Offering products for free

[desquinn]

We have a charity using virtuemart and they sell products which is all going well. They have a minimum proce band to cover paypal. However the charity also gives out free resources like booklets and flyers that they would like to be in virtuemart so that all stock control and such can be done in the one place and order tracking as well.

Is there a away that we can list these resources for free and "sell" them through the shop without tripping the minimum price restriction for paypal? Any other way of achieving the same objective?

thanks in advance for any help.

[GJC Web Design]

doesn't the paypal setting "Minimum Amount" achieve this?

If the free products have a 0 price set that to 0.01

[desquinn]

that's the setting we are using at the moment to ensure that small transactions do not go through paypal. There is in effect a sitewide minimum purchase amount of £3 IIRC. Above that paypal becomes an option to checkout with. However we only have paypal and a support group checkout payment option triggering at £10. However may have been having a bit of logic blindness and wondering if I can setup up a payment provider for free items only that trips on £0.00 to £0.01 as the min and max amounts and then this would show up on free items.

However there is an untidy situation when they order say 50 free booklets and an awareness band at £1.50. Anyway to handle this or make it a bit cleaner?

[GJC Web Design]

short answer  - yes - use the payment method -> Standard - set to the 0.01 max and label it "no payment " or what ever