain coding a site that contains around 1700 products. I really need to launch the site but my issue is that if i launch the site, i am going to have about 800 products that are priced at $0.00.

 

I have tested it and it will allow a person to checkout with a $0.00 priced product (at least it will get to the final stage and ask user to click confirm payment, not sure if it will actually send)

 

Some solutions that I have thought about are not practical:

 

1. Turn off "display product on site"(this is not efficient since I would have to turn off each product individually, that would take 4 weeks or more with 800 more products to go)

 

2. I tried to just remove manufacturer from drop down list, but my search function is pretty good so a person can search for manufac by name and still pull up product, some of which that have yet to be priced.

 

My main purpose is to price about 100-200 products (in progress now), get the site up and running and continue to price products each day while the site is running live.

 

I do not want the site to sit idle for another 4-6 weeks while I price each product or turn off the products that I do not want to display at this time because the site has been sitting idle for about 19 weeks while the final coding was finished.

 

Is there any contrib or code that I can add that will block a person's attempt to buy a $0.00 priced product?

 

This way, I can safely run the site live, and price products and allow honest people to buy without worrying that someone will try and buy a product that I have yet to price, for $0.00.

 

Any intuition into this matter would be GREATLY appreciated.

 

Thank you.

[Guest]

Andre,

 

You could use this to hide prices if the price is $0.00 and some other snippets of this code will dis allow the customer from adding to cart if it is $0.00

 

http://addons.oscommerce.com/info/4085

 

 

 

Chris

[♥FWR Media]

Hi all,

 

I was searching the site but I was unable to find an answer to this question. Now, it may be possible that this question has been answer; however, through my attempts, I have not been able to find it.

 

I am at a stand still and a serious dilemma. Right now, I have busted my brain coding a site that contains around 1700 products. I really need to launch the site but my issue is that if i launch the site, i am going to have about 800 products that are priced at $0.00.

 

I have tested it and it will allow a person to checkout with a $0.00 priced product (at least it will get to the final stage and ask user to click confirm payment, not sure if it will actually send)

 

Some solutions that I have thought about are not practical:

 

1. Turn off "display product on site"(this is not efficient since I would have to turn off each product individually, that would take 4 weeks or more with 800 more products to go)

 

2. I tried to just remove manufacturer from drop down list, but my search function is pretty good so a person can search for manufac by name and still pull up product, some of which that have yet to be priced.

 

My main purpose is to price about 100-200 products (in progress now), get the site up and running and continue to price products each day while the site is running live.

 

I do not want the site to sit idle for another 4-6 weeks while I price each product or turn off the products that I do not want to display at this time because the site has been sitting idle for about 19 weeks while the final coding was finished.

 

Is there any contrib or code that I can add that will block a person's attempt to buy a $0.00 priced product?

 

This way, I can safely run the site live, and price products and allow honest people to buy without worrying that someone will try and buy a product that I have yet to price, for $0.00.

 

Any intuition into this matter would be GREATLY appreciated.

 

Thank you.

 

Only took a quick look but try the following ( AFTER backing up the two files )

 

catalog/includes/modules/product_listing.php

 

Find ..

 

          case 'PRODUCT_LIST_BUY_NOW':
           $lc_align = 'center';
           $lc_text = '<a href="' . tep_href_link(basename($PHP_SELF), tep_get_all_get_params(array('action')) . 'action=buy_now&products_id=' . $listing['products_id']) . '">' . tep_image_button('button_buy_now.gif', IMAGE_BUTTON_BUY_NOW) . '</a> ';
           break;

 

 

replace with

 

          case 'PRODUCT_LIST_BUY_NOW':
           $lc_align = 'center';
           if ( $listing['products_price'] < 1 ) {
             $lc_text = '<div>Unavailable</div>';
             break;
           }
           $lc_text = '<a href="' . tep_href_link(basename($PHP_SELF), tep_get_all_get_params(array('action')) . 'action=buy_now&products_id=' . $listing['products_id']) . '">' . tep_image_button('button_buy_now.gif', IMAGE_BUTTON_BUY_NOW) . '</a> ';
           break;

 

catalog/product_info.php

 

Find ..

               <td class="main" align="right"><?php echo tep_draw_hidden_field('products_id', $product_info['products_id']) . tep_image_submit('button_in_cart.gif', IMAGE_BUTTON_IN_CART); ?></td>

 

Replace with ..

 

                <?php if ( $product_info['products_price'] > 0 ): ?>
                 <td class="main" align="right"><?php echo tep_draw_hidden_field('products_id', $product_info['products_id']) . tep_image_submit('button_in_cart.gif', IMAGE_BUTTON_IN_CART); ?></td>
               <?php endif; ?>

[hardknock]

Thanks guys,

 

I am going to try a each suggestion and hopefully it works out.

 

Thanks!

[hardknock]

For some reason, Chris, the first option actually took the whole site down.

 

I am not sure because I cannot see why it would cause the index.php page to no display.

 

I am on to the 2nd option.

 

Thanks

[hardknock]

Andre,

 

You could use this to hide prices if the price is $0.00 and some other snippets of this code will dis allow the customer from adding to cart if it is $0.00

 

http://addons.oscommerce.com/info/4085

 

 

 

Chris

I tweaked this and changed it to "email for price" but the disallowing of the "add to cart", I have yet to figure out the coding for that.

 

So, now, all prices < 0.01 have an email for price where the price would normally be but I have yet to figure out the appropriate place to code for not allowing the add to cart button to display for price < 0.01

[♥FWR Media]

I tweaked this and changed it to "email for price" but the disallowing of the "add to cart", I have yet to figure out the coding for that.

 

So, now, all prices < 0.01 have an email for price where the price would normally be but I have yet to figure out the appropriate place to code for not allowing the add to cart button to display for price < 0.01

 

Is that not the code I wrote?

[hardknock]

Is that not the code I wrote?

I'll have to go back and place it in there again because when I did, I remember some issues. However, I have been tweaking around 17 different codes with multiple files (listing, new, reviews, etc) and I cannot remember exactly what your code did or may have not done. I've been at it for 2 days now, 8 hours daily and I have forgotten specifically.

 

I'll let you know,

 

thanks