In a message of Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:47:21 GMT, John Pinner writes:
>2009/3/10 Laura Creighton <[email protected]>:
>> I am trying to pay for Jacob with my credit card.
>> It won't work, because the 'cardholder' field is filled in with
>> 'Mr Jacob Hallén'.
>
>I believe that the payment form is produced to comply with PayPal
>requirements. I have customised it a little, but there is no scope for
>adding the cardholder name.
>
>Also, if you could enter the cardholder name on this screen, then
>potentially the name would not match that entered on the booking form,
>and the whole thing would give up with a NameError.
>
>There are two things we could do:
>
>1. Add separate billing and shipping addresses to the preceding form.
>When we tried this before we got people filling in the wrong data
>(reversing the addresses), which fouled up the conference prints,
>badges etc. I'd rather not repeat this.
>
>2. Follow the suggestion in the 'Booking Help':
>
>"""
>What if you wish to book in multiple people?
>
>The booking system looks after both Registration and Payment, so
>please do not register several people in one person's name, or we'll
>have to get individual details from you and enter the data. This will
>be a nuisance to both you and us. If you want to pay for your group in
>one transaction, please:
>
>    * Register each person individually, selecting Cheque or Postal or
>Bank Transfer payment, and noting the registration reference numbers
>    * Send a cheque to 'The PyCon UK Society' covering the total,
>quoting the reference numbers, or
>    * Pay by Bank Transfer quoting the reference numbers, or
>    * Telephone the number below to pay by credit card, making clear
>that you are paying for the EuroPython 2009 conference, and quoting
>the reference numbers.
>"""
>
>Which has worked so far for 69 registered delegates.
>
>Best wishes,
>
>John
>--

I think that what should be done is to add a field in the form
'If you intend to pay by Credit Card:  Name of the Card Holder'
which you can pre-fill in with the name of the person attending.

What do other people think?

Laura
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