Hi,

thanks for the tip.
But, im not planning yet to take other payment methods than paypal or bank transfer since unknown payment methods means less customers.

But googling stripe, it seems quite nice. I'll have to consider it also.

-Peter

NEED TWEAKS:
- Paypal express quick purchase button => IN GUEST MODE, WORKS ONLY WHEN STATE AND COUNTRY IS CORRECT (SHOULD WORK ALSO IF ONLY COUNTRY IS CORRECT)

What do you mean correct? Also customers should provide correct info to pay with PayPal
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I mean that expess quickpay button purchase works only, if paypal is entered with a proper state. At least when country is Finland, i must write the state by hand (ie. no option dopdown to select the state), thus means that if you have miss spelled state or you have not typed the state at all, the purchase wont go through. I think the state is compared somehow between paypal and abantecart ?

Otherwise, ok. I understand now that express is meant to be used as the reference for the purchase (ie. products shipped to address defined in paypal).

So for me, i think the pp_standart is the payment method to be used in my case. I just have to swallow the fact that i can't do refunds from abantecart admin side, or could it be implemented to pp_standart ?

But i still have plenty of think with my custom priced items.

What i have now done is as follows:

1. Product items with default price of 0
2. if product with this specific id is entered to cart and the price for that item is 0 -> set cart price to 0 (this is not fully implemented, i have only implemented the case if cart subtotal is 0, dont add flat_rate_shipping cost or fixed_shipping to cart. I one item has a price, the shipping cost will be added to cart.
3. When customer has checked out the 0 priced cart, i will get a notification and i will estimate the price for what the customer needs.
4. I will give the product a promotion to cutemergroup including only the customer who made the custom item request.
5. Send update by mail or into order status -> that tells customer to go an add the item again to cart
6. customer has a custom price on an item and shipping is added to the total price.
7. ... ship the items.

So i need still to create some logic how and what to do if customer has "fixed" price items + the 0 priced items in cart.
Maybe i have to build a button that says -> get /wait for price estimate which then puts the order as custom order status into admin page so that i can see, that someone wants to get a price estimation of a custom priced item.

I found one place in the code that removes the issue, ie. leaves the tax in the final price but i wont tell it to you

Naa, ok here is the line (first i searched for zone and state and commented out them from code, then i searched for word tax and i found it, btw. i use Aptana ide and its super nice to open eg. abantecart folder. It can "grep" text inside the opened folder, and thats how i found the tax issue):

abantecart/extensions/default_pp_express/storefront/controller/responses/extension/default_pp_express.php#341 > $this->tax->setZone($country_id, $zone_id);

i commented out this line of code.
Unfortunately??? or maybe not but it will allow even other country addresses in paypal side to "pay the bill".
Well i think thats okay as long as abantecart wont forward payments to paypal when countri is not Finland. ( i have to test this a bit i think)

Why i wanted this was because of the fact, that im planning to open a webstore in Finland only, and whole Finland tax rate is the same all over finland... ie. 24% tax :/
Its nice to live here with this kind of tax rates but maybe thats ok, since we don't have tornados, landslides, earthquakes and zunamis... The only problem we have is, we are drowning in money

One more thing. Paypal_standart does not care of the state field in paypal. It can be empty and the tax will still be applied to the final price.

I use the built-in promotion discount option. See from attachment.

Both AbanteCart customer address and payer address is in finland. So that should not  be the problem.
I also use sandbox version of paypal and i run the abantecart from localhost but using a tunnel to open ports to the wan.

I doublechecked the customer address vs paypal address.
Customer addresses matched on abantecart side and paypal side and as stated before, paypal standart payment method works correctly.
Why then pp_express ? Well mainly  because it has the admin page refund button. No other reason.

Image series capture2-capture4 shows the issue i'm having. Normally my products costs 0€ and i have a +30€ promotion "inverted discount" to the item.

