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Donations
The donations feature introduced
in version 5.6.0 allows customers to introduce an amount of
their choice and then go through checkout to send the funds on
to the store owner. This is typically used if you want accept
donations on the store or if you need customers to pay for a service.
Setting up the donations page
ASP Version: Save products.asp as donations.asp
and then in code view find the line
<!--#include file="vsadmin/inc/incproducts.asp"-->
and change it to
<% explicitid="donation" %>
<!--#include
file= "vsadmin/inc/incspecials.asp"-->
Upload to your server and make sure it is working as it
should.
If you don't want to set up your own donations page
then you can just add a link in your menu to proddetail.asp?prod=donation
and that will show the donations page.
PHP Version: Save products.php as donations.php
and then in code view find the line
<?php include "vsadmin/inc/incproducts.php"?>
and change it to
<?php
$explicitid="donation";
?>
<?php include "vsadmin/inc/incspecials.php" ?>
Upload to your server and make sure it is working as it
should.
If you don't want to set up your own donation page
then you can just add a link in your menu to proddetail.php?prod=donation
and that will show the donations page.
How
it works
Once the customer has filled out the form shown above they
will be taken to checkout as they would with a regular product.
After checking out the customer and the store owner will receive
confirmation emails and the payment will be posted to the admin
orders page.
Using the donations page as a general payment method
It may be that you need to use the donations
feature for other purposes such as receiving payments
for extra shipping, add-ons, custom services etc. If
that is the case you probably won't want the word "donations"
to appear anywhere in the order process. Setting up
the donations to receive general payments is quite
simple.
Open vsadmin/inc/languagefile.asp or .php and
change the following two entries
xxDonat="Direct Payment"
xxMakDon= "Make
A Direct Payment"
$xxDonat="Direct Payment";
$xxMakDon= "Make A Direct Payment";
Now open donations.asp and
add the following
<%
prodid="payments"
%>
before
<!--#include file="vsadmin/inc/incspecials.asp"-->
For the PHP version, that would be
<?php
$prodid="payments";
?>
before
<?php include "vsadmin/inc/incspecials.php" ?>
Finally in vsadmin/includes.asp add
donationid="payments"
or for vsadmin/includes.php
$donationid="payments";
Once you have set up the donations page as set
out above, you should have a donations page looking like
this
... and when added to cart you
will see a summary of the payment
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