Adding Customer To Groups. Please HELP!!

[Pnkgirl25]

Hello,

I have a linen rental zencart store. (http://www.kennedycouture.com). I require my customers to pay 50% of their order at booking as a deposit and the balance when their order ships. I have figured out a work around for only taking 50% of their payment as oppose to billing them 100% by using the groups feature.

What I have done is created a group titled "Deposit" so everyone's order is marked down 50% and I collect the deposit that way. I have now run into a big problem as I can't figure out how to automatically add all my customers to that group automatically when they sign up.

I thought about using the site wide sale feature however I don't like the original price being crossed out with the sale price or in my case "deposit" amount next to it.

Is there anyway to automatically add customers to a group when they sign up so I wont have to do it manually or can someone suggest a better idea?

I use Authorize.net as my payment gateway and don't want to authorize 100% of the funds upfront.
Thanks

[tino.schlegel]

This thread discusses the same problem.

THe easiest is to "Use the 'Sale' feature of Zen Cart. have a permanent 'sale of 50% for the whole store. Change all the wording of 'sale' to 'deposit' so that full price is displayed and 'deposit' is displayed ( instead of full price and sale price ). Then put in a big clear message on the shopping cart that what is being charged is just the deposit. This might work."