Adding second option on payment-method (buying without paying, getting physical invoice with order (pay on account))

Question

I am using the Craft Commerce templates as a starter, haven't altered that much yet.

On the payment-method page, I have a gateway for credit card/Paypal, etc. via a plugin, which works fine.

I would like a second option, where the customer can make the order without paying, but will receive a physical invoice together with the post-package.

I guess this would mean, if the user clicks this additional option (on the payment-method page, the possible gateways are displayed as different radio options), they get redirected to a different payment.twig page, where they can finish the order without paying. (or alter the payment.twig page in some way)

I was searching, but could not find anything in this direction.

Answer 1

You want to look at Commerce's 'manual' gateway.

This is a gateway that let's you receive unpaid orders, which you can then process as you see fit, including manually 'capturing' the payment when it is ultimately made.

We use this to e.g. offer a mechanism for people to pay by direct bank deposit - we just leave the orders in a 'holding' status until the payment comes in, then we 'capture' the payment on the transaction tab in the order, and process as normal from there. But you could also process and send the order with an invoice of course.

Both the order processing flow and front end implementation are really entirely up to you, but the key is this gateway will accept the order without payment.

Here's our set up (in the Commerce -> System Settings -> Gateways area) as an example. Note the labelling here isn't great (where it says 'Credit Card Payment Type' can lead you to think you can only use this with cards, which is not the case at all...) - but it does what you want.

Note the documentation for this is here:

https://craftcms.com/docs/commerce/3.x/payment-gateways.html#manual-gateway

(...would be good to see that expanded with some practical examples, though)

Answer 2

This is working for me, there might be a better solution:

i get the id from the manual payment gateway (thanks jeremy), set it and if its this manual gateway i make the order without payment. https://craftcms.com/docs/commerce/3.x/making-payments.html#checkout-without-payment

otherwise go ahead with the normal process. i put this all in the payment.twig

 {% set id = 4 %}
 {% if id == cart.gatewayId %}            
   {{ hiddenInput('action', 'commerce/cart/complete') }}
   {{ redirectInput('/shop/customer/order?number='~cart.number~'&success=true') }}
 {% else %}
    {{ actionInput('commerce/payments/pay') }}
    {{ redirectInput(siteUrl('shop/customer/order', { number: cart.number, success: 'true' })) }}
    {{ hiddenInput('cancelUrl', siteUrl('shop/checkout/payment')|hash) }}
 {% endif %}

i also added a commerce.php file in the config folder and added this:

'allowCheckoutWithoutPayment' => true,