WorldPay Module version 2.0 - Support thread

[shadowknight]

Hi quick Question but for some reason the module doset apear to be showing mastero's even those these are set on i the accepted credi cards in admin any ideas?

[philip_clarke]

Do you mean, "when the person has left the shop and gone to worldpay's site" or "the sidebox doesn't show" ? Because I'd only be dealing with the sidebox things on this side of worldpay.

Thank you
Philip.

[doubletiger]

Hi, philip_clarke

would it be possible for you to add surcharge on this mod? say customers wish to use credit card and want to use worldpay, as soon as the customers select the either visa card or master card, the surcharge will be showed seperate (e.g £0.95 at 2.50%) and also added to the total. Also, there should be place in admin where administartor can add surcharge in percentage term, such as, 3.55% for visa card, 2.50% for master card. Becuase we all know the worldpay is very expensive and this surcharge option will be useful.

thank you very much!

[philip_clarke]

That is a seriously great suggestion.

I won't be able to split it by card unfortunately as worldpay doesn't take that information from the module, but I see no reason why we can't change the text dynamically on the module e.g. Pay by WorldPay (2.5%) surcharge and then the percentage would change dependent on the amount fixed in admin by the shopw owner. It's not going to be a quick fix though, because I'll have to integrate it into the payment total side of things (the bit that give quantity discounts and tots up taxes) so I'll have to do a little rooting around to work out the best way to "fix" it. But yes, that is a very good idea.

Philip.

[philip_clarke]

There is a credit card surcharge module here:

http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?ma...roducts_id=785

What I'll do is check it's compatibility and if necessary release a version that will plugin to the module, or make it "selectable" for worldpay only. Gives me something to do on the cold winter evenings.

Philip.

[philip_clarke]

Right, I've had an in depth look at the credit card surcharge module and I'll have to do an "optional extra" module based on it for worldpay, there's a couple of not so good things about that module, for one thing it's broken with gift voucher's and the author seems to be out of contact (though the fix is posted on the forums wish I'd searched first instead of spent 30 minutes debugging it), anyway what I do not agree with, is that there is no "prior warning" for the extra surcharge, it just pops up if you specify a module to add it to, and it's not really at one with the shop, in the blurb it advertises itself as "discouraging people from paying by certain ways" or something similar and I'd be furious if on the last checkout without any warning, I got nailed for an extra 3%.

Whatever I do will be done by this time next week, I've got to decide whether to bring it into worldpay, or to re-write it to create a more generic module so that one can pick and choose. There is a change I want to make to worldpay anyway, that might go very well with a newer version of a surcharge module.

Philip.

[doubletiger]

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.

[philip_clarke]

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.

[doubletiger]

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.

Just saw this post, I will try it and let you know the result. many thanks!

[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.