Receive partial payment upon order

[petek]

Hi,

The title says it all. I sell relatively expensive products which cannot be delivered until about two months after the order. So, I can only receive a deposit of, say, 30% of the total when the order is placed and receive the rest when the goods are despatched. Can this be done with Paypal ?

Cheers

Pete

[Chrome Orange]

paypal can do recurring payments but I'm not sure how you would do it through zen unless the newer paypal modules can cope with it

[misty]

You could set up a product...price it by attributes
i.e.
Deposit 1
Deposit 2
Deposit 3
ZenCart does not currently have paypal recurring
payment option though there is a mod that enables part payment
for credit cards
http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?ma...roducts_id=588
HTH

[petek]

You could set up a product...price it by attributes
i.e.
Deposit 1
Deposit 2
Deposit 3
ZenCart does not currently have paypal recurring
payment option though there is a mod that enables part payment
for credit cards
http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?ma...roducts_id=588
HTH

Yes, this could be the answer. I am thinking of using the basic Business account + IPN + payments by email. This would allow me to *grab* 30% when the goods are ordered and then ask the customer to settle the rest when the goods are ready. At the moment, on my (not Zen Cart) site, I use the French banks system which allows me to debit my clients although I don't see their credit card details. This is ok in that I can initiate the debit myself but its a (major) pain to set up.

Cheers

Pete

[petek]

Hi,

I've looked eveywhere for this and there doesn't appear to be a simple solution. I'm currently looking at Paypal as the payment method. It appears to work well. However, I only want to send to Paypal 30% of the amount of the order when the total amount of the order exceeds €200. This is what I have on my existing - Interakt - site and this was achieved by modifying the PHP code in the checkout payment method page. The code was/is :

echo ' <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="';
if($row_rs[$kartProps['Korders']['orders']['amount']] > 200) {
echo str_replace('.', '', number_format(transformPrice($row_rs[$kartProps['Korders']['orders']['amount']
]*0.30, etc, etc.

Surely this can be done in Zen Cart ?

Cheers

Pete

[petek]

Hi,

I've looked everywhere for this and apparently it doesn't exist in Zen Cart : all I want is to be able to bill clients who order on my site 30% of the order total. So Paypal receives a debit for 30% and the remaining 70% I ask the customer to pay by email within Paypal's site. I cannot by law bill my clients 100% of the amount due. This appears to be so simple I wonder why it doesn't already exist !

Pete

[swguy]

One solution: use the invoice contribution, then send them a paypal invoice for 30% when you get an order.

[DrByte]

If *ALL* you want to do to Zen Cart is have it collect *ONLY* 30% of the order total, you can make a similar code-edit in your PayPal module as you did in your other module.

That will cause Zen Cart to only ask PayPal for the single 30% payment.

It will not ever collect the remaining 70%.
It will likely throw your order details off kilter though.
And will prevent IPNs from working properly, since the transaction amount will never match the order amount.

[DrByte]

You could instead hire someone to write a discount order-total module that discounts 70% off the order amount, and describes the discount as "To Be Paid Later", and then sends the remaining amount to be paid immediately via PayPal.

[petek]

I'll have a look at the invoice module and see whether that could de the trick. I'll have to have another look at the Paypal module to see where I can limit the initial payment to 30%. I couldn't see it when I first looked (and I'm not at the office today). Zen Cart Admin doesn't have to manage the rest of the payments - my existing site doesn't either - and, unless I've not understood, I can use Paypal's email payment facility to ask the customer to pay the remaining 70% when the goods are ready to be despatched.

Cheers

Pete