Hello!

I have recently downloaded the ecommerce module and installed it on a development site for the Town of Blackstone. The town is interested in allowing its citizens to pay both utility bills and taxes online. I have suggested using PayPal to handle the transactions, and am hoping to also make use of the ecommerce module.

I began setting the "products" up as donations, planning to use the locale module to change the wording to make it appropriate for billing rather than donating. It seemed that all was going as planned, except for one thing. I need to be able to allow the person who is attempting to pay their bill ("donation") to enter their account number in a field on the product page. Once that account number is entered and the utility bill is paid, the account number needs to be (1) provided in the confirmation email to the payee and (2) somehow made accessible to the town treasurer, presumably in the backend at admin/store/transaction someplace.

Does anybody have any idea how something like this could be accomplished?

I am willing to pay for this modification. Please contact me to discuss details.

Thanks for your help!

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gordon’s picture

gordon commented

Well actually should be using the invoice module which will allow a person on the backend to enter the transactions and then the user can pay the invoice.

I would not set up products, I would just use misc transactions which can be anything that you want.

adamcraig’s picture

adamcraig commented

On this particular site, the citizens will not be permitted to have their own accounts. The only account that is in use is the user 1 account for site updates and maintenance. Thanks for the suggestion, though.

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adamcraig commented

For clarification purposes, because the "donation" module is being used, the citizen will be able to enter the amount of money they would like to pay in the donation amount box (they can get this off of the bill sent to them via snail mail). They simply need to be able to submit their name and account number so that town officials can record the PayPal transaction as being paid to the balance on the appropriate account. This process is necessary as this particular town is very small, and they need a simple process.

brmassa’s picture

brmassa commented
Priority: Critical » Normal
Status: Active » Fixed

Adam,

donations module is the wrong module for you. you should use normal products (non shippable) and create them manually. disabling the the "products/" page, people people wont be able to access them directly.

insert the some info on product description and enable the search feature.

regards,

massa

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Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)