Allow dealers to place order without payment

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I have Hikashop Business Ed.

I have pricing set up for retail customers and for dealers (dealers user group). I would like to allow dealers to place their orders without figuring shipping and then be able to bill the dealer, with shipping included, based on the quantities of their order. I can bill them manually if need be. I just want them to be able to submit the order (products and quantities) based on the dealer price and then we can bill them the total, including the shipping charges. Once they pay, then we can ship.

I was thinking we could have the order in a pending status until we bill them and they pay, then we could confirm the order. Is this possible and how can I accomplish this? I have not found this in the forum, but I may have missed it somehow.

I want my retail customers to order and pay online, but I need to figure shipping manually for the dealers, based on the quantities of their order.

Thanks for any help!

Hi,

Basically you can create many shipping and payment methods.
Then just play with the restrictions, some payment method restricted for the retail customers and another one for the dealers.

The one for the dealers can be, for example, check. Edit the descriptions part of this payment method to what you need.
This way the order will stay in a pending status, and the retail customers can buy online and confirm their orders thanks to the other payment methods.

For the shippings, same thing, restrict the common shipping methods to the retailers, and create a new one for the dealers only with a fee of $0 and a description to explain that they will be calculated later.

The orders can then be edited manually via the backend, so shipping fees can be changed and the status too.

I hop it's clear enough to help you in this configuration.

Thank you for the information! I was able to get things working correctly today and I learned a lot in the process!

Your help is greatly appreciated!