Viart Shop

It is often the case that the shop owner would rather handle payments than using an external payment system. Some reasons might include the following:

• You want to decide the means of charging a customer yourself;
• You want your customers pay with a check or postal order;
• You want to use the COD (cash on delivery) payment method.

In this case, what you require is a non-real time payment system which lets you to accept orders and handle all money issues manually. ViArt Shop allows this by means of a Personal Payment System.

Please go to Administration > Sales Orders > Payment Systems. The first system in the list is Personal.

The process of setting up a personal payment system is almost the same as for any other system. It consists of the following steps:

• Edit System (see section 4.2.1.1)
• Payment Details Page (see section 4.2.1.2)
• Final Checkout Page (see section 4.2.1.3)

The only difference with a Personal Payment System is that you might not need any special scripts to send or receive data from any external payment systems. Therefore you can leave the corresponding fields blank.

How to make a Personal system advanced so it can work with call centre orders without requesting credit card details

1. Create an empty file (you can use Notepad for this) and save it like: money_order.php.
2. Put this file to the 'payments' folder of your shop.
3. Go to Administration > Orders > Payment System, select Personal Payment system and click the 'Edit System' link.
4. Specify 'order_confirmation.php' in the Payment URL.
5. Go to the Advanced Parameters Section, tick off 'Is Advanced' option and specify 'payments/money_order.php' in both 'Advanced Library' and 'Advanced URL' fields.
6. Scroll the page up and tick off 'Use for Call Center' option.
7. Save the changes by pressing the 'Update' button.
8. Now go to Call Centre Orders and create a test order.