How do I create a module for partial payments ?.. means like client can pay Full or "50% now and 50% later". He should have the option at the time of checkout. Invoice will be created for the full amount but payment only 50%
How do i do that?
it should be possible and there is more than one way to do it.
I can suggest you the following solution for instance:
In case you are using a payment provider, you should modify its module in some way in order to take in account the 50% payment. For instance, an extra payment option should be created.
The remaining 50% should be persisted along with the order (custom order attribute)
However, keep in mind that in Magento, an order can only have 1 payment method.
Magento doesn't do this out of the box.Implementing this is a lot of work, because you have to pay attention to a lot of things.For this one I would advice to look at the already existing extensions. First of all because since it's such a tricky thing to build yourself better get something that has been proven to work and second because they're not that expensive. Probably the hours you'll spent on building itself won't weigh up to the cost of the extension.
Milople offer an extension for this where it is possible to pay Full or "50% now and 50% later".
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I have small food store. I'm working on an app that will allow my customers to download the app, keep up with events, etc., but most importantly, order from my app menu ahead of time, take their CC payment ahead of time and I have their order waiting for them when they walk in. I want the purchase to now show up in my Square system so I can get started on the order and I would like to use Square POS to take and process the order so I don't have to keep up with two POS systems. This does not seem possible with Square? Suggestions, idea, help?
To my knowledge, that isn't currently possible with any of the available Square APIs. The best you can do is probably to set up a Square online store and allow users to make purchases from your site. Masala Wok is a good example of what this looks like.
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I want to know what is this format called so that I know how to deal with it?
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It is a PHP serialized object, i.e. an object serialized with serialize() function: http://php.net/manual/en/function.serialize.php
For instance (from the manual):
class A {
public $one = 1;
public function show_one() {
echo $this->one;
}
}
$a = new A;
$s = serialize($a);
file_put_contents('store', $s);
Gives:
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You can use deserialize($sVarwiththeSerializedData) to revert it to the original state .
in our website www.theprinterdepo.com we are going to implement google checkout. However I am not sure in what shipping methods or strategy to use.
In this page:
https://developers.google.com/checkout/developer/Google_Checkout_XML_API_Carrier_Calculated_Shipping#Process
Google says that they calculate based on the total weight of the items, but the thing is if one person buys one printer thats fine, but if he orders 3 printers of 50lbs, the shipping cost is invalid calculating it with 150lbs. It has to be calculated as 3 packages of 50lbs.
How would you do it in this scenario??
I have only had minimal investigation to this, but I don't think this can be handled by default installation. I know that you would need a shipping extension that can support the Google API shipping-packages, but real issue is that not even the Google API can support more than one package, either by API limitation or restriction by choice.
The <shipping-packages> tag encapsulates information about
all of the packages that will be shipped to the buyer.
At this time, merchants may only specify one package per order
I would love to see this come to full use as it would be a great addition to be able to say that anything with a weight over x requires additional packaging but currently I don't think it is possible. While this can be accomplished by separating the order into three orders, but that will over complicate the user experience and possible cause loss of sales.
Source:
https://developers.google.com/checkout/developer/Google_Checkout_XML_API_Carrier_Calculated_Shipping#tag_shipping-packages
The "limitation" mentioned above is only if you will rely on Google to calculate shipping for you using what they call carrier-calculated-shipping.
You do have other options to calculate shipping:
you can pre-calculate using whatever formula (or shipping service/plugin) you have based on the cart contents (you would know this prior to handing off the cart to Google for Checkout), which is essentially sending a flat rate shipping cost to Google, or perhaps;
use the merchant-calculations-api option so you can account for the destination/delivery address (not just cart contents). This option is more complex (you need to handle callbacks from Google), but it does give you critical information to work with when calculating shipping.
hth....
How can I print a packing slip before the order status is "complete" (i.e. before I submit a shipment?)
The current workflow is a bit backwards, especially if you are using the packing slip as a pick list in the warehouse.
Extra: A solution that is upgrade friendly.
Thanks.
http://www.magentocommerce.com/wiki/5_-_modules_and_development/orders/automatic_picklist_printing_with_check_for_order_payment
Get a paid for module if time is money, otherwise muddle through the above link or write your own module. Observe order creation and send an email of the order may be one way to go if you want it customised with attributes not on the normal order email. Otherwise, cc new orders to an account, print them out and take them down the warehouse.
I have spent hours searching the internet for a solution to this problem and finally used
'Print Packingslips (pre shipped)'.
It prints your packingslips/pick lists with any order status. Works perfectly and is the cheapest module I can find.
http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/print-packing-slips-pre-shipped.html
Here's one that does the same thing, slightly cheaper:
http://www.reddotdevelopment.com/store/magento-order-picklist-extension.html
I haven't bothered to purchase any of these extensions to see how they've implemented the ability to print before shipping, but I've been able to do it myself pretty easily.
Seems there just isn't Admin UI around all of them, but it turns out there are a numerous models that support a getPdf method.
Creditmemo
Invoice
Shipment
Packaging
The difference between calling getPdf on Invoice instead of Shipment is there is no tracking info on the PDF.
You don't need third party add-ons for this. You can just click "Submit Shipment" before you have actually packed it and you will be OK.
You can then print the packing slip, pack it up and actually ship it.
Then you can add the tracking number and send the customer email afterwards by clicking the "Send Tracking Information" button.
That's how I do it.
I would really appreciate your help with finding out how long it takes a 1-3 year experenced programmer to convert a few HTML pages into joomla 1.5 dynamic pages. I know that some of it depends on how complex the pages are but i'm talking about average pages. That's my first question, my other question is how long will it take a 1-3 year experenced programmer to install all of these componants: Video module, photo gallery module, vertuemart shopping cart. I pay programmers to do this work but i have to make as sure as i can that i'm not over paying them. Thanks in advance for answering these two questions...George
Depends on complexity and quality of html/css design. Usually 1+ hours, if you want additional modules styled( K2, etc..) you need to add extra time, if style is different for every page, than it take more, plus configuration. Basically conversion is not that difficult, just replace main text with content and add some blocks/regions. I would say average about 8 hours
As already mentioned, it depends... there's not really anywhere near enough info to give even a rough estimate.
Is Joomla already installed? If it is installed and the desired template is in place, then cutting-and-pasting some page content can take a few minutes if it's just text. If not, allow 2-3 hours for basic installation, including debugging and testing of the standard components like sending email. Then another 1-2 hours for basic installation of components. Testing, debugging and setup of Virtuemart can take a lot longer, depending on what options for shipping and payments you want.
If you're using a good pre-built template that you're 100% happy with then there should be little to do there, but just positioning and adding discovering what menus work best in which module positions can take a lot of time. Often there is no support in a template for particular components so further styling for the additions is required. Purchased templates vary wildly in quality, some are just not worth the effort, and sometimes template developers take quick-and-dirty shortcuts to get components to look good in their demo, but can take hours to sort out to be useful for anything else.
If you want the Joomla site to look like your old site, or have a custom template built, or radically convert an existing template it can take the length of a piece of string. (One of my clients will easily spend 20 hours endlessly asking me to slightly change spacing, fonts, and colors after signing off on a design and promising that he wouldn't make any more changes. I guess because he can't visualize how things look until he sees the completed site.)
There are plenty of good photo galleries that are bug-free. That shouldn't take long, especially if it comes with a template you already like.
So you may be wondering why all the estimates above vary so much. It just depends on what you've got and what you are really looking for, and what experience the "programmer" has, if it is even in Joomla, or some other CMS, or PHP, or whatever.
Step one in a project like this is to find a programmer you trust not to rip you off; get reliable references if it's someone new. Then get as good an estimate from him or her as he can give, bearing in mind he might have no experience of how you work or how detailed you've been in laying out the plan. Getting an estimate from someone else is not worth much. Then get progress reports as you go along to see where the hours are going so you can judge how to proceed cost-effectively.
is hard to answer at your Q's, the info providet by you is insuficient to make an estimation.
You didn't mentioned anything about customization, complexity of functionalities, integration of those component. Also the time frame depend on the programmer experience and knowledge in Joomla! not just Html knowledge.
Usually, to install some component is easy, lets say for the components you mentioned i need something like 6-8 h, but this is just the installation process. From here to a good joomla! website is a long way. The more time consuming is the customization and integration of all the functionalities, and this depend on clients requests.
You mentioned Virtuemart, this also can be a bottle neck, Virtuemart installation depend on the shop categories and products no., shipping integration, payment method, images processing,
Other Issue can be the template integration, for a good website is better to have the same look on all the components, VM, Photo gallery etc Your template is acquired one or is a custom development?
But to answer at your Q 1,
1) 5 to 10 pages should take 2-4h (text edit, custom typography)
2) 40 to 80h for Video module, photo gallery module, Virtuemart shopping chart
Keep in mind that is just a rough estimation.
Roland
In my opinion, it should take no more than 2-3 hours with minimal configuration included. The only thing that would need more time than this is the video component. Configuration of these components should make the time vary.