Ubercart in-checkout orders from the same user - drupal

This is related to Drupal 6 & Ubercart...
Is it safe to erase in-checkout orders from a user, except from the last in-checkout order?
The problem is that a user can create multiple orders with "in checkout" status, and it could be confusing for an administrator look multiple orders from the same user. Moreover, the user can only see his last in-checkout order, the rest in-checkout orders are lost... (or not?)
I think a user will never see past in-checkout orders... If a user generates a new order then pasts orders from him should be erased...? Seeing these orders in the history could generate confusion.
Is it safe to delete past in-checkout orders from the same user?

might be a solution.
After hours of head banging, I had to hack the core ubercart drupal module. I dont know why but the ubercart uc_cart.module unsets the order session everytime the ubercart checkout page is loaded. Hence when the page is loaded or any validation error is there on the checkout page, a new order id is created for preventing the identity theft(which i have no clue what it is).
Coming back to my point. I just commented out the line 142 and 150 in uc_cart.pages.inc of ubercart.
eg:- unset($_SESSION['cart_order']);
I m in drupal 6 ubercart
Now since the cart order is not unset hence there are no multiple in checkout status order created. Seems to be working fine for now. I know that hacking core ubercart module is not good, but i couldn't fine any other solution for this. Please do reply if it will cause any future error.
Thank you.

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Is it possible (error?) that woocommerce automatically deletes a product from an old order?

I deleted products from the shop and emptied the trash (not me, but the automatic function in woocommerce). Then products DISAPPEARED from some orders! Not all products, only 1-1 products were deleted by the system from some orders.
These are old orders, but the time between the order and execution is long, so the order data is needed for a long time. These are not yet fulfilled orders, they are in custom status.
Fortunately, I have regular backups, so I was able to view the original state and put the product back again.
BUT I have a lot of orders and now I'm afraid that the phenomenon will happen again.
Have you ever heard of this? Is there such a built-in feature in woocommerce?
I looked for similar cases online, but couldn't find any. I hope someone knows what caused this to me.

Google analytics - last tracking causes previous tracking records to change

We set up enhanced ecommerce tracking for our shop where we among other things track payment method for each order. In our shop, as a customer, I completed two orders with visa payment option, which can be seen in GA:
Two orders created with visa option, all fine (don't mind the duplicate records for now).
But then I create a third order in our shop with sofort banking (just another payment option) and look how things change:
All order payment methods were changed to sofort banking. Of course I've tried hard reload to see if caching is not involved and even waited a day to see if it changes anything but no, the records stay with sofort banking.
Now we come to the second problem - the duplication. For some reason when I filter with Secondary dimension: Checkout Options (as can be seen on the pics) I get for each tracked order 2 records in the table. Those two problems might be somehow connected.
The question is: Does anyone have an experience with this and knows where the problem might be? If you need additional info please let me know, as of now I don't know in which direction to elaborate.

Woocommerce checkout process creating new order at payment

I'm having a problem with WordPress/Woocommerce creating a second order for customers. This is leading to a couple issues that I'll outline below. Here is the process I am following:
Create and populate new Woocommerce Subscription object
Create new renewal order (this will be ID 1033 below) and send invoice to customer
Customer logs in and finds the pending order in My Account page
Customer opens the pending order and it is populated with the correct products and price. Customer pays the correct amount
After payment, customer is on the receipt screen but it is for a new order. The old order is still sitting on their account as pending.
After looking at the access log, I can see this:
Here is the entry link (pre-payment): /checkout/order-pay/1033
And here is the review link (post-payment): /checkout/order-received/1055
The problems I am encountering are:
I have tested completing payments more than dozen times and was only able to replicate it the first time. I have followed those same steps as much as possible to no avail (all other transactions are processing as expected without creating extra orders)
The initial order is connected to a subscription, and upon completed payment the subscription is set to automatic payments. This issue of having a new order is detaching it, and automatic payments cannot be enabled until after the next payment is processed (a month later), and will rely on the customer manually submitting the order again.
Does anyone have any idea why WordPress/Woocommerce is creating a second order upon payment.
I was having the same issue with renewal payments getting applied to a new order. In my case, I was consistently having this issue with manually added subscriptions, as well as with imported subscriptions.
After working with Woocommerce Subscriptions Support, they came out with an update (version 2.1.0) solving the issue for me. Their change log references the fix.
Fix: Do not create new orders when processing a renewal and resubscribe payment with different details to the original order by ensuring the cart hash used by WooCommerce is updated when creating the order. (PR#1687)
Try updating Woocommerