Cash mod progress

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Just one little muse, few things work first time, and in this case with paypal I had a problem as the template contains forms values for paypal and I had a field wrong. Sort of thing which if it happened in someone shop they could easily fix themselves as they would be editing their own template.

How good I wonder will people be at notifying us of fixes? or of new gateways they may be able to code in?


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I am adding a few more things to improve the way sales tax is handled.

This along with shipping has to be the most complex lot of awkwardness going

There are several  things interacting, the server level shop code that only myff can alter, the javascript shop that the customer should avoid altering if possible, the shop template that they should customise, and last but not least the various payment gateways.

As people may know we like to run a very simple system where apart from advert free there are no charges for anything on myff.

I do find myself wondering that with a shop if people want to run a serious commercial shop, then whether making it possible for them to pay a fee and have their own version of the shop would be a sensible proposition. That way they would be operating safe from the changes that are probably inevitable as the shop system evolves.
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I think I may rethink this and simplify.

Currently the code is set to recognize the fact that some goods are taxable and some are not.

But whilst this is true there is the 95% rule I commented on earlier, generally what people are selling does not vary in tax rate.

Given that you can have multiple shops on the system, that could deal with differences, it seems just asking for trouble to try and cope with the 5%.

If we simply say you define a shop with taxation and shipping defined at the shop level, then a lot of complexity at both the coding level and in terms of peoples ability to understand and use the system will be removed.
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Added an internal payment method that takes email/shipping info and will email admin/customer.

I think I will also add an emailer at the point where the payment processor returns to the site.

I will make this email in effect a dump of all the forms data it is passing to the admin, with a view to refining this for each payment method at a later date.

You can never have too much info on a shop order IMHO.
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Well that bit is in theory done.

There is in effect a switch statement for each payment type that will either process intelligently the form data and email the admin and the customer (must add some customisable bits for this actually) or it will dump the forms data and just email the admin.

The customer should always be notified by the payment processor regardless.

Just need to psyche myself up to spend some money. I know I can always refund myself, but I'd still rather avoid going round that loop too endlessly.
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would this open up the possibility of an auctions mod in the future?
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I don't see it opens up such an option, as as far I can see an auction mod would be totally different.

The only relevant thing we will have gained is the experience with payment gateways.
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email billing seems to be testing okay I think that is probably quite academic though, as I can't see why people would use the option?

But I do think that whilst keeping the shop simple, we do need to be fairly comprehensive in some areas.

In fact I am wondering if I need a big alteration to allow people to selected payment processor from a range. e.g. some people don't like paypal, and myff is actually setup to allow nochex,paypal and google checkout, so why not let people choose?
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