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Skip that entire conversation and use this module if you wish to add surcharges for credit cards (legal in UK, apparently not so elsewhere, and someone is really worried about it and has put warning s everywhere for non-uk users).
http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?ma...oducts_id=1078
It works, it's stable (although the author says it's beta), it is pretty much I would have done except for automatically displaying the payment modules available, so I reckon I don't have to build it.
Philip.
Hi,philip_clarke
I think I will try to explain why I need this surcharge, so may help you to plan writing the codes.
I have protx on my site and it is the cheapest payment gateway in the UK so far. Worldpay is expensive, but I will use worldpay as alternative and backup. Because protx is not prefect and it always happen that some customers fail to pay via protx. I would prefer my customers use protx to pay if they can. If for some reasons they are unable pay via protx, worldpay can be put into use. Every time my customers pay via worldpay, I will loss some profit. that is why I would like to have surcharge on worldpay, to deter customes from choose worldpay without trying protx first. I will put some wording something like "We prefer customers pay by 1st payment option, and only use 2nd payment option when unable to pay by 1st payment option, since the worldpay is more expensive" in area say "please choose payment method". then customes still choose worldpay and pay by credit card, we can reasonable add surcharge on it. they have been warning beforehand.
although the different charge between protx and worldpay may be very tiny per transcation, but it will add up and become a large amount in long run.
no sure anyone will agree, but this is what I though.
thank you for your help and really appreciate it.
Just saw this post, I will try it and let you know the result. many thanks!Quote:
Originally Posted by philip_clarke
Yep all you have to do is put in worldpay in lower case in the module, instead of cc and it adds a bit of text that you can change, and voila, you have a surcharge just on worldpay. I have no idea about the difference in cost between the Gateways, but just check your terms & conditions for using both gateways before installing and going live.
Philip.
I replaced cc with worldpay, it appears working. However, there is a problem, the surcharge appears too soon, on the payment information page, where lists all of payment methods, the surcharge appears. This will confuse customers - they will think there is a surcharge regardless which payment method cusotmer use. What I want is only after customer select worldpay, then either surcharge appears or surcharge appears when cusotmer select worldpay and click "continue checkout".Quote:
Originally Posted by philip_clarke
do you know how to change the code to stop surcharge appears too soon?
thanks!
Doesn't the payment information page have a litte * next to worldpay and the words See Surcharge Fee Note Above. written underneath ?
You can also change the words in Admin using SURCHARGE Payment Description (HTML) so you could change it to Surcharge on worldpay payments only or something similar. Other than that, you should probably contact the original author of the module, because I think that it is exactly the correct place for surcharge information to appear.
Yes, I can change these text but it will be still confusing customers. I will try to contact original author for help.Quote:
Originally Posted by philip_clarke
thank you for your help! really appreciate it.
Hi,
I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask this, as in whether this is set in Zen Cart or in the WorldPay module, but I need to insert my VAT number into the notification email that goes out to the buyer on making a purchase and I'm struggling to find out how/where I can do that.
Is there an option to do something like this or does a file need to be hacked to make it happen? Any guidance is greatly appreciated.
(and my apologies if this is the wrong place for this query).
Thanks,
C.
Actually it's totally the wrong place, and I don't have a clue, I only have some general information, the "normal" way of adding the company details from this thread
http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?p=392615
is by plonking it in the address. Legally it's a requirement to have the number and VAT registration displayed on any invoices, credit notes or quotes, I'm not sure about emails (I wrote my own invoicing system so I've not need to set it up on own shop). This module
http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?ma...products_id=89
does claim to add VAT things as well as check's a customer's VAT number against company (which may be taking things a bit too far).
Philip.
Just got time to test your module Philip, excellent work - well done. :)
But a few issues is there in it:
define for FILENAME_WORLDPAY is missing in admin, causing the file not to be found.
email template for email_template_wp_callback.html missing, giving big nasty error twice on top of sites when returning to shop:
Modules core files and language files is in UTF-8, causing problems for most shops with t.ex. latin languages, since Zen Cart up to 1.3.8 is iso-8859-1 as default (will change in 1.4 to UTF-8).Quote:
ERROR: The email template file for (/home/.../public_html/shop/email/email_template_) or (/home/.../public_html/shop/email/email_template_wp_callback.html) cannot be found.