Freeform Approval

[enduser]

Would love your opinion / idea on whether or not something is possible.

Is it possible to add an email address for approval at the point of approval. Here is a breakdown of what we would like:

1. Person A places the order
2. Person A will enter an email address for every order that can be unique of Person B who needs to approve the Order. Person B will have their own XMPie login.
3. Person B will pay via their credit card after approving the order
4. Then the order gets sent to our AlphaGraphics with a copy to person A and person B

[couch]

Today, XMPie does not recommend combining credit card payment with approval process.

The reason for this is that the payment is taken when the order is submitted by the customer - IE before the approver has approved it ( and before the approver has possibly edited an item changing the value/cost of the order ).

By default, you cannot put a credit card clearing provider on a store that has approval process defined - or vice versa.

However, you can permit it, but editing the clearing provider plugin pair and specifically permitting the clearing provider to be used on a store with an approval process.

That said, it is still not addressing your question about having the approver actually pay for the order...

Of course, you are welcome to submit a feature request for the product manager to consider and prioritize in his development schedule.

Possibly a manual work around could be to:

* use invoice clearing - which would allow the order to be accepted without credit card payments. 

* when the approver approves the order, use the queue mechanism to create a specific order handling queue for these order to go into as a temporary holding queue until payment is received

* the queue can be configured with a trigger to send the approver an email with details on how to pay for the order

* a store administrator would have to manually move the orders to the usual production queues once the payment has been received, or you could

* write custom order handling actions to check for payment and move the order items once payment has cleared.