Admin Simple Create Order [Support Thread]

[jpietrowiak]

Hi,
I have read alot of posts saying create orders is not needed and is out of date. But for the life of me I cannot figure out how to do the following since I was originally using create orders before upgrading to 3.0 for edit and super.

With create orders I was able to create an order with a combination of both store items as well as products that are NOT IN THE STORE (my main problem). How would I create an order without the mod that I can add items not within Zencart and manually put prices and descriptions for each line item in them. Then process an order.

The login as customer works fine if everything is in the store. Its items that I would like to sell the customer that are not in the store that is the problem. I need to add the description cost ect even if I put it to a blanket single product and just edit them with edit orders after I place the order. But I do not want them notified until after the order is placed and fully complete after editing to add nonstore items.

Please let me know your thoughts on how to acomplish this as I have searched hi and low for a solution that create orders seemed to work ok for (granted I have no clue what it does on the back end and it looks like it had problems from many posts). I am not a coder by any means so I have no way of writing code or modules. Just looking for a solution.

Thanks

[jpietrowiak]

Let me clarify what I need to do-(since simple orders no longer works).

• Create an order (blank or with catalog products in it) that does NOT send to customer.

From here I can do the rest. Meaning add a "misc product" to catalog. Then edit the description of it and price to make it a non catalog item. Then send invoice for both not in store and store products.

[jpietrowiak]

Let me clarify what I need to do-(since simple orders no longer works).

• Create an order (blank or with catalog products in it) that does NOT send to customer.

From here I can do the rest. Meaning add a "misc product" to catalog. Then edit the description of it and price to make it a non catalog item. Then send invoice for both not in store and store products.

Anyone have any ideas how to do this??

[stesouthby]

can any one tell me how to remove this module i forgot to back up my zencart before installing stupid mistake

[DarkEmotions]

can any one tell me how to remove this module i forgot to back up my zencart before installing stupid mistake

Just remove the extra files included, then for any core files the mod has changed, as long as they haven't been modified before, just download the same version of zen cart, upload the files that have been over written and hopefully this should be ok, everything depends on how much access you have. If you need any more help with this, please ask :)

[DivaVocals]

Hi i was wondering if i could get your copy of the simple create order. I have ivan's version but its for an older version of zen cart i have the current 1.39h and whne i go to add a product under create order the page goes blank also it wont let me delete any of the orders.

Hope you don't mind.. I'm posting my answer here so that the entire community can benefit from the question and the answer..

I don't have a new version of this at all.. The issue you have has everything to do with the OLD version of Edit Orders included in with this monstrosity.. and as I have posted about in this thread, unless and when this module is COMPLETELY re-written to correctly manage a manual order process in Zen Cart I don't advocate this module at all. (for reasons which I outline in EXCRUCIATING detail here in this support thread)

I also outlined a suggested process for a more fully flushed out manual order process which does NOT include ANY part of this mod at all..

[simondale123]

I want to use Create Order to create credit notes (IE invoices with negative values) to reverse items ordered and then cancelled on previous invoices. This is so that when I export my orders to Sage everything balances.

The process I would follow:

Customer orders 3 items. Then he realises 1 item is a mistake and wants to cancel it.

Using Edit Orders I would edit the order to say "*CANCELLED*" in front of the line item in question and "*CANCELLED*" in the product code. I would not delete the item nor change the price because this would no longer match with the payment received (this causing a headache for my accountant).

I would then create a new order with Create Order, choose the same customer, add the same product but put a - in front of the price. I would then issue a refund for that amount through Paypal.

The result would, I think, be an order with a matching payment for the full amount and a credit note, with a matching refund in Sage. This all seems to work on my v1.3.8 test server but obviously not on my recently upgraded v1.3.9 live server.

Does anyone know of an alternative way of doing what I'm trying to achieve?

Thanks

Simon