Can somoene help with an authorize.net question

Hello,

I own an online rentals company. When a customer places an order I charge 50% of their total as a deposit. The balance is then billed once their order ships (usually 3 days prior to their event). How would I set this up in zencart if I use authorize.net?

Am I able to do this?

Thanks

Hello,

I own a linen rental website. At checkout I need to only collect 50% of the balance form the customer. Is there a way to subtract 50% from the total without having to having the customer have to apply a coupon?

I would LOVE it if someone could show me how to do it like this:

Subtotal $100.00
Tax $50.00
Shipping $50.00

Total Deposit Amount Required: $100.00

Is this possible?

Here's a couple of ideas. Not sure whether they will suit you...

1. use group pricing with a 50% group discount and add all your customers to that group. Hmmmm...

2. Use the 'Sale' feature of Zen Cart. have a permanent 'sale of 50% for the whole store. Change all the wording of 'sale' to 'deposit' so that full price is displayed and 'deposit' is displayed ( instead of full price and sale price ). Then put in a big clear message on the shopping cart that what is being charged is just the deposit. This might work.

Just ideas...

Idea #2 sounds like a good approach which would cover the bases for you.
You could always use CSS to hide some of the "deposit" price/text if you don't want to show it everywhere (like product listings).

PERFECT!!! Idea number 2 works great for me,

Thanks

okay, one last question. I added this code ```php
$group_query = $db->Execute("select customers_group_pricing from " . TABLE_CUSTOMERS . " where customers_id = '" . (int)$_SESSION['customer_id'] . "'");
$group_discount = $db->Execute("select group_name from " . TABLE_GROUP_PRICING . " where group_id = '" . (int)$group_query->fields['customers_group_pricing'] . "'");

		$this->output[] = array('title' => $this->title . ' - ' . $group_discount->fields['group_name'] . ':',
		'text' => '-' . $currencies->format($od_amount['total'], true, $order->info['currency'], $order->info['currency_value']), 'value' => $od_amount['total']);

Right. Well, a bit more context would help. Like where you have added that code :-)

But I suspect that if you delete the bits in red it might work for you:

            $this->output[] = array('title' => $this->title . ' - ' . $group_discount->fields['group_name'] . ':',
            'text' => '-' . $currencies->format($od_amount['total'], true, $order->info['currency'], $order->info['currency_value']), 'value' => $od_amount['total']);  

I use authorize.net. I'm still in the testing stages on my zencart store but I have a question regarding authorize and capture.

I own a rental company. Customer will use our zencart site to place orders for rental items. I would like to authorize their card for the full amount however only capture 50% of the money.

The flip side is I don't want to keep the authorization on their card for too long since most of our orders are for large amounts and the actual capture won't be done for 2-3 months later.

Am I able to authorize the full amount but then go in and only capture 50% then before the order ships capture the other 50%?

Any help on this at al would be GREAT!

Pnkgirl25:

I use authorize.net. I'm still in the testing stages on my zencart store but I have a question regarding authorize and capture.

I own a rental company. Customer will use our zencart site to place orders for rental items. I would like to authorize their card for the full amount however only capture 50% of the money.

The flip side is I don't want to keep the authorization on their card for too long since most of our orders are for large amounts and the actual capture won't be done for 2-3 months later.

Am I able to authorize the full amount but then go in and only capture 50% then before the order ships capture the other 50%?

Any help on this at al would be GREAT!Some variation of this might be the answer:
https://www.zen-cart.com/tutorials/index.php?article=164