Instalment Payments only for certain products

-- url of the page with the problem -- : livelifeyou.com
-- HikaShop version -- : 2.3.0
-- Joomla version -- : 3.2.3
-- PHP version -- : 5.4.38
-- Browser(s) name and version -- : Safari, Chrome, Firefox

I have setup instalments payments (together with Akeeba subscriptions) a while ago. At that time it allowed all products to have the instalment payments.

Now there is another category of products which are downloadable and since the price is small, we would not want to have any instalment payments offered. But at the moment they get the option on the checkout to do a normal payment as well as instalments.

I have assigned the BLOCK option (see screen) but it still does not work:



Thank you.

A solution can be to restrict your product to a shipping method, and then to restrict your payment method to that shipping method by using the "Shipping method" option of your Payment method configuration page.

How would I do this?

I thought this was done on the product page. I do have 2 shipping methods already as you can see on the screen shot.

I tick BLOCK on the shipping method that does not apply to the product (see screen shot) and I have two different shipping options that I refer to in the different paying options



but when it comes to checking out I still have 2 choices of payments available.

Hi,

Once restriction done for the shippings for the products, in the payment method settings do you have restricted it to the desired shipping method ?

Yes, I have...

Paypal recurring Instalment payment


Normal Paypal Payment

Hi,

I've checked on our end but the PayPal recurring payment plugin uses our old payment API which doesn't support restrictions.
So it's normal that it doesn't work.
It will require a rewrite of the PayPal recurring payment plugin so that it can use the new API for that to work properly.

Thank you for your reply.

I just need clarify ... it did use to work when I first set it up.

Question: If Hikashop would be updated to the latest version. Would it then work? Is that what you are saying or is there some work involved anyway no matter if it is updated?

Hi,

I don't see how it could have worked before and I don't think that updating HikaShop will help.
The problem is with the PayPal recurring payment plugin code which is not meant to support that capability of restricting payment methods to shipping methods.

I found the solution, it works ....

The SHIPPING and the PAYMENT section at the check out need to be on different pages.



Then the instalment payment is filtered out and only the normal payment is visible.

That works for me .... thanks.