How do I prevent "Cash on Delivery" on dropship products?

[marksu]

I have some dropship product and regular own stock products in store.

Is there a way to prevent users to order the drop ship products without "Cash on Delivery" feature, without removing the "Cash on Delivery" feature compleately?

[Kim]

What happens if the customer orders one of each?

[marksu]

Well my preference would be that when user goes to checkout Zen Cart disables "Cash on Delivery" feature only if atleast one Drop Ship product exist in the cart.

Is that possible?

[Kim]

Almost anything is possible. You will need some sort of a "flag" on the products that are dropship only and then you need to test the cart for products with that flag. Can you write php?

[marksu]

Ou I know anything is possible well allmost anything.

I know php wery well.
I was wondering if ready made solution was existing, befor foing any code change on my own.

[Ajeh]

As Kim suggested, there would need to be some type of flag or indicator that can be checked for concerning the products to know what kinds are in the cart ...

Do you have a flag already, such as:
All Products in a specific Category
Model Number
Additional Field
etc. etc. etc.

With a flag, that can use a function in the shopping_cart.php class to test the cart content to know if 1 or more Products have the "flag" ...

[marksu]

OK I was wondering is sutch feature allready existed and according to your resposes it does not.

Therefore I will program it my self.

I installed allready the dropshipping module which flags each product if it is from own stock or a drop ship supplier.

I must take a closer look at the code how to det the "flag" info.

Thanks for your comments and especially the reference to shopping_cart.php class was wery helpfull. Now I know where to start.

[dutchkiwis]

Hi Marksu,

I am very surprised to hear there is no 'ready' solution for your problem yet. Let me know how you get on with this development - I have a similar situation: when the customer selects shipping method table rate I want to disable payment method cash on delivery. I don't want the mailman to collect the cash.

Our problem screams for a generic approach that allows admin to set allowed the shipment/payment combinations AND default settings for any combination.

My PHP skills are limited but let me know if I can help.

Thanks,
Ed

[Ajeh]

You could edit the payment module for cod.php and change:

        $this->enabled = ((MODULE_PAYMENT_COD_STATUS == 'True') ? true : false); 

to read:

      if ($_SESSION['shipping']['id'] != 'table_table') {
        $this->enabled = ((MODULE_PAYMENT_COD_STATUS == 'True') ? true : false);
      } 

This would stop it from showing COD when Table Rate table has been selected as the shipping method ...

[dutchkiwis]

Works fine as a quick fix - thanks heaps!!!

I still believe there is an opportunity for a generic framework controlling allowed payment/shipment options but that is perhaps for another time!