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Deep Inside osCommerce: The Cookbook

By : Monika Mathe
Book Image

Deep Inside osCommerce: The Cookbook

By: Monika Mathe

Overview of this book

osCommerce has been around since March 2000. At present there are over 10,000 live, registered osCommerce sites, and about 100,000 registered community members. Apart from providing ready-made solutions to problems, as well as a huge repository of information, the osCommerce community is a living entity with which we can all interact. With the rising success and popularity of this remarkable piece of software, things can only get better.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Deep Inside osCommerce: The Cookbook
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Introduction

57. Offer Customized Payment Options for Selected Customers


This is a great recipe if you'd like to offer specific payment options to a small group of trusted customers and not to others. The next time your favorite customer calls and asks for immediate shipment while he or she sends a bank draft, you can make this possible without risking another visitor to your store finding the same option available to them when you installed it specifically for the two minutes needed to enter the special order.

There are contributions such as Separate Pricing Per Customer, which besides offering different pricing options, offers the functionality to allow or disallow certain shipping or payment modules to each specific customer. These contributions are time consuming to install and more importantly, they modify your core files to such a degree that adding further modules can become a painstaking task. With this module you need not change any file other than the specific payment module you are offering...