Invoice Generation without a hardcoded product?

[shls1]

Hi! We just had our hosting service install ZenCart 1.3.8a for us about a month ago, and I am trying to set it up according to what my employers want. Besides offering products with hard coded prices, they want customers to be able to pay on-line for services they received outside of ZenCart.

For example, someone walks in the door and orders business cards, at non-standard pricing that is not listed as a ZenCart product. We want them to be able to just log into a computer, into ZenCart, and enter their credit card information to pay for the services on the spot.

I have been trying to figure out how I might do this. My employers don't want to use PayPal to generate an invoice. I know this can be done, I have done it myself, no problem there.

Can I possibly generate a one-time custom invoice in ZenCart, for the customer to pay by, either at their site or ours? Would I have to create a new product every time? I would not want the new "one time" product to show on our product pages, either.

Thanks for any information you can give.

[stevesh]

I can think of a way to do it, but the invoice the customer received wouldn't contain the product name or description.

Do you offer so many services that you couldn't create a product for each one, hidden until needed?

[shls1]

The problem is, we are a print shop, and many times, we charge by number of mailing list records processed, in addition to other more standard charges. So, every job is different. We could do the same job for a specific business every month, and every month, it is a different charge based on the number of records processed.

We would have to almost create a specific customer product, hide it, and modify the pricing of that product each time a job is complete. Then we would have to expose the product, to the world, until the specific customer makes payment. Then, we would have to quickly hide the product again. This just seems too complex, and open to errors. Our sales reps are not terribly technical, and I could see them balking at an arrangement like this.

Is there a way to create a specially priced product, by customer, where only a specific customer can view that product at any point in time?

I still like the idea of generating a 1 time custom invoice, like you can do in PayPal, but I am not seeing it in ZenCart.

I am open to suggestions and ideas. Thanks!

[shls1]

I can think of a way to do it, but the invoice the customer received wouldn't contain the product name or description.

What is the way you were thinking of above? It may serve as a last resort. Thanks for any info you can give.

[shls1]

Hi! We just had our hosting service install ZenCart 1.3.8a for us about a month ago, and I am trying to set it up according to what my employers want. Besides offering products with hard coded prices, they want customers to be able to pay on-line for services they received outside of ZenCart.

For example, someone walks in the door and orders business cards, at non-standard pricing that is not listed as a ZenCart product. We want them to be able to just log into a computer, into ZenCart, and enter their credit card information to pay for the services on the spot.

I have been trying to figure out how I might do this. My employers don't want to use PayPal to generate an invoice. I know this can be done, I have done it myself, no problem there.

Can I possibly generate a one-time custom invoice in ZenCart, for the customer to pay by, either at their site or ours? Would I have to create a new product every time? I would not want the new "one time" product to show on our product pages, either.

Thanks for any information you can give.

[DrByte]

1. Your duplicate posts have been merged. Please don't re-start the same discussion in multiple places, as it results in unfinished discussions and more work for volunteers giving free tech support.

2. Why not just set up at $1.00 product and tell the customer to enter an appropriate quantity suitable to the purchase price, and then go to checkout. ie: a $35.81 purchase would mean quantity of 35.81, and then complete checkout by paying with their credit card. They could type in customer comments such as the invoice number you emailed to them and perhaps the details of what they believe they're paying for.
A similar process is commonly used for gift-certificates or for donations.

[shls1]

My apologies for the duplicate post... Thanks for answering...

I thought of doing what you just said, and a while back I mentioned it to my manager. He did not like it, because we did not realize you could enter quantities to a decimal place. We thought you needed whole number quantities. I tried entering a decimal quantity and I get this error message:

The quantity added to your cart has been adjusted. The item you wanted is not available in fractional quantities. The quantity of item: A-8-A Labels, has been changed from: 1.25 to 1

I am guessing there must be a way to have a product accept decimal quantities, where do I need to make the proper adjustments to properly process the decimal places?

Thanks again,
Andrea

[Ajeh]

In the Configuration ... Stock ... there is a setting for the Decimal Places on quantity ...

Product Quantity Decimals
Allow how many decimals on Quantity

Then, on the Products you can control the Minimum and Units if needed ...

[shls1]

Thanks! That worked for the quantity; now... how do I change the screen displays to accomodate this update without the display changes affecting my other products display? ie., remove "amount", "min" and units from displaying? Change column headers?

I am looking, but not finding my answer... thanks for any information you can give.

-AK

[Ajeh]

Do you have an URL and the click for click to produce and show what it is you want to actually remove?