Gift Certificates Releasing before I release them.

[shop4itnow]

I just got my gift certificates working and all is great except it will allow them to be used before I actually release them from the admin.

I have shut them off until a fix can be found.

I am running 1.3.5 and have only tried paying with money order/cashiers check.

Help!!

Thanks!

[Ajeh]

Check the Modules ... Order Totals ... and edit the Gift Certificates ot_gv ...

Make sure you have set:

Queue Purchases
true

[Ajeh]

NOTE: Welcome email Gift Certificates are not Queued ... those are available as soon as the customer gets their email for creating an account ...

[shop4itnow]

I do have the queue purchases set, and it is the actual gift certificates not the welcome gift certificates.

Thanks

[Ajeh]

Uninstall and reinstall the Module ... Order Totals ... Gift Certificate ...

Check the database table via phpMyAdmin for:
coupon_gv_queue

Is the field:
release_flag

Set with the default of:
N

[shop4itnow]

Thanks so much!!! I uninstalled and reinstalled the module and it worked perfectly!!

I love the fact that there is support out here for this instead of pulling my hair out over some of this. It has been quite some time since I have dealt with programming and such!

[Ajeh]

Thanks for letting us know that uninstalling and reinstalling the orders total module helps a great deal on the weird and unusual ...

[jerkynet]

I just ran into a variation of this issue. My problem (from what I read above) seems to be by design?

We offer $2 GC to new signups. Had a hacker hit me this afternoon, singed up (rapid speed) 20 new BS customers, then snarfed all the GC$ into another account, placed a zero balance order........

Seems from what I have read, this could easily be solved if we also qued the flavor of GC that these are?

Any help appreciated!

[Kim]

Recommend you use a $2.00 Discount Coupon instead of the Gift Certificate. A couple of advantages, coupons can have restrictions and expiration

[jerkynet]

That was the direction I was heading, but can you explain why this flavor of GC has to be handled differently?

The GC was a nice angle, still allowed the cust to use a coupon on his/her order....as I understand it, they have option for one(1) coupon per order, as well as a GC?

Like I said, I had spotted this liablity/headache early on, but not until today did we get an idiot that wanted to push the point.......

If getting the admin freebie handout GCs into the approve que is a biggy, then i will go with the coupon angle, just wanted to clarify before I flipped things around.
?