Hello,

after turning everything in and out, i found a quite good way of doing this.
Let me share this:

Product specific PROMOTIONS and even further PROMOTIONS that can be bound to specific USER GROUPS!
Thats it. When customer enters as a new person to the webstore, the price is 0. When i get the custom order info i can take the name of the person, add this name as customer group and apply this customer group as a PROMOTION to the custom product. This way, new customers will always see custom product as price 0.
Aftert customer placed and paid his order, i will just remove the PROMOTION and thats that. If the same customer returns with a new custom order, again i can create a new custom price PROMOTION.

There is still couple of issues related to 0 priced prodcuts in the cart => like when they go and order the cart even though custom priced product is not yet defined with a price.
At this point i could make use of the product code and product price in an if statement to check 

pseudocode:
If (item_id = 12 & item_id_price) = 0 {
   => at checkout button press, skip paypal redirection and go to info page stating => please wait for the custom order to be priced. If you want to order all the other items, remove the custom order and try to checkout again.
}


Actually its like this.

In admin page i create a coupon with negative value -20.00
When this coupon is processed on my cart, the value will be shown in text field as --20.00

Checking from DB the coupon text shows --20.00€ and the actual value shows 20.00.
When i try to checkout, paypal_Express will fail in an error:
PayPal Express Checkout Error
Error has occured during request. Please try again later.

When choosing paypal standart, it will go to paypal, but the value has been changed to -20.00€.

Hi,

i have a problem mainly since i don't know how to get variables into my current site.
With get_defined_vars() function i get a "billion" lines long list of variables we can see from current page.

I want to get the products array but i cannot get how i could get the array eg. for echoing or other statements.
After the array listed below ther is a
[order_info] => Array
        (
         ...
         )

And that one i can "access" => print '<pre>' . htmlspecialchars(print_r($order_info, true)) . '</pre>';

I have this sections in mind:

[order_data:AOrder:private] => Array
                (
                    [store_id] => 0
                    [store_name] =>
                    [store_url] =>
                    [customer_id] =>
                    [customer_group_id] =>
                    [firstname] =>
                    [lastname] =>
                    [email] =>
                    [telephone] =>
                    ...
                    [payment_method] => PayPal Express Checkout
                    [products] => Array
                        (
                           

• => Array

                                (
                                    [product_id] => 112
                                    [name] => Product name
                                    [model] =>
                                    [option] => Array
                                        (
                                           

• => Array

                                                (
                                                    [product_option_value_id] => 748
                                                    [product_option_id] => 349
                                                    [name] => send file
                                                    [element_type] => U
                                                    [value] => filename.ext
                                                    [prefix] =>
                                                    [price] => 0.0000
                                                    [sku] =>
                                                    [weight] => 0.00000000
                                                    [weight_type] =>
                                                )

                                        )

                                    [download] => Array
                                        (
                                        )

                                    [quantity] => 5
                                    [price] => 1
                                    [total] => 5
                                    [tax] => 1.2
                                    [stock] => 1
                                    [sku] =>
                                )

                        )

                    [totals] => Array
                        (
                           

• => Array

                                (
                                    [id] => subtotal
                                    [title] => subtotal:
                                    [text] => 5.00€
                                    [value] => 5
                                    [sort_order] => 1
                                    [total_type] => subtotal
                                )

                            [1] => Array
                                (
                                    [id] => shipping
                                    [title] => shippingfee:
                                    [text] => 8.30€
                                    [value] => 8.30
                                    [sort_order] => 3
                                    [total_type] => shipping
                                )

                            [2] => Array
                                (
                                    [id] => tax
                                    [title] => tax
                                    [text] => 1.20€
                                    [value] => 1.2
                                    [sort_order] => 5.1
                                    [total_type] => tax
                                )

                            [3] => Array
                                (
                                    [id] => total
                                    [title] => total:
                                    [text] => 14.50€
                                    [value] => 14.5
                                    [sort_order] => 1000
                                    [total_type] => total
                                )

                        )

                    [comment] =>
                    [total] => 14.5
                    [language_id] => 2
                    [currency_id] => 2
                    [currency] => EUR
                    [value] => 1.00000000
                    [coupon_id] => 0
                    [ip] => ...
                )