Purchase Order Basic

Check for the new version which allows admins to select which customers have the option to submit purchase orders

Hi just checking but it doesn't seem that the newest version is up yet, cheers.:unsure:

Yea I am waiting for it to be approved, should be shortly. They do a great job to make sure there is no spam, and they say it is a couple of times a week that they check submissions.

Until the module is approved, you can find the latest module on my website.
http://www.berksdesigns.com

Mike,
Thanks so much for creating this module. I have a client waiting for it. One gotcha that I found for my needs is that the client also has Group Pricing Per Item module installed. It will also require us to use a group naming system. I'm thinking I can name those PO_Group1, PO_Group2, etc. I'm just wondering if your module just passing the pricing task on or does it have some pricing tasks that will mess up the Group Pricing module.

Any thoughts on that?

Thanks again for the work you put into this.

Jim

You could alter it using the suggestions I posted earlier, to allow for multiple groups.

I did test this using multiple groups...
Even with pricing discounts.

I did not test it with any other 3rd party modules.

Essentially the module is looking for "PO_" in group options.
You could name them anything you like as long as the beginning starts with "PO_"

Hello everyone, I was wondering if there was a way to enable PO's for all registered customers by default? Instead of going back after they register to enable them individually.

This is for an aftermarket parts store from an equipment manufacturer for their dealerships and is behind a password wall to keep out the general public.

Any thoughts would be appreciated!

If it's to be available for everyone then just enable the module, and don't assign any restrictions to it. That way every customer will have access to it.

Well hello again Dr. Byte!

I'm not sure I follow how to do that unfortunately. When I go into the PO module (http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?main_page=product_contrib_info&products_id=2058) I don't have anyone excluded (see attached).

I'm assuming there is another area to configure this?

That option was not added to the module.

Will take a short amount of time, but I think this would be a viable inclusion.

Is there a way to make this available to all customers, rather than having to pre-approve?

Select the prior version. The latest version added code to check for the customer to belong to a group_pricing. There were no other changes to the code

This module seems like exactly what I need, unfortunately I can't get it working.

1. I install the files.
2. In Admin->Modules->Shipping I install the module.
3. I create a test customer.
4. I create a new group in Admin->Customers->Group Pricing.
5. I assign the pricing group to the customer.
6. Then I login as the test customer and add a product to the cart and go to checkout.
   On the shipping page there is no option to select purchase order.

Any idea what is going wrong here?

I can now answer my own question: I didn't use the "PO_" prefix in "Admin -> Customers -> Group Pricing"

I can't seem to get this to work. I'm using Zen Cart 1.5 and version 1.0c of the Purchase Order module as I want it available to all customers. It show and is activated under payments, but I can't get it to show as a payment option when a customer checks out. Any ideas?

Thanks,
Andy

It appear that the Purchase Order module only works for physical items, but I need it to work with virtual (downloadable) items. Anyone know how I can make it work?

abprice:

I can't seem to get this to work. I'm using Zen Cart 1.5 and version 1.0c of the Purchase Order module as I want it available to all customers. It show and is activated under payments, but I can't get it to show as a payment option when a customer checks out. Any ideas?

Thanks,
Andy

I do not collect any payment information in my store but I needed to collect PO Numbers.

After I installed Purchase Order Basic I was getting radio buttons which I did not want.
(Doing what it was supposed to do)
The reason for if was I also had "Money Order" turned on as a payment. )
I removed money order and Walla no more radio buttons.
Now I have PO input capability.

NOTE: For my purposes I did have to change includes/languages/English/modules/payment/purchaseorders.php line 22 to: define('MODULE_PAYMENT_PURCHASEORDER_TEXT_TITLE', '');
(Removed verbiage)
AND
Also /includes/modules/payment/purchaseorders.php Line 122 to: $order->info['payment_method'] .= . $_POST['po_number']; (removed ':')

The verbiage and colon were becoming part of the PO Number. I'm thinking that verbiage and colon need to be coded as a Label.
However with my above mod on the orders screen just the PO Number is shown with no label.
That verbiage and colon along with the PO number were also being exported with/in "Export Shipping+Order Information" which was messing me up when I imported that data into Quick Books.

linuxguy2:

The verbiage and colon were becoming part of the PO Number. I'm thinking that verbiage and colon need to be coded as a Label.
Thinking that the module should be FLEXIBLE and allow the shopowner to decide if they want the text and colon as part of their P.O. #

Seems to me if you are suggesting a feature change that this would be a better direction than simply just making it a label..

DivaVocals:

Thinking that the module should be FLEXIBLE and allow the shopowner to decide if they want the text and colon as part of their P.O. #

Seems to me if you are suggesting a feature change that this would be a better direction than simply just making it a label..

Hadn't given it much thought as I needed to get this working yesterday. Thought I'd pursue it further today. I posted that info in the Purchase Order Basic forum.
Apparently it was put there for a reason but I don't really see why you'd want any extraneous verbiage mixed in with a PO number......