Thanks, Bruce. I'll look forward to that update landing in trunk and offer my client the workaround of charging the card in their Auth.net account.
On Feb 3, 3:04 pm, Bruce Kroeze <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 9:16 AM, Trent <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I've been looking through source and trying to answer this question, > > but I thought I would just write a post to this group to get the > > answer quickly, if possible. > > > Does Satchmo charge a credit card at order submission, or does it only > > auth the card and charge it upon order status change to shipped? To > > my knowledge, there are laws in the States that do not allow a vendor > > to charge a credit card until an order has actually shipped. > > Considering this regulation, Satchmo would need to account for this > > auth/charge scenario, but I can't find where that might happen in > > code. Can somebody shed some light on this subject? > > This is a weakness in the current codebase. You *can* set the card > modules to do "AUTH" only, and then it won't charge, just authorize. > Do that in the payment module settings. > > However, there isn't any ability to capture the charge afterwards, you > have to go into your payment gateway account and manually capture when > you've shipped. > > The good news is that I'm working with a big client right now, and > they are going to require this functionality for their workflow. So I > expect that the functionality will finally be worked out quite soon - > on the trunk only. > > Hope that helps, > Bruce Kroezehttp://gosatchmo.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Satchmo users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/satchmo-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
