Cheque / Money Order Payment Module

[burt]

My next task is to create some shipping options.

What is that you need to do with shipping ?
I do have an upcoming supporters code that is a shipping module.

[Nigel]

We sell heavy, fragile goods. Any order really needs verbal confirmation.

Ideally it would be that customers simply place their order with no requirement for shipping choices or even payment as that would be part of the confirmation phone call.
A simple delivery please / collection option could work if it means the cart sequence of events needs to be maintained.

After clicking the final checkout completion bar, a simple message saying that the order has been received and we will be in contact shortly . . . blah blah.

Account customers wouldn't really need the callback option either if we hold their details and they have a regular delivery routine.

[heatherbell]

A simple delivery please / collection option could work if it means the cart sequence of events needs to be maintained.

There's more than one way to skin the unfortunate cat but we used to do something similar by simply cloning the Flat Rate.
Clone once for e.g. "Delivery - we will contact you with delivery quote/charge" and set charge to 0.00.
Clone again for "Collection".
Checkout Success message is whatever you set in the language file for that.

[Nigel]

My original plans were for collection, local delivery or courier delivery options.
All would still be via a callback manual card payment system, no online card verification.

The collection and local deliveries would be free. Courier services would probably incur a charge dependant on what they order, quantity and weight.

[Nigel]

A simple delivery please / collection option could work if it means the cart sequence of events needs to be maintained.

There's more than one way to skin the unfortunate cat but we used to do something similar by simply cloning the Flat Rate.
Clone once for e.g. "Delivery - we will contact you with delivery quote/charge" and set charge to 0.00.
Clone again for "Collection".
Checkout Success message is whatever you set in the language file for that.

Yes, this was what I was planning to do.
Then I thought I'd make zones for local, courier, collection so they could work with shipping options but, at 2am, it all started to get a bit blurry !

[ecartz]

Ideally it would be that customers simply place their order with no requirement for shipping choices or even payment as that would be part of the confirmation phone call.

If you want every customer to do this, then rather than trying to implement this as custom shipping/payment modules, I would suggest a hook.

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class hook_shop_checkout__06_initialize_shipping_module {

  public function listen_startApplication {
    if (isset($_SESSION['shipping'], $_SESSION['payment'])) {
      switch (basename($GLOBALS['PHP_SELF'])) {
        case 'checkout_shipping':
        case 'checkout_payment':
          tep_redirect(tep_href_link('checkout_confirmation.php'));
      }
      return;
    }

    $_SESSION['shipping'] = false;
    $_SESSION['sendto'] = false;
    $_SESSION['payment'] = 'money_order';
    if (!isset($_SESSION['billto'])) {
      $_SESSION['billto'] = $GLOBALS['customer']->get('default_billto');
    }

    tep_redirect(tep_href_link('checkout_confirmation.php'));
  }

}

This is just off the top of my head. There might be more to it. Or less. I'm not sure that you need to install a payment module. Setting the payment to an empty string and installing no payment modules might work as well. I haven't tried it.