Canada payment option: interac email money transfer

In Canada we have soomething called Interac by email.

You go to your bank web site
You fill out a form saying amount to pay, and name/email of person to be paid.
The recipient gets an email, clicks on a link, and after a verification the money is deposited to there account.

Basically, it is something not done on the website. It is bank to bank.

Is there an option for payment methods, to have:
pay later
confirm offsite payment by phone
pay later - before shipped
email interac (create a new option that means it will be paid off the site)

I did see a check/money order option. Can the text on this module be tweaked in order to add email interac? Or, replace check with it?

Or something to this effect?

I am trying to find an option that would cover this. If I can use an existing method, can the name/description be tweaked to show it is for Canadians and it is email interac?

(this is NOT online interac, which is different)

Thanks!

Joseph

You can use offline payment module or similar, small modification and allow to edit name and description.

Thanks for the offline payment module idea.

I only found one called payoffline ipro.

This is for an older versio of zencart.

You have any others?

The module is 12 years old, so likely developer lost interest or abandoned it.

What other modules might you suggest?

Thanks

Joseph

Invoice would be an option.

https://www.zen-cart.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=131

You can change the label to "Interac by email" by editing the language file. You might want to remove the logic that only allows its use by people in the invoice group.

Thanks software guy!

I will look at the language file as you propose.

You speak of th e logic saying that it is only for people in the invoice group. I understand what it is meant to do.

I will look at the code and see if I understand it. I am not a programmer in any sense of th eword, but maybe the code will make sense to me, and I will under stand enough.

I come back and let you know what I find/figure out.

Thanks

I was able to download the module and change the name of the module, I was unable to find the logic that you mention. If I were to guess, maybe it ti under the area of class methods?

I was also thinking that it could be useful to use another logic; Only customers fro Canada will see this option

It goes to say that unless you live in Canada, you might not know the term Email Interac. But, if it could be removed from the list, then this would eliminate any possible confusion.

Thanks

Look at includes/modules/payment/invoice.php lines 50-63. You could remove that or customize it to check the customer's country.

Also maybe someone could add zone support to this module; that would also address your need for Canada-only.

I posted a request for someone to pick up support of this mod.

Thanks for the request to modify this module to fill the need for this canadianniche need.

I did try modifying the code.

I succeeded in changing the language invoice file. But, when modifying the module invoice file, when looking at the payment options page, the options stop listing when getting to the email interac option. It does not display, or anything after it.

I am sure that it is due to me not removing the right lines. Here is what I removed:

customers_id = '" . (int)$_SESSION['customer_id'] . "'");
if ($this->enabled == true) {
$check_flag_group = false;
$check = $db->Execute("select group_name from " . TABLE_GROUP_PRICING . " where group_id = '" . $group_query->fields['customers_group_pricing'] . "'");
if ($check->RecordCount() == 1) {
$invoice_prefix = "invoice";
$check_prefix = substr($check->fields['group_name'], 0, strlen($invoice_prefix));
if (strcasecmp($check_prefix, $invoice_prefix) == 0) {
$check_flag_group = true;
}
}
if ($check_flag_group == false) {
$this->enabled = false;
}

I counted the lined 50-63.

Which extra lines, or not enough lines did I remove?

Thanks

Joseph

You could probably just use the built-in moneyorder module. In its admin settings there's a spot to enter the contact information for the storeowner for sending the money to. You could put your e-transfer instructions in there, and maybe just edit the language file so you call it "E-Transfer, Cheque, or Money Order", or whatever suits you.

Hello Dr Byte

Thanks for the idea. Activating the money order module works well.

It seems to work when setting things up.

I will see how it works when running a few test transactions.

Thanks

Joseph