Work around for limiting money orders by customer

[pharry]

I have six folks that do some work for me and in return, I allow them to order as product arrives, but I hold it for later shipment, to minimize their shipping costs.

I need to get a copy of their order, but I don't want payment. I charge when I ship.

I was hoping to be able to limit the money order option to specified customers, but it doesn't appear that ZC supports this. So, I've come up with a workaround. I'm sharing this in case anyone else needs to do this, or even better, if someone else has a better solution to share with me!

I setup a new country called "ZBatchedShipping". I used Z only to make it go to the end of the list to more or less hide it from other customers. Except Zimbabwe and Zambia. :)

I setup a state/zone within that country called "Hold for Batched Shipping".

I limited the money order option to this new zone.

Now when my six folks place their orders, they can select this country/state, and the money order option is then available to them.

When they are ready to ship, I send them a statement through quickbooks. I have setup an item in ZC called "Payment Only", and it has a price of a penny. They use this to process their payment with a credit card. (They "buy" a qty equal to their amount owed * 100).

This is workable, if you have a better solution, I'm all ears!

[bunyip]

It's possible to restrict the moneyorder payment module to specific customers with a bit of custom coding.
First, you'll need to set up a configuration key so you can specify a list of customer_id numbers that are allowed to use money orders. Then you modify the moneyorder.php payment module so it only appears for a customer whose id number is in your allowed list.