Shopping Cart Questions

[ghwebhosting]

I have a customer that is a school. They would like to be able to accept online payments for tuiton, lunches, etc. Can I use the Shopping Cart to do that? Can I create an item that they can just enter the total in for and the system charge them for that amount?

Please let me know how I can accomodate them.

Jacob A. Gomez
G&H Computer Associates, Inc.

[Cameron Allen]

You can set up a payment system where people can pay for lunches/tuitions/books online, but you will need to set up a type of inventory system. This will take some php coding if you would like to do an auto inventory script.

[ghwebhosting]

You can set up a payment system where people can pay for lunches/tuitions/books online, but you will need to set up a type of inventory system. This will take some php coding if you would like to do an auto inventory script.
We wouldn't need inventory for lunches and tuition. Any way to do that without inventory. I just need them to be able to put in the amount they want to pay and be able to pay it.

[Cameron Allen]

I just need them to be able to put in the amount they want to pay and be able to pay it.

This is all you need the shopping cart to do? If so what payment process would you like to use?

[ghwebhosting]

This is all you need the shopping cart to do? If so what payment process would you like to use?
Yes, In addition to that we would be using it for the Bookstore/Uniform Sales.

We use a merchant account from Agora Services. I believe they will work with me to create the plugin for soholaunch.

Jacob

[Cameron Allen]

Set tuition as a sku, then use price variation options to allow for different payment ammount. Uniforms books ect. would simply be normal skus.

[ghwebhosting]

Set tuition as a sku, then use price variation options to allow for different payment ammount. Uniforms books ect. would simply be normal skus.
Ok. I was hoping that I wasn't going to have to do that. I just think it's tacky.

[Cameron Allen]

How exactly did you want to display the tuitions?

[ghwebhosting]

How exactly did you want to display the tuitions?
I was thinking they would just be able to "click" Tution and enter the amount that they want to pay. It would not be a set amount by us. It is determined by the customer.

[Cameron Allen]

So you need it to keep record for each individual student, and they have the students be able to pay x ammount, and that ammount to be subtracted from the individual students balance?

[ghwebhosting]

So you need it to keep record for each individual student, and they have the students be able to pay x ammount, and that ammount to be subtracted from the individual students balance?
Yes, I need it to keep record for each individual student. They need to be able to distinguish which student they are paying for (this could be done with Custom Questions, I think) and then they need to be able to put in the amount they want to pay. This will vary by family. If we can just setup a sku that will allow them to determine the amount then that would fix this problem, I think.

[Cameron Allen]

Ghwebhosting,
About the school site your doing, here is my idea:

Create a new Table, this table will have fields to include: students, password, email, student info, g.p.a., lunch plan, and finaly a field for tuition, and a payment field.

Now you need to create a secure user group such as students. You can populate this with the students username, password, email, misc. option . Next you need to pull up their account when they login, This would then pull from the tuition field and the payment field. Basicly the tuition field would be a field that is specified by dollar amount for each student. The payment field would be a field to store how much they have paid, so when they check there account the process would display: tuition - payment: then showing them their grand total.

Then if a student wanted to make a payment they would login with their username and fill out the billing info. After the payment is approved that number is added to the Payment field. Of course you should set up SSL to create a secure environment.

[ghwebhosting]

Cameron, that's a good idea. However, I don't have enough web programming experience to make that work at this time. I really don't need to be able track their tuition amount because we have that in our database. I just need them to be able to put money on their account. If we could do something similar to the donation item for one of my other customers I think that would be the easiest. For example, I setup a sku for tuition and mark the sku price customer defined. If someone adds tuition to their cart it asks them how much they want to pay. The system then puts that in and allows them to check out.