Support

February 13, 2015 at 5:00 pm

Hi Erica,

This is the line of code I mentioned in the other thread:

if ($myPaypal->ipnData['mc_gross'] >= $payment_data['total_cost'] && ($myPaypal->ipnData['payment_status'] == 'Completed' || $myPaypal->ipnData['payment_status'] == 'Pending')) {
			$payment_data['payment_status'] = 'Completed';

The idea I had was to remove the first part of the code, which does a comparison to how much money was paid vs how much money is owed. So what happens is if the amount paid equals (or is greater in the case of tax added) the amount owed, then Event Espresso sets the payment status to complete.

My idea for that other thread was to remove that check, because in the case of making a partial payment, the amount paid will actually be less than the amount owed. So the code ends up looking like this:

if ($myPaypal->ipnData['payment_status'] == 'Completed' || $myPaypal->ipnData['payment_status'] == 'Pending') {
			$payment_data['payment_status'] = 'Completed';

February 17, 2015 at 4:11 pm

Hi Erica, terribly sorry, I remember Josh telling me to get with you about this, and I forgot. I think I wrote that thing up a while ago and I think we took it down because it was pretty hard to implement.
Can you fill out the form here: https://eventespresso.com/send-login-details/
I’ll probably need ftp credentials to put some debugging code in, to see what is going on. It sounds like the 2nd payment update is going through the ipn verification, but it’s still not updating the EE payment, for some reason.

February 18, 2015 at 10:41 am

Hi Scott,
As you can see from Erica’s experience, it’s not something that is easy to do, requires a number of hacks, and takes a lot of massaging to get it to work in EE3. That’s why we took down the unofficial how-to, even though it said at the top that it was officially not supported, it still led to to much support time being spent on it.
It was something that I kind of bore down and forced to make work on my test site, but everybody who has tried to follow along with what I did has trouble with it, including the rest of the support staff. I wouldn’t recommend trying it. Instead I would recommend waiting a little while longer for official support for partial payments in EE4. Work on that feature was blocked until release of 4.6, but now that it’s out, work has resumed, and I would expect to see something in the pre-release channel fairly soon. (officially, we cannot give any firm date on any release. We’re an Agile development shop, and part of that is staying flexible)

February 18, 2015 at 11:06 am

You’re EE3 license comes with EE4. It should be available in your download page. Eventually, we’d like to see everyone move to EE4 as the features that they need are added to EE4. I would recommend trying it out on a development server, or locally, to get a feel for it, make sure it’s feature complete enough for your needs, etc. The core system is much, much better, but with the library of add-ons that was built up for EE3 over the years, we are still racing to add features to EE4 so that all of our customers can switch.