When using CataLook for donations, I want to send a receipt to the donor after the credit card has been approved and the gift is confirmed.
An email is sent (order receipt notification) immediately upon submitting credit card, but this is not confirmation of payment.
Since these are donations and not inventory, we must maintain a stock quantity of 1. Therefore we have stock control set to manual based upon generation of an invoice.
However, we dare not generate an invoice; and so we have no way to autogenerate an acceptable thank-you/invoice document for tax purposes, etc, to the donor.
As I write this I suppose that I could put a trigger on the products table to ensure that the quantity remains at or returns to 1, and then set invoicing back to automatic (assuming that it is based upon successful credit card processing).
Any other thoughts in this regard? Seems that CataLook is not fully "donation" capable without dealing this this internally ... though in other respects it works great for donations.
Thanks, this is helpful.
By turning on the inventory options, you mean to leave
"Display items only if they are in stock and activate inventory tracking for rentable and ticket products"
and
"Not allow the sale of an item that is no inventory"
unchecked?
Seeing that "stock control" is a radiobutton.
When I put -xxx in the stock quantity for a fund (product) I got an "invalid value" error.
-1 worked ... that ok?
I need a little clarification on this because I think I have to revert back to the stock cart_skin ...
In the old days, we had to wrap <div style="display:none"> around the contents of the ItemTemplate that housed the "Quantity" label and text box to keep it from displaying. What I think I understand is that this is no longer necessary.
However, I have one store which is donations only, with Stock set to 1 for each product, Stock Control Type set to invoice/credit note (Store Settings) and Invoice Creation Type set to "Manually". And no invoice was ever sent. This setup, as I understood it, was necessary to keep the stock amount set at 1.
Since that time, am I correct in understanding that I can instead set Stock to -1, Stock Control Type to Invoice/Credit Note and Invoice Creation Type to After Payment ... and this setup will work for Donation products which never get depleted? And I can put 1 in the "Selectable quantities" box to hide the quantity label and textbox in the Cart ... and restore the old Cart Skin ?
With the end result that for the donation shopping cart, things will continue as they are now (with the added benefit that the donors actually now get an invoice upon payment) ... and in the other portal store, which is actually going to sell inventory, I can set it up to work normally (display quantity etc in the Cart)?
I hope I'm making sense here. Have enhancements in CataLook changed things in the way I'm trying to describe?