Deposit specified for distinct products

[Zorro67]

Hi all,

I know the issue of deposits has been requested before, but I didn't want to bump an old thread.

My request is somewhat different. i wonder if its possible to modify products & services to have an option to take a deposit/set a % to be invoiced upon order, rather than create a manual invoice.

Personally think its a bad idea for deposit on domain names or hosting, but for add on products, especially where you are creating a service, or reselling some-one else's products (whilst having to adhere to the supplier's terms and conditons) a deposit would be a good scenario.

this would be relevant to using the cart, as it already does a breakdown of pay now and later (eg monthly hosting selected)

Is this possible?

Or should I be asking Matt for a custom hack?

[iLLuSi0nS]

Yes, I second this. I do web design and when a customer signs up for a website design package, I only require them to pay 30% upon signup, and 70% when the site is done and is about to go live.

Anyway to solve this? Anyone?

[Zorro67]

Matt replied a while ago to me telling me that the payment amount is controlled by the invoice, not by the order form.

he suggested adjusting the price to read " - Deposit" and reducing the product price.

I'm not sure this would be easy to use considering that we have annual charges on some products like hosting and support.

Ideally, i would like to specify a deposit % for certain products

AFAIKT, the only easy way to do this would be
- detailing the correct % and payment terms as a note near the order now button (easy)
- adding the information to terms & conditions (of course)
- a note at the bottom of the invoice (or in the gateway instructions) detailing the payment arrangement (could be done)
- easy for gateway payments - here is the tax invoice, % due now and % due at xx/xx/xx given date or agreed milestone
- a little trickier for paypal or other gateways, but could be done - need to test how easily the customer can modify the amount, and how this affects the buying process/user experience (you can tell he's in marketing )

The down side might then be in exporting to accounting software, especially as our Tax system is setup to account for income as received, not billed.

More investigation needed for this.