Installment Plan Payment Module [Support thread]

Response by PM.

Hi Scott,

I, too, am interested in modifying this very useful mod to set a minimum order and limit by category.

You mentioned waiting to see about changes made in the admin before possibly adding the changes that beasleybub suggested, but how far away is 1.6 anyway??? :smile: I am sure that everyone that uses this mod would appreciate thos additional admin features. I for one would happily donate to make this a reality, this mod will be a sizeable part of our payments since we sell a lot of high-dollar items to mainly starving artists.:D

Thanks!

Matt

Re: beasleybub's requests: this is just a payment module. It's not an accounts receivable system. If you need a tracking tool, start with a spreadsheet and build up from there.

Re: your requests: if you have specific needs for customizations for your shop, you are welcome to PM me for a quote or post your request in the Commercial Help Wanted area.

Thanks,
Scott

Hi swguy (waving to you from the spacecoast),

Do you think this mod could be used for a site that only requires a deposit on their items?

It's a travel site that you can either pay for the whole trip up front or put down a deposit and pay the rest upon arrival. It's been making me nuts as to how to deal with this.

thank you,

betty

You could do this.

Another approach, depending on what payment modules you use, would be to simply modify the payment module to take (say) 25% of the actual amount.

Good luck,
Scott

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Originally Posted by swguy

You could do this.

Another approach, depending on what payment modules you use, would be to simply modify the payment module to take (say) 25% of the actual amount.

Good luck,
Scott

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Problem I could see with that would be if they wanted to pay in full.

Plus one thing I'm figuring your mod could help with I didn't mention in my previous post is that there is no zencart payment mod for the sites credit card processor, so by using your mod, the deposits at least would not have to go through Paypal.

thank you,

betty

Gotcha. Yet another approach would be to use the Invoice module, and then invoice them for either 100% or 25% of the total using Google Checkout (stand-alone).

Good luck,
Scott

Hi there! Any chance we can work together to make this function with Authorize.net to take advantage of their 'Automated Recurring Billing' feature?

Right now one of my clients offers payments but this was accomplished by placing a 'deposit' in the attributes which, when selected, gives a transaction to the 'enable ARB' via authorize.net -- was just wondering if that is something which can be 'triggered' from outside authorize.net???

Anyone have any experience with ARB and know if there is info which can be passed via AIM?

You'd have to start with the authorize.net payment module, not with this - and you'd have to code to their API, etc. etc.

All the Installment Plan module does is what the regular "credit card" module does, but with the ability to divide the total by a specified divisor. There's no logic that will cause recurring billing to occur automagically. You have to do it by hand.

Scott

Got ya... in that case I can still see using it to help people figure their 'payments' instead of the using an excel spreadsheet to figure before entering the ARB.
Ah... except then it will not enter the first transaction for them... right now they search for the first one then use a link to 'create ARB' -- thanks for the clarification!