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Hi

i have searched the forums and documentation but can not find an answer so would appreciate some help or advice. I have no experience in PHP so if this is something that would require a lot of coding im probably best to leave it to the experts and find another way around things.

I am building a site using the latest version of Ubercart and Drupal 5.7 and am hoping to receive payment for products through Paypal. Is it possible to have a customer purchase a product (node) and pay in instalments

i.e.
a product costs £100
customer pays £50 at checkout
customer then returns to the site on or before a predefined date to pay the remaining balance for that product.

If this is not possible another idea i had is to place 2 links on the product page, one for payment in full and one for a minimum payment.

If the customer chooses minimum payment, when the next payment date is approaching a reminder would be sent out to the customer with a link to pay the remaining balance

As i am not expecting there to be a huge number of orders for the product at the moment the admin overhead shouldn't be to much of an issue and hopefully this functionality will be available in the future.

I am completely open to suggestion so please let me know if there is a better way to do this or if it is something best left to someone with good knowledge of PHP

Thank you

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Re: Is Payment in instalments possible?

This certainly isn't possible as is and will take a bit of code to make it work. If you aren't a skilled PHP coder, I'd consider trying to find someone to do it for you.

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A coder it is

I think i will take your advice and find someone to code this for me

Thanks Ryan

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Re: A coder it is

apdrupal, I am also interested in this functionality. Let me know how it is going maybe we can go in this together.

thanks

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Hi uberuser i have not as

Hi uberuser

i have not as yet considered looking into this as i am busy with other projects but if and when i do i will update you. If you start the process yourself it would be great if you could let me know

cheers

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Re: Hi uberuser i have not as

Well, my marketing guys just waltzed in with this one. I see it is not an original idea.

Assuming it hasn't been tackled yet, it looks as if a cloned version of the uc_recurring module is the right thing.

The major difference between recurring and installment is that uc_installment carries a balance forward on an order that either remains pending or moves into a special order->status = "on Terms" between "pending" and "complete" until hook_cron takes that final payment.

Does that sound about right?