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
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