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Ubercart free order with recurring product

admin — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 20:22:43 +0000

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:

“The UC Free Order Payment Method module works in conjunction with the payment checkout pane using the order total preview to present a “Free order” payment method to customers when their order total drops to $0.00 or less. By default, this method will be hidden with Javascript and displayed only when appropriate. Server side verification of an order total on checkout form submission is used to prevent customers from gaming the system.”

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

Module to remove the address select from Ubercat Checkout

admin — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 04:45:46 +0000

I was recently working on a website where the process required to have the address select drop-down fields not appear on the ubercart checkout page so i wrote this small module.

I saw other people ask how to-do it, so here is your answer.

Remove Ubercart Address Select field

Please let mew know if it helped you.

TreeStone Financial

admin — Wed, 11 May 2011 14:47:19 +0000

About: Helping business owners and their families as well as working families achieve financial security is what we feel passionate about. Many people are unprepared for the challenges they could face in life. Our role is to guide families to the make the decisions that will ensure their financial security and well-being.

URL: http://treestonefinancial.ca/

WhereParentsTalk

admin — Wed, 11 May 2011 14:31:13 +0000

About: We started this little business out of our basements in 2003. Back then, when you said “parenting” and “video” in the same breath, people looked at you like you had two heads! But we soldiered on and produced two award-winning DVDs, Bringing Baby Home, on newborn care and Yummy in my Tummy on starting solids. This was way before YouTube and there were very few similar parenting resources available out there.

Fast-forward to 2010 and we are re-launching our website as WhereParentsTalk.com. The internet is the ultimate reference tool nowadays. WhereParentsTalk was created just for parents craving information, support and a shoulder to cry on. You can have spit up crusted onto your 3-day unwashed pjs, be 30 lbs overweight from breastfeeding and still jump online and find millions of others just like you, willing to offer that much-needed support! That is what WhereParentsTalk strives to be, an amazing parenting resource of articles, recipes, videos, forums, and live chats!

URL: http://whereparentstalk.com/

Davco Janitorial & Food Service Supplies

admin — Wed, 11 May 2011 14:23:27 +0000

About: Davco Supplies, established in 2002, is a full service distributor of janitorial and food service supplies. We pride ourselves on our excellent customer service and ability to respond quickly and efficiently to your needs. We maintain an excellent inventory of chemicals, floor equipment, name brand chemicals and many fine brands of supplies and tools to make housekeeping efficient and more effective. In essence, we can provide you with the maintenance supplies and knowledge you need for the care of your building.

URL: http://davcosupplies.com/

Don Valley DFSIN Branch

admin — Wed, 11 May 2011 06:09:56 +0000

About: The Desjardins Financial Security Independent Network (DFSIN) – Don Valley Financial Centre is part of the Desjardins Financial Security Independent Network. Our office and all our or associate financial services representatives have the strength and support of the Network, while being able to respond creatively and personally to the needs of the community we serve.

URL: http://donvalleydfsin.com/

Amaravati

admin — Wed, 11 May 2011 06:03:40 +0000

About: Amaravati is a collection of botanically based organic/vegan bath and body products. Each product is uniquely designed by founder Lise Lapierre, a homeopathic practitioner and certified Aromatherapist. Through the combination of carefully selected organic ingredients from around the world and utilizing 100% therapeutic grade essential oils, Amaravati is the beauty of divine wellness. Welcome to your age of skin enlightenment.

URL: http://amaravati.ca/

Faith and Science

admin — Wed, 11 May 2011 05:42:02 +0000

About: Dr. Arnie Gotfryd, Ph.D. is an observant Jew and an accomplished environmental scientist. His informative and inspiring presentations are peppered with personal anecdotes, new discoveries, and fresh insights into old-time religion.

URL: http://arniegotfryd.com/

From Joomla 1.0 to WordPress 3.1

admin — Wed, 11 May 2011 04:44:12 +0000

I recently had a client who had an Joomla website with hundreds of posts. He had a couple of problems with his old website:

The site was loading very slow or not loading at all some times
Website flexibility was an issue
the person hired to maintain and to-do all the updates had a hard time working with very not intuitive Joomla

The client made a decision that its time to migrate site to some other CMS (content management system). The question became which would it be Drupal or WordPress. So we sat down and looked at his current site (whatever we were able to see, since part of the loading issue was the template we had to temporally switch to a different template). Here is a short list of stuff we looked at (and thoughts):

The site had a few hundred articles (need an automatic importer)
The articles are to the most part text with some image in the middle (WordPress could do it)
Though the articles are broken down into categories the layout to display them is identical (Would be easier to replicate with Drupal, but does the client actually care about this or would he not care to have all of them look the same)

As you probably guessed we went for the WordPress in this case. We started looking for a migration/importer solution to bring over the old content, but we hit a roadblock, there was an importer from Joomla 1.5 to WordPress 3, (to make it work would need to update the joomla first) and there was one for Joomla 1.0 to wordpress 2.3 (to make this work will need to install an old version of wordpress import and then upgrade or export as wordress to wordpress). Since i wasn’t in the mood of updating an already broken Joomla site. I decided to use the second script Joomla to WordPress Import Wizard.

So here are the steps we took.

Install a new wordpress 3.0 on a sub-domain ”New”
Install wordpress 2.3 on sub-domain ”temp”
upload the importer/migration script to “import” folder
create all the Post categories corresponding to the old site in the temporary wordpress install
run the import script to import the content one category at a time
Clean up (move the contents of “new” sub-domain to the main public_html/www folder, delete unnecessary temp sub-domain and import folder)
Enjoy the new site

The whole process including theme customization took approximatively 15 Hours. And here is a link to the new website http://arniegotfryd.com. Any comments or questions?

Virtual Merchant – Ubercart/Drupal Integration

admin — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 16:21:43 +0000

I have recently had a client who already has a Drupal/Ubercart powered e-commerce website. The client though had an issue, the current payment processor only had an offsite processing for credit cards which meant that the client was using some percentage of potential customers because of an extra step in the checkout process.

We started looking for a new payment processor, and there are a few options we were looking at, Virtual Merchant was one of them. So we started looking if they are compatible with Ubercart. And to my surprise there was even no mention of either Drupal or Ubercart in the list of supported shopping carts.

So if you are (like we were not so long ago) looking if Virtual Merchant is compatible with Ubercart, serach no longer, you have found the answer, YES THEY ARE.

If you need help with integration Virtual Merchant or any other payment processor into a Drupal / Ubercart website, we certainly could help you.

P.S. here is the link to the Virtual Merchant Drupal module https://drupal.org/project/virtualmerchant