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Fri, 02/20/2009 - 05:47
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We're using Ubercart 5.x-1.7 for the development of a site. We have a few sample products in our catalog that have a cost of $0.00 (free). The customer is also not charged any shipping and handling for these items.

Is there a way to use the Ubercart to have customers place orders with these products? Right now, if I add a $0.00 cost item into the shopping cart, and click "Checkout", the module does not let me proceed.

Maybe there is a coding workaround for this? Obviously we could just put all of our sample products on a separate Drupal page, and allow people to send an email requesting samples. However it would be very advantageous if we could just make it part of the regular ordering process. Customers could just add sample items to their shopping cart as part of a single order.

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Fri, 02/20/2009 - 09:42
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Re: Allow customers to purchase free (no cost) sample products?

Curious... it should not be doing anything to keep you from proceeding unless you've set a minimum order subtotal at admin/store/settings/cart/edit. Now that I'm looking at it, I don't really see what that is in core. Sticking out tongue

Anyways, after that, you should also check out my free order payment method module.

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Fri, 02/20/2009 - 19:55
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Hey Ryan, yes the initial issue was due to the minimum order subtotal. I definitely will check out the free order payment method.

Can you tell me, how does Ubercart handle $0.00 transactions if the free order payment method is not used? Does it attempt to send a $0.00 transaction to the payment processor (and therefore charge the merchant a transaction fee)?

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Fri, 02/20/2009 - 23:46
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It would attempt to, but I'm not sure if you'd be assessed any fees or not.

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Sun, 02/22/2009 - 23:00
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Hmmm well to avoid additional fees and to avoid the additional processing overhead, why not just simulate a successful transaction return?

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Mon, 02/23/2009 - 10:30
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I think in the site where I ran into this problem, I just used the free order payment method and added a Wf-ng configuration to update an order to Payment received (or Completed) if a customer completed checkout using that payment method and the order balance was <= $0.00.

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Tue, 04/12/2011 - 03:35
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thanks

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