Ubercart

Hi,

I've been wanting a module similar to this, so thanks for posting this to Ubercart! I have tested the module and have some issues. It seem to be working pretty well except for a few points:

1) If completing the order, the order status stays on Pending and not Completed with the result that the user cannot download any files. Can it go directly to completed instead of pending, as no financial transactions are done?

2) Remove billing address. It's quite annoying and does not make sense for a 0 dollar purchase.

3) Remove or change "thank you for shopping" after completing an $0 dollar purchase. Again, somewhat strange when it's a free product.

Thanks again for an otherwise great module!

Dan

Hey Dan, thanks for the feedback. In answer to your queries, point 1 is actually just an issue where you would use a custom workflow configuration. You can set it up on checkout to see if the order total is <= $0 then update the order status. Point 2 could make a good additional option for the module, but it won't make sense for everyone. Perhaps better conditional display of checkout panes can work its way into Uber 2.0. And for point 3, I imagine you can add some conditional text to the checkout completion messages to get them to display properly.

Glad you found the module useful!

I mean, that I would have two options (buttons) for a ordering at each product.

1. Normal Order + quantity
2. Oder 1 free sample

Is it easy to reconfigurate your module for this purpose?

At the moment i´m thinking about using ubercart for my shop, which will be redesigned soon. And this would be something I would really need (or better the guys, that will do the job for me).

You could use an attribute to possibly do this that would deduct the price of the product for the free sample option. The free order module will pick up on the $0 order total and make that payment method available.

WORKFLOW_NG "payment_entered" Event?

Just noticed that orders that were free were not having their status updated with workflow_ng. That is the payment_entered event isn't being fired.

Any Suggestions?

UPDATE:

I think i figured this one out. Please correct me if I am wrong:

in uc_free_order.module i added the following to the end of the file

It seems to work fine.

--Nathan

Commented in this thread.

For item 2 the following change to the module appears to work:

Basically if payment method is free, and obviously value = 0 then unset the billing address pane.

The problem w/ unsetting it is going to be that if a shipping or tax gets applied to the order where payment becomes required, you're gonna be stuck without a billing info pane. I've used a show/hide solution with JS on a client's site that seemed to work well in the past... it just takes a little bit of JS programming instead of PHP.

If you just show/hide using JavaScript wont the Drupal FAPI still be expecting the required fields to be completed, even if they are not shown? How did you get around that?

Ahh, you are correct. I forgot the missing link. If I hid it, I guess I did something similar to what you did, but instead of unsetting I just turned off the #required field for the address fields.

Is there a version of uc_free_order upgraded to Drupal 6 and Ubercart 2.x?

Thanks.

The JavaScript contained in the tar file didn't work when some items in the basket were of a value >= 0.01
A variable referenced in the uc_free_order.js file was never set uc_free_order_next_method, causing the AJAX call back to fail. How this ever worked for others I do not know?!

Without this variable being populated it caused the payment details pane to be filled with a copy of the checkout page - which re cursed until FireFox stopped it. This was due to the AJAX call get_payment_details('cart/checkout/payment_details/' + uc_free_order_next_method); which never had a payment method on the end so failed.

Here's my amended function with some new JQuery to find the first available payment method and select that.

I've attached the full file too, as I'm not sure what the process is for supplying patches/updates to code hosted on ubercart.org ?

Any chance you could dig out where you achieved this Ryan?

The problem I'm having is detecting if the order/cart total is £0 or not from the hook_form_alter() stage. Before the visitor gets to the review form there is no cart order, no ID, so how do you get the cart contents total and determine whether to hide the billing or not?

I'm happy to work on the module and submit back, just need a push in the right direction.

You can just use the function uc_cart_get_contents() and loop through the items on the cart to see if they have prices. You have to calculate the total of the cart from there.

Perfect, thanks Ryan. I now have a working free_order module that hides the billing pane when its not necessary!
Is it worth submitting the module back to replace the existing/old one?

I need to get this module up on drupal.org. You can wait till then and post a patch there or just attach a patch here and I can migrate it when I migrate this module.

Alrighty, I just took the time to get this into CVS on drupal.org. Check it out and feel free to use the issue tracker at http://drupal.org/project/uc_free_order.

Question on:
1) If completing the order, the order status stays on Pending and not Completed with the result that the user cannot download any files. Can it go directly to completed instead of pending, as no financial transactions are done?

Got the same problem and tried to solv it with Workflow-ng.
Rule:
Invoked on event: A payment gets entered for an order

Condition: Payment method: Free order - payment not necessary.
Action: Update the order status : Payment received

I never worked with Workflow-ng, but I think this is correct, the only problem is - it is NOT working ???
What did I do wrong?

nextgate, you are on the right track here. I figured out the same issue before finding your post.

I checked the Workflows set up under Workflow_ng. Some items do not fire until "Payment Received" is triggered on the order. Free Order is not sending back that a payment was received, so some things don't get processed.

In my case, I am using uc_node_access. I am distributing some coupons to certain users for free access to certain nodes. Everything works fine, but they do not get access until I go into the Orders section and enter a payment ($0.00) for that order. As soon as I do, the workflow is fired and they get the access they "purchased" with the coupon.

Can Free Order return a "Payment Received" instead of just "Order Completed"? If so, then it should solve this problem for modules that are waiting for Payments before continuing.

Meanwhile, every order using Free Order needs to have a manual payment of ZERO entered so Ubercart thinks they got paid...

You don't have to do it this way... You can automate the process by creating a new Workflow-ng configuration that checks the payment method upon checkout and updates the order to payment received or even completed when it's done. This is the reason we chose Workflow-ng for handling things like this. It's totally configurable by the end user and extensible by contributed modules.

