Using Slatwall for Internal Accounts

[Ben Spencer]

Hi, I would like to bypass the payment gateways altogether as the
implementation I am using is for an internal intranet ordering system.
Can this be done and how would you suggest to go about it?

[Greg Moser]

I can give you about 5 different ways to configure it, but I think the best for what you are talking about is just to set the products with a $0 price.  This way it will not require any payments for the order to be placed, because you don't need payments for orders that don't cost anything.

-Greg

[Ben Spencer]

Hi Greg thanks for that. Unfortunately pricing is still necessary. Think of it as an account based purchase rather than a ecommerce one. Is there an existing payment mechan ism for account based purchases (I couldnt see it) ?

 

cheers

 

Ben 

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From: slatwall...@googlegroups.com [mailto:slatwall...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Greg Moser
Sent: Saturday, 19 May 2012 9:29 AM
To: slatwall...@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Using Slatwall for Internal Accounts

[Greg Moser]

I gotcha so what you're really talking about is using something like a "term account" instead of some other payment method.  So my question is, where do you keep the balances for these accounts?  Are they pre-set... or do accounts have "credit limits?"  a couple more details on how the business is going to function and I'm sure we can get it set up.

I guess the main question.. do people have credit limits and then they pay it off, or do they have credit limits that they never pay off but resets on some regular schedule, or do they get a positive balance assigned to them some how like a gift card or a account stored credit like if you were to do a return and not take any money back?

-Greg

On Friday, May 18, 2012 7:00:56 PM UTC-5, Ben Spencer wrote:

Hi Greg thanks for that. Unfortunately pricing is still necessary. Think of it as an account based purchase rather than a ecommerce one. Is there an existing payment mechan ism for account based purchases (I couldnt see it) ?

 

cheers

 

Ben 

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From: slatwallecommerce@googlegroups.com [mailto:slatwallecommerce@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Greg Moser

Sent: Saturday, 19 May 2012 9:29 AM

To: slatwallecommerce@googlegroups.com

Subject: Re: Using Slatwall for Internal Accounts

[Ben Spencer]

Hi Greg,

 

Firstly sorry, I have sent you off on the worng tangent again. We dont really need to keep the balances etc...all we want is for the order request to be mailed to the internal staff member who will fill the order and then manually adjust the cost centres payment within the organisation. Effectively I am just wanting to bypass the payment mechanism altogether.

 

Its not really an account so musch then as an ordering system. 

 

The sompany is wanting to put up merchandise on their intranet which will allow branch offices to purchase them from head office..things like pens, beer can holders, shirts, umbrellas etc.

 

If there was a simple payment method that simply just approved everything (and went nowhere!), this would do the trick but being really new to the Slatwell code Im a little unsure of where to start.

 

Cheers and thanks again for your advice.

 

Ben

 

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From: slatwall...@googlegroups.com [mailto:slatwall...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Greg Moser
Sent: Saturday, 19 May 2012 10:24 AM
To: slatwall...@googlegroups.com

Subject: Re: Using Slatwall for Internal Accounts

[Greg Moser]

No problem at all... it usually takes a bit of back and fourth to figure out what is really going on.  probably the easiest thing to do would be to setup a new payment method called "None" and set the type to "external"...  That should do exactly what you want.  Unless of course you want the end user to enter credit card / billing address details but never charge them.  In which case there is a setting for checkout transaction type that you can just set to "none" instead of authorize or charge.

I should ask... are you on the new bleeding edge version of Slatwall? because this won't work on the old 1.3 version.  We are releasing the bleeding edge very soon as 2.0

-Greg

On Friday, May 18, 2012 7:53:14 PM UTC-5, Ben Spencer wrote:

Hi Greg,

 

Firstly sorry, I have sent you off on the worng tangent again. We dont really need to keep the balances etc...all we want is for the order request to be mailed to the internal staff member who will fill the order and then manually adjust the cost centres payment within the organisation. Effectively I am just wanting to bypass the payment mechanism altogether.

 

Its not really an account so musch then as an ordering system. 

 

The sompany is wanting to put up merchandise on their intranet which will allow branch offices to purchase them from head office..things like pens, beer can holders, shirts, umbrellas etc.

 

If there was a simple payment method that simply just approved everything (and went nowhere!), this would do the trick but being really new to the Slatwell code Im a little unsure of where to start.

 

Cheers and thanks again for your advice.

 

Ben

 

From: slatwallecommerce@googlegroups.com [mailto:slatwallecommerce@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Greg Moser

Sent: Saturday, 19 May 2012 10:24 AM

To: slatwallecommerce@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Using Slatwall for Internal Accounts

[Ben Spencer]

Hi Greg,

 

Slatwall Version: 1.3.16

 

How soon before you release? Is it a matter of days or weeks?

 

cheers

 

Ben

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From: slatwall...@googlegroups.com [mailto:slatwall...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Greg Moser
Sent: Saturday, 19 May 2012 8:50 PM
To: slatwall...@googlegroups.com

[Greg Moser]

Hey Ben,

I apologize for just now getting back to you.  I think we are realistically a couple of weeks away from calling 2.0 finished.  As we are going through different aspects of the entire application we are noticing some things that really need to be updated so that releases moving forward can come out in a much quicker fashion.

However, a lot of people are developing on the bleeding edge version right now which is the "develop" branch on github, and we have a number of live production sites running it.

-Greg

On Sunday, May 20, 2012 5:16:58 AM UTC-7, Ben Spencer wrote:

Hi Greg,

 

Slatwall Version: 1.3.16

 

How soon before you release? Is it a matter of days or weeks?

 

cheers

 

Ben

From: slatwallecommerce@googlegroups.com [mailto:slatwallecommerce@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Greg Moser

Sent: Saturday, 19 May 2012 8:50 PM