[civ]

It seems that no matter how much we tweak our checkout process there are still users who are not smart enough to make it all the way through - sometimes I just don't get it, lol.

With this small mod though you can give them the opportunity to pay for those listings that they abandoned for one reason or another. This is what it will look like when they browse their listings:



When clicking that link they will be injected into step 6 of the normal checkout process, where they will only have to choose the payment provider they wish to use (paypal, CC, etc), and submit their payment.

Here is how to add this simple mod...

Find these lines in userbrowselistings.tpl.php:

{elseif $entry.display == "Y"}
  {$smarty.const.LANG_YES}
{else}
  {$smarty.const.LANG_NO}
{/if}

And add this code immediately after them:

{if $entry.display == "C"}
<br /><a href="usercheckout.php?step=6&listingid={$entry.id}" style="font-weight: bold; color: green;">Pay & activate</a>
{/if}

I hope this helps someone.

[juven14]

That is a nice touch civ, will probably use that.

[Lhotch]

Great idea Civ.

[BigOrange]

Originally Posted by civ

{if $entry.display == "C"}
<br /><a href="usercheckout.php?step=6&listingid={$entry.id}" style="font-weight: bold; color: green;">Pay & activate</a>
{/if}

I couldn't get that to work for me. I'm not sure why. Has anyone else tried it?

I made a slight change to the logic however and it worked fine. Here is what I have that works:

{if $entry.display != "Y"}
       <br /><a href="usercheckout.php?step=6&listingid={$entry.id}" style="font-weight: bold; color: green;">Pay & activate</a>
{/if}

I'm new to 68Classifieds so what I did may have screwed something else up.

Thanks for the mod I see where it can be helpful.

One other thing that would be a real help in getting listings paid for would be a means to email an invoice from the admin panel to users who did not complete the PayPal process or to users who placed a new ad and choose to pay by email.

It is already possible to generate an invoice with a print button. It would be great if there was an "email" button there also that would send the invoice to the user.

I don't know 68 code well enough yet to write the code but I'm sure there is someone here who can. I hope it can be done so the mod would work with the designer package.

[Chaslie]

e-x-c-e-l-l-e-n-t!

Well done CIV.

[BigOrange]

I added the following code to my layout.tpl.php file to remind users of unpaid listings anytime they are logged in.

It shows a red menu item "Unpaid Listings" in the Members Options menu if there are unpaid (Not Active) listings. If there are no unpaid listings it doesn't appear in the menu. Clicking on the menu item takes you to userbrowselisting.tpl.php.

      <!-- Mod to display Unpaid Listings menu item. -->      
          {if $entry.display != "Y"}
          <tr>
		<td class="navlist"><img src="images/bullet.gif" width="15" align="top" alt="" /><a href="{$smarty.const.URLS}/userbrowselistings.php"><font color="RED">Unpaid Listings</font></a></td>
	 </tr>
         {/if}          
          <!-- Mod to display Unpaid Listings menu item. -->

This seems to work but will need testing.

[motoenth]

Yes - excellent idea!

[suzkaw]

I just stickied this thread.

Great job!

[civ]

Originally Posted by BigOrange

I couldn't get that to work for me. I'm not sure why. Has anyone else tried it?

I made a slight change to the logic however and it worked fine. Here is what I have that works:

{if $entry.display != "Y"}
       <br /><a href="usercheckout.php?step=6&listingid={$entry.id}" style="font-weight: bold; color: green;">Pay & activate</a>
{/if}

I'm new to 68Classifieds so what I did may have screwed something else up.

Thanks for the mod I see where it can be helpful.

One other thing that would be a real help in getting listings paid for would be a means to email an invoice from the admin panel to users who did not complete the PayPal process or to users who placed a new ad and choose to pay by email.

It is already possible to generate an invoice with a print button. It would be great if there was an "email" button there also that would send the invoice to the user.

I don't know 68 code well enough yet to write the code but I'm sure there is someone here who can. I hope it can be done so the mod would work with the designer package.

I would not recommend checking to see if display is not "Y" - doing so will cause this link to show for expired listings. We already have a Renew link built into 68C for that. "C" in the 'active' db field (in the products table) is what signifies the "Not Completed" status, at least it does in our 3.1.5 version. Check your db and see what that field is populated with for "Not Completed" listings and use that if "C" isn't working for you.

I've wanted a way to email these "Not Complete" people for awhile now too - I may look more into it as it would be a definite revenue-booster.

[BigOrange]

Originally Posted by civ

I would not recommend checking to see if display is not "Y" - doing so will cause this link to show for expired listings. We already have a Renew link built into 68C for that. "C" in the 'active' db field (in the products table) is what signifies the "Not Completed" status, at least it does in our 3.1.5 version. Check your db and see what that field is populated with for "Not Completed" listings and use that if "C" isn't working for you.

I've wanted a way to email these "Not Complete" people for awhile now too - I may look more into it as it would be a definite revenue-booster.

The reason I checked to see if display was NOT "Y" was because if you use "C" it doesn't check for payments not received by check or money order. I wanted users paying by check to to be reminded why their listing has not been made active when they come back on a return visit. I didn't know about the expired listings not being a "Y" but I have tested and you are correct. They also display the red menu item and that would not be acceptable.

Is there a way to include the payers by check other than checking for "Y"? If not I will change back to checking for == "C"

BTW, the original code was functioning properly. I found my mistake.