Delivery date

[McKaulick]

My store sells brown bags, customers should be able to add the delivery date and delivery time they want to receive the brown bags. If they insert today's date, a message should say "We might not have what you want, call us to verify before ordering."

Is this possible with zen-cart to have this?

Thank you!

McKaulick

[brandtim]

Easy enough ... you could simply use the existing 'Comments' field in the order, replace the textarea with a JS-based date selector, and perform a simple date calculation on submission... the only drawback would be that you'd be requiring JS to checkout.

BrandTim

[McKaulick]

Hmm, but I do need the note field though, is there another way?

Thanks for your reply.

McKaulick

[brandtim]

In that case, you could basically just clone the comment field. You'd need to add a field to the order table of the database, edit the template files for the checkout to add the delivery date drop-down, edit the order files for the admin to show it, and edit the email templates that get sent out .... basically, anywhere in the code that the comments field shows up, just add the delivery date option right next to it.

BrandTim

[McKaulick]

Thank you for your answer again,

Now for the payment instead of real-time, I saw I can use the manual credit card payment gateway. So user enter is CC info, but I will be the one processing the credit card when I will be ready. The point here is that a company will order sandwiches online for the next day, but then before I deliver the food, they call sometimes and want to add things in the order can I log in and add things myself in a customer's order and we well know it's all good then I will process the CC. Is this possible?

Thanks.

McKaulick

[FuzzyBunny]

I am wondering if the same java app as is used in the admin area to select start and end dates for specials, featured products, etc can be used in the check out process to select the delivery date?
The app is already in zencart, so may be easy to adapt to the checkout with the result being sent to an extra field in the database?

Any one have an idea of whether this can be done and how?

Thanks for any ideas.

[brandtim]

McKaulick,

Yes. You will need the Edit Order mod to be able to edit the orders from the admin.

There are two ways to handle the delay in charging the customer's credit card. First, you can - as you mention - simply process the credit cards manually whenever you want to. This will require that you use a POS machine or on-line software for the processing (your merchant services provider will provide you with these). Alternately, you can build (or potentially modify) a module to provide you with a one-click 'charge cc' button on each order.



FuzzyBunny,

Java app in the admin? Hmmm... don't recall one of those. I think perhaps you mean JavaScript app?

Yes - any calendar app will work. Although, the admin and the catalog are almost two separate pieces of software, so it's not really important whether the code you use is in the ZC package or not. The catalog doesn't even know the file system location of the admin, so you'd need to place whatever you use within the catalog directory tree.

In order to accomplish this, you'd need to...

add a field to the order table of the database, edit the template files for the checkout to add the delivery date drop-down, edit the order files for the admin to show it, and edit the email templates that get sent out .... basically, anywhere in the code that the comments field shows up, just add the delivery date option right next to it.

BrandTim