Probably a stupic question...

Hi,
How do you send the actual invoice to the customer? Does this happen automatically, when the order status is changed?
I couldn´t find anything in the documentation.

Thank you

Hi,

When the order status is confirmed, the order status notification email is sent.
The invoice can be printed at any time in the backend.
On the order details page, the invoice can be printed via the "print" button by the user once the status of the order is confirmed if you turn on the "Allow users to print invoices on the front end" of the configuration.

If you want users to get an invoice PDF enclosed in the order status notification email, you will have to use the PDF invoice plugin :
www.hikashop.com/en/component/hikashop/product/cid-18.html

the avaibility of pdf plug in is not easy to find in hikashop website. The hikashop menu item of name Hikashop show this day only 6 sub menu items (essential , business,HikaSerial,Style for hikashop,HikaMarket frontend, hikamarket multi vendor) . Is there others plug in like hikashop pdf plugin hidden in hikashop website ?

The plug in say nothing to configure, is there a way to customize the input ( override) like merge mail in word ?

There are several other plugins which are not included in the main products which you can find on the main documentation page of HikaShop under the payment plugins, shipping plugins and other integration sections. The PDF invoice plugin is the first one of the "other integration" section.

I'm sorry but I didn't understand your last sentence. Please reformulate.

Ah, that´s how it works...
Really beautiful that customers can print their own Invoice.

Thanks again Nicolas:-)

i think that the pdf is create using text before a converter take the text and convert it to pdf .
most of the case the text must be compatible with the converter.

I think we must be able to modify the text to add dynamic information ( data store in mysql table) and not only static text.

In a way i think the pdf contain already dynamic tag like the name of the web site , the number of order , the date when buy occur . I don't think having the same pdf ( formt style information language ) for all hikashopp buyer is efficient.

All people use hikashop but they an custom code ( style/template , behaviour, pdf content with they logo ).I think it is the same for a hikashop pdf extension

i don't know more , even alredy use pdf convert like fop xml xslt ...
I don t buy the pdf extension so i can't test the options
I find the information in hikashop documentation about this pdf extension is not enough ...


regard's

If you want to modify the PDF invoice, you can edit the file plugins/hikashop/attachinvoice/attachinvoice/invoice.php directly once you install the PDF invoice.

The code in there is quite similar to the code that you will find in the file "invoice" of the view "order" via the menu Display->Views for HTML invoices.

Is it possible to make a template override? So when there's an update f.e. I don't loose my changes.

I tried template/html/plugins/invoice.php but that does not work.

Hi,

For the PDF invoice, the override should stored in the "media/com_hikashop/plugins/invoice.php" file.

Regards,

Jerome wrote: Hi,

For the PDF invoice, the override should stored in the "media/com_hikashop/plugins/invoice.php" file.

Regards,

Strange,

This is not working for me. Also tried media/com_hikashop/plugins/attachinvoice/invoice.php
Both are not working.

There is no need to make an override. As the plugin is not included in HikaShop, it won't be updated automatically when you update HikaShop. And there shouldn't be any need to update it manually.
However, the override path that Jerome gave you is the correct one. That was not always possible so maye you're using an old version of the plugin which doesn't support the override ?

nicolas wrote: There is no need to make an override. As the plugin is not included in HikaShop, it won't be updated automatically when you update HikaShop. And there shouldn't be any need to update it manually.
However, the override path that Jerome gave you is the correct one. That was not always possible so maye you're using an old version of the plugin which doesn't support the override ?

I guess I use the last one, I bought it 2 days ago.
But if this plugin is rarely updated I will use the original files (back them up first) to change to my liking.

P.s. About the override, I assume thats in the template folder, and then:
"html/media/com_hikashop/plugins/invoice.php"

Hi,

The override starts in the "media" folder, not in the "html" one.
If so, it was specified "html/media" when I gave you the path.

Regards,

Jerome wrote: Hi,

The override starts in the "media" folder, not in the "html" one.
If so, it was specified "html/media" when I gave you the path.

Regards,

Thanks,

My fault. I assumed overrides where always in template folder. Now it's working. Thanks a lot. Very helpfull.

I don't understand html/media location .
Can you be more explicit how override work in this case ( could you give the 2 paths starting from root joomla server start target )

thank's

It's very clear.
It's your Joomla root folder, and then:
media/com_hikashop/plugins/attachinvoice/invoice.php
and
media/com_hikashop/plugins/attachinvoice/attachinvoice.php
Works like a charm

You have to probably create the plugins folder.