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July 4, 2016 at 9:15 am

Hi Sue,

Whilst it is possible to do this EE doesn’t have a user interface that allows you (the admin) to quickly select the payment methods available on event but not another.

We have the Payment Methods Pro add-on that allows you to set payment methods to be ‘Admin Only’ payment methods (they appear within the admin but not on the front end) and then set a specific meta value within the event tell EE to display that payment method.

The problem with the above for your use case is that if you want Cash for specific events and CHQ for others you’ll need to set BOTH to admin only, then setup each event to tell EE if it should display the CHQ or Cash payment method (it won’t display either by default).

So before going into further details would that work?

July 5, 2016 at 7:03 am

It’s currently a free add-on.

We have some documentation to set this up here:

https://eventespresso.com/wiki/payment-methods-pro-add-on/

You will also find links to download the add-on there.

July 5, 2016 at 8:38 am

How did you assign it to the event?

Are all of your payment methods now set to be admin only? So that when you add the name of the payment method within the event it tells EE to display that payment method on the front end.

July 5, 2016 at 9:24 am

Tony i assigned it to the event per the details on the link you sent me

So if you view another event, does it not display that payment method? It should only display on Events you have set to show it on.

payment methods admin only – how to check this please?

Your CHQ and Invoice payment methods should have the ‘Front-end Registration Page’ checkbox unchecked on both of the payment methods.

So go to Event Espresso -> Payment Methods -> Invoice (that’s the payment method you are using for Cash correct?)

Un-check that check box and save the payment method.

Now view an event (NOT the event you have setup to use that payment method), it doesn’t display correct?

View the event you DID setup to use that payment method, does it display?

If so the payment method pro add-on is working as expected. Once that’s has been confirmed we can move onto the next step.

July 6, 2016 at 2:15 am

If you offer PayPal for all of your events you don’t need to set that as admin only, but if you only want that for select events too then yes you would need to do the same for all 3.

Basically any payment method that you want for select events needs to be set to Admin only and then within the event your assign the payment method to the event.

July 6, 2016 at 3:40 am

Not without custom development, the payment methods pro add-on is the only way to selectively show payment methods on certain events at this time.

One option is to leave the CHQ payment method available for all and use the Payment methods pro add-on to show the Cash payment method only on select events. That way the only events you need to update are the events that show the Cash payment method (in this case, one event)

July 6, 2016 at 8:03 am

Hmm, I’ve not seen that before.

Can you link me to the event so I can take a look please?

July 7, 2016 at 10:27 am

Hi Sue,

Apologies for the delay, I spent some time looking this and the only way I could reproduce was to call another payment method using the meta data, like this – http://take.ms/fo5Bx

That additional ‘PayPal’ value add another PayPal payment method on checkout – http://take.ms/0lH7A

Which values for ‘include_payment_method’ do you have set on that event?

July 8, 2016 at 6:21 am

Yes, but what is the exactly value you have set? ‘PayPal’?

Change that to ‘paypal_standard’, does it make any difference?

July 8, 2016 at 10:01 am

You can try this feature branch of the Payment Methods Pro add-on instead:

https://github.com/eventespresso/eea-payment-methods-pro/tree/FET-9102-payment-methods-metabox-on-event-editing-page

It adds a box to the event editor that makes it easier to select the payment method for the event.