Thread: Purchase Order Purchases

How is it possible to create details specifically for larger companies who wish to order by purchase order numbers rather than pay by credit cards. But keep their inforamtion as restricted area.

moving to ebusiness section...

Vicki,

You might try rephrasing this question in the forms room requesting assistance for building a form for taking purchasing orders. Keep in mind.. this will also require ssl most likely, cuz you will be dealing with and collecting sensitive information, so what you want is a payment form geared for purchase orders, and David.. whom has been AWOL, or Naval is the one to get assitance from for this.. and as I mentioned to you.. maybe not be free.. but if it can be done.. one of those two im sure could whip it up for you.

Karen

Not sure what exactly you mean here. Yes, you can have an order form of ANY type you like. Yes, you can have this order form inside a password / username protected area. Yes, you can have the form info gathered in a database. No, you should not have the info (if it is sensitive) emailed to you. An SSL certificate would be required for security.

Please clarify what you need exactly.

Naval,

She needs to process purchase orders like a credit card, but obviously it needs a seperate database and a seperate form to collect the products ordered and to enter the purchase order number and authorization codes. Thats the best I can splain.. hopefully Liz will come back to this.. Shes in Austraila so she should be alive here shortly.

Karen

Ok, the following is a solution i have adopted for a client of mine. Of course, depending on the number of products, a real or a mini shopping cart would be required:

1. Products can have their own page, or be all (if only a few) gathered in a unique page. By clicking on the product image (or any other link placed beside the product) a popup comes up. This popup contains the product info, details, quantity and options (if any). It also contains as many input boxes for quantity as the available options. The client types the required quantities for each option and then clicks "Add to Cart"

2. After all products have been selected and added to cart, by clicking "View Order" you get to the Orde review page, where items are all listed with their respective quantities and prices, as well as amounts and totals. The Order number is automatically assigned by the script, and the client details are retieved from the database (the client needs to be registered and loged in). In that case, a scales price list was adopted, and each client was assigned a discount % (which is defined by the administrator manually in the database, can be setup separately for each client)
3. In the Review Order page there is a special input box, where client can type a further discount coupon code (if he has one, or if the site has some offers on certain products).
4. As last step, you can refresh the page, or simply Confirm the order.

Once the order has been confirmed, all info is stored in the database. An email with alink to the database is sent to the site admin, and another, with only the Product details, sent to the client. The admin clicks on the link contained in the email and gets redirected in the database interface wich opens up displaying the client and the order details. This way no sensitive data (client details) is emailed, so there is no chance that the mail info gets caprured by anyone.

As you understand, the whole site is SSL secured, and the database interface is username / password protected.

In that application, there is a further step: the client is redirected to PayPal to pay. Upon return to the site, the script also verifies payment with PayPal's database and if the payment is complete, it emails both the site owner as well as the client.
Depending on the particular needs, further optionals are possible: shipping charges calculation, order tracing, etc.

Naval

I sent her off an email directing her here so you and her can werk on it. She is building a site in bv.. i think with paypal shopping, but.. she also needs this special purchase.. and I dont have time to play with the form maker.. so im redirecting her your way! Soho Keeps me too busy to play with that for the moment. She should drop here.. shortly I hope.

Karen

Karen,

FMP is just fine if you simply need a form to collect info. But, if this has to be an order form, which means that products have to be retrieved from a database, it no longer is sufficient (or at least i beleive so). I will see with Liz what she needs and if i can do it.

Thank you

I have received Karen's email telling me you are trying to communicate with me. Although I ticked for email notification of replies I have not received anything until Karen's email.

Firstly let me correct one point I am UK based not Australia but I do sell Australian products.

To put a bit of background to you I am a SOL merchant thinking of moving host and was pointed in Voda Hosts Direction nad Blue Voda. My knowledge of HTML or any siuch thing is limited if not none existant but the one thing I can do is follow step by step instructions!

My website serves two areas it sells direct to the average internet surfer and also will supply items wholesale. Previously on SOL this was split by different price sets. There were three non restircted price sets - GB£ US$ and Euro these were for the average internet purchaser and go through the normal shopping cart regime to collect payment. Then the fourth price set was restricted and required password to log in and access wholesale prices. Although they never reached the actual setting up process this restricted price set was not going to look for any cc details and would be placed by the addition of a purchase order number. I would then invoice in a more normal time honoured tradition and they would pay me by cheque(I assume) in the post.

I am trying to maintain these choices but also my processor is PayPal Pro UK which is only integrated on limited shopping baskets and is totally different to PayPal Pro (US version) - I do not want to loose this processor it was too hard to get up and running in the first place!

I need to spend as little as possible to include this all in my new website or as much as possible. Perhaps if you look at the existing site you will see what I am trying to *******te www.naturesnaturalbeauty.com - without the mishaps and gremlins etc.

Look forward to your advice

regards

Liz

Hi Liz,

just gave a look at your shop.
I saw a couple of things, but i need more info. If you wish, contact me through my contact form.

Thanks

Cant use your contact form have tried twice and it tells me it is illegal contact! You could email me if you ask Karen my email address or get Karen to mail me your email address.

Ok, it seems like your browser doesn't support cookies and my script refuses to process your form submission. Any way, you can use info @ dbtechnosystems.com without whitespaces

Liz,

I apologize. You are in the UK selling Australian products and VICKI is in Austrailia, and you both are emailing me and asking me questions and on two forums..LOL. Got it straight NOW. LOL

Karen

No problems Karen but wasn't sure if it was relevant to how to attack the problem!

regards

Liz