Show Defer Payment only for Admin...?

[hautebox]

We only except credit cards for our online food orders...Hence payment methods are configured for auth.net standard gateway options (visa, amex,etc).

On occasion, I have a select group of customers we allow to place telephone orders and pay with cash when we deliver.

In that instance, I manually create an order through the admin interface. Currently, I select the "defer payment" option. However, there doesn't seem to be a way to "add a payment" without creating the "Phone Order" method and having that show as an option to the general public.

Am I missing a "hidden/private" option for the display, or is AC set up to display all payment methods...?

Is there a way to configure the deferred offline methods and only have them available in the Admin interface?

Hauteboxmeals.com

[mazhar]

Here is a workaround suggestion, it may work in your case. Simply put a little custom code on your merchant side order wizard to load and show method for example phone call. Go to your Website/Admin/Orders/Create/CreateOrder4.aspx.cs and locate following code

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PaymentMethodCollection availablePaymentMethods = StoreDataHelper.GetPaymentMethods(_UserId);

then put following code just benethe above line

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PaymentMethod paybyPhoneCall = PaymentMethodDataSource.Load(paymentMethodId);
            if (paybyPhoneCall != null)
                availablePaymentMethods.Add(paybyPhoneCall);

where paymentMethodId represents the id of payment method. In order to get this value you need to look in your database's ac_PaymentMethods tables and replace correct integer value in place of paymentMethodId in load method. This modification will always show Pay By Phone Call method available on admin side.

[AbleMods]

Is there a way to configure the deferred offline methods and only have them available in the Admin interface?

Create a new user group called "Admin Pmt Methods", add your admin-side users to it and then assign the admin-only payment methods to that user group "Admin Pmt Methods".

Only members of the assigned group will be see those payment choices - visitors will never know they exist.

[hautebox]

Joe,

Brilliant solution...! Took me about 90 seconds to implement...!!! I'm not very versed on programming, databases, or the ConLib, so for me this was super straight forward remedy...

I haven't attempted Mazhar's suggestion for fear I would major league mess something up...

Thanks to you both for quick responses to my post.

Hautebox