Ubercart free order with recurring product
In working on a recent project we encountered a problem. The client wanted the ubercart to have certain functions, namely:
- Recurring billing
- Coupon codes up to and including 100% off
No rocket science right? It wasn’t that easy to make it work though, we needed three modules:
You probably understand the need for the first two, but why do we need the last one? When you shop online and are told you are getting a 100% coupon, and then on the last step of checkout are asked for Credit card details, it sure looks suspicious, and could turn away a lot of customers. The solution to that is to tell Ubercart that when order total is less the one cent, there is a different payment method that is to replace the credit card method. This is where this module comes in. Here is how the module creator summarized it:
And it does work great, except when you have a recurring item in the cart, at which point Ubercart acts confused, on one side it has the free order method saying that since you have a $0 order you should use the “free payment method”, on the other end is the recurring payment module saying since this order has recurring product, you should use one of the payment methods (like paypal wps) that support recurring billing. The solution we came up with was to extend the free payment method to support the recurring billing. You could download the extended version of this module bellow.
The development was sponsored by Levia IT. The developers who worked on this are:
- David Adler from www.binahsoft.com
- Nathan Bomshteyn from bomshteyn.com
Free Order plus Recurring billing
