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Kristi Stewart
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January 17, 2014 at 11:23 am
This may be a very bizarre request, but I have been unable to find a solution or answer.
We offer two types of events Company Sponsored Events and Distributor Sponsored Events.
For our Company Sponsored events we would like to use the full range of options and process payments within our site etc. This is all working perfectly.
For our Distributor Sponsored events, we would like to show the Event details, and capture their contact information so it can be forwarded to the Distributor so they may finalize their payment processing. Is there a way to have the price in the system with out it asking for credit card details? We would still like the system to send registration emails to the attendee as well as us the organizer, that we can sort and forward when they register for the event.
Any help or insight you may provide is greatly appreciated.
Thank You
Kristi
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Garth
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January 19, 2014 at 9:31 pm
Hmmm…
Well, the first idea that comes to mind is to use an off-line gateway like PO or Invoice where they are instructed to contact the distributor for payment.
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Kristi Stewart
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January 20, 2014 at 11:02 am
any additional instructions you can provide for the off-line gateway option? and can this be used in tandem for those we want to go ahead and process their payment online.
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Dean
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January 21, 2014 at 4:28 am
Hi,
Yes it can be used in tandem. Basically it will involve activating one of the offline gateways: Invoice or Check/Money Order are probably the best candidates.
Then you would need to modify the settings of the selected gateway. I would for instance change the Title to read something like “Distributors click here”.
They can then click the Finalise the registration link and it will add them to the database and send emails etc as per your settings (they will be marked as Incomplete, so check your event/General Settings for email notifications).
If needed you could modify the gateway template file to remove unwanted info such as Address to send payment, or you could utilise those fields but use the language files to change what they are requesting, e.g. Address to Send Payment could be changed to “Name and contact details of your manager” or whatever is appropriate for your site.
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Kristi Stewart
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January 21, 2014 at 6:38 pm
is there a way to specify a specific payment gateway for an event? This seems to be the only problem, for fear our Company Sponsored Events would choose the distributor option.
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Dean
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January 22, 2014 at 4:38 am
Hi,
Not currently, the gateways are site wide meaning when you activate a gateway, all events will use it.
As with most things, there is usually a way to do it, but just depends on whether your willing to dig into code or hire a developer to do it for you.
One way to do it involves editing the gateway files. E.g. gateways/invoice/invoice_vars.php
Add near the top say about line 29
$x = $payment_data['event_meta'];
if(isset($x['XXX'])) { return; }
and then in the events where you DONT want the invoice to show, add a custom meta field of XXX and value of XXX (you can of course replace XXX with something else so long as you change it in the code) it will then stop the invoice appearing on that event.
You could probably take it further by pulling in a catgeory instead but that needs more work as it isn’t available on that page by default.
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