[Payment] Exclude shopper groups from payment method

[Cameleon]

Hi,

We have on our website several customers assigned to two Shopper groups, and we need to disable some payment method if a shopper have a particular group assigned.

By default we can only assign payment method to shopper groups, but it's not working since these customes have at least one group allowing it.

Is there a way to do this ?

Thanks,

Cam

[AH]

It is working as designed.

You have:-  Shoppers, Shopper groups, Payment methods.

Shopper --> shopper group/s

Payment method --> shopper group/s

You need to give more detail - but here is an example

I have a payment method that is only available for a particular group of people

So I do the following.

Create a shopper group - "Cash on delivery shoppers"

Create a "dummy payment shopper group  - "Cash on delivery group"

Limit the new payment method to the --> "Cash on delivery shoppers"

Assign the shopper group to the shoppers that are allowed to pay "cash on delivery"

Shopper --> assigned to --> "Cash on delivery shoppers"  -->> they get the payment method "cash on delivery"

[Cameleon]

More informations on our groups :

Currently we have 2 main shoppers groups :
- "With VAT"
- "Withou VAT"

These groups are managed with EU VAT CHECKER who automatically move a shopper in one of these groups depending of his country and/or his VAT number, each time a shopper update his personnal informations.

We have several others shoppers group :
- "Distributor 5%"
- "Distributor 10%"
-  etc ...

These groups are assigned manually to a shopper, they should have the following effect :
- x% discount on all products (done  with a price rule)
- Access only to quote as Payment method (invoice and payment are handled with a SAP software)

here the possible combination :
- "With VAT"
- "Withou VAT"
- "With VAT" + "Distributor x%"
- "Withou VAT" + "Distributor x%"

By default, a shopper is in the group "With VAT".

I can't really touch the main Shopper groups, since they are handled with a specific plugin.

I would like to avoid manual assignment of shoppers group, the current website have a database of 25.000 Shoppers.

[AH]

Thanks for the additional information.

You may require some bespoke coding for your requirement.

[Cameleon]

Would you know the function or the class who's managing the available payment method for the current users ?

I've taken a look in my template files, but the variables used return only formated HTML, nothing i could filter.

Thanks.

[AH]

The list of payment plugin methods is determined by this:-

\administrator\components\com_virtuemart\plugins\vmpsplugin.php

Code Select Expand

protected function getPluginMethods

The table - _virtuemart_paymentmethod_shoppergroups

Determines for which shopper groups a payment method is valid.  If no entries in this table - then it is valid for all groups

[Cameleon]

Thanks i'll take a look.