minimum price for credit card payments

-- HikaShop version -- : Business 2.2.2

Hello, we have implemented Hikashop into our site and its all good so we put it live, then came across a problem with our credit card payment provider. They have a minimum transaction limit of $1.

Is there a way we can restrict the payment method to orders over $1?
I looked at the "restrictions" within the payment plugin but it doesn't have a price restriction as an option. Ideally the solution would be:
IF Cart Total (incl shipping and GST) is less than $1, make cart total = $1

BUT I have no idea if this is possible? If it is, please show me where and how.

Thanks

Hi,
If you really want an order price bigger than $1, I think that the easiest solution will probably be to :
- Create 2 credit card payment
- One with the "price" option set to 1 and the "Maximum price" option to 0.99
- And one with the "Minimum price" option set to $1

So, if your order price is less than $1, you'll have a "payment fee" so that you can use the credit card payment as you wanted to.

Thanks for the suggestion. Although it seems my credit card plugin (SwipeHQ) doesn't have the minimum/maximum price restriction, I'll see about adding it based on the Hikashop Credit Card plugin and will let you know if it works the way we want it to.

Thanks again.

ok, can't figure out how to add those options. Although I quickly played with the system Hikashop Credit Card Plugin with the options you suggested and it didn't seem to work. Is it easy to add a minimum and maximum restriction option to the Swipe plugin, that way I could try it and see if its suitable...

You should have that option through your credit cart payment configuration page ("Hikashop->System->Payment methods->YourCreditCardPaymentMethod").

unfortunately we don't. The SwipeHQ plugin is provided by our payment gateway provider, it seems they didn't put the min and max price restriction in.

Mohamed Thelji wrote: Hi,
If you really want an order price bigger than $1, I think that the easiest solution will probably be to :
- Create 2 credit card payment
- One with the "price" option set to 1 and the "Maximum price" option to 0.99
- And one with the "Minimum price" option set to $1

So, if your order price is less than $1, you'll have a "payment fee" so that you can use the credit card payment as you wanted to.

Ok so you should do it with your shipping method .

Thanks, I tried that but it didn't really suit us because we only need it to apply if they select Credit card as the payment, if they choose Bank Transfer, it is not required to be $1. I have managed to alter the credit card plugin with an IF statement. If transaction less than $1, make transaction = $1. Only downside to that is it won't match the Hikashop sale amount, should be ok though as I don't see this issue happening very often.

Thanks for your suggestions as always much appreciated.