Thanks for all your hard work and quick response.

I think the solution was too simple! Sometimes we always try to look for the hard way to do stuff when a simple solution is sitting right there...

Thanks again!

bumping: when available for D6? Have used it on a D5 site, and it's great. Now another client, IN A BIG HURRY! and on a D6 installation. Any timeframe in mind???

Thanks, Ryan

There were enough patches at http://drupal.org/node/336138 for me to get uc_free_order.module working for Drupal 6.10/Ubercart 6.x-2.0-beta5. However, I can't seem to get file downloads to work. I tried setting up a conditional action to set the order status to payment received, but that didn't seem to make a difference. Any ideas?

I am experiencing the same problem. Anybody?

Hello,
I didnt get the free order to working so I tried another way.

I created a conditional action in ubercart for the use of free items/downloads in the shop (Drupal 6 and Ubercart 2).
This set should only registered users allow to download free items from the shop. As work around I am using the other payment method because only then the order gets completed and the order status will be triggered.

This is intended so because I want to show the free items only to registered users. So only they can see them in the shop and buy them for free.

This is how it looks:

Title: Update Order Status for free items to completed
Trigger: Order status gets updated

Conditions connected with "AND" operator
#1 Check order totals: less or euqal 0
#2 Check Payment mehtod: check or money order
#3 Check role of user: registered

Actions:
#1 Update order status. update original order to completed
#2 Renew files on an order: original order

I also added into the payment pack module file the following code:
$methods[] = array(
'id' => 'free',
'name' => t('Free Order'),
'title' => t('Free Order'),
'desc' => t('A free order payment method type.'),
'callback' => 'uc_payment_method_other',
'weight' => 11,
'checkout' => FALSE,
'no_gateway' => TRUE,
);

So you get a new button for your customer to select free order.

#23 and #24: Did you try patching with the CA locking patch? Let me know if you don't know what I'm talking about.

see my post #25.
I had to add the renew file option as well. so that the paid files will get accessible for the user.

rhyanod

Reply to #25

Thanks for the information, but it didn't work for me.

I'm using drupal 6.8 with UC 2.0 Beta-5

I didn't get your way to work but here was my solution, I didn't add the user role check because I wanted anonymous users to be able to checkout product and register at the same time.

Condition action

Trigger: Order status gets updated
Conditions connected with "AND" operator

#1 Check order totals: less or equal to $1

Actions:

#1 Update order status to: original order, payment received
#2 Renew files on an order: original order

Don't know if this has already been posted, tried using the solutions above, but there was a little more than met the eye, such as the cart id not being available on uc_cart_checkout_form and the return of the uc_cart_get_contents being an object rather than a typical array. Hopefully this will be a simple copy/paste solution to removing billing pane if cart total is $0 in 6.x without modifying the js:

In the .module's form alter, right underneath the drupal_add_js

//push contents of cart to object var
$objects = uc_cart_get_contents();

/* loop through object without having to cast $objects or use of get_object_vars,
the following foreach doesn't get the total price of the cart, but we don't need the total value, we just need to check to see if ANY item in the cart has a price of $0.01 or greater */
foreach($objects as $obj) {
$price += $obj->price;
}
$total_price = $price;
if ($price < 0.01){
unset($form['panes']['billing']);
}

I've been banging my head over the lack of cart contents on the checkout page -- I assumed that the code above would work and that I had a bug somewhere. I appreciate that you posted an update!

I've taken it a bit further, customizing it to be a "registration" page instead of a "purchase page"
hope this helps someone:

Hi all, please help. I am using this module so that certain customers with the correct coupon code can recieve their entire cart for free, however once the code is entered and it shows the total as £0, the free order button comes up but when i continue to review order, i get the error "we cannot process your order without payment".
Any ideas?

Thanks in advance

First, let me say that this module is exactly what I needed.

Here is my situation:
My client has to charge sales tax to customers in his state.

So, I have a Conditional Action to charge tax on orders from his home state.
He partnered with a third party company to distribute discounts to their targeted customers. (some free)
The CA was still applying tax to them.
I created another CA to disable tax on $0 orders.

So far so good.

Then we were having issues with still having the credit card pane on free orders.

Free Order Payment Method to the rescue. It seemed to answer the problem, but...

If an order for a free item originates from home state it gives the "we cannot process your order without payment" message. It does not give this error on out of state orders.

Well, the coupons were distributed and orders coming in. He does not charge shipping on these products, so I changed them to "Not Shippable" and set "apply tax to shippable items only" but we need to be able to charge tax on a non-free order of those products.

Please help.
Thank you

dustwolff,

Great work. Your code worked for me. Saved me hours of time!

Thanks again!

Now that I can remove the "Billing Info" from the "cart/checkout" page a blank "Billing Info" entry still appears on the "cart/checkout/review" page. Any one know how to remove that if the order is free?

Hi everybody,

I´m using D6 with ubercart 6.x-2.2 and i am using the store coupon modul on the checkout page. If i use the store coupon for 100% discount the total order price changes to 0,00 EUR but the payment method does not change to free order and this couses a problem with paypal. I´ve attached a jpg file to show how it looks like right now.

have a good day!

I realize this query is 4 years old, but I'm replying because I just spent some time myself figuring this out and want to save others the trouble.

To edit the form on the cart/checkout/review page, you can use theme_uc_cart_checkout_review() from your template.php to make whatever changes you want.

For example, inD6, the following in template.php would remove the "Billing information" pane from the form:

Hope this is helpful to someone, it would've saved me a lot of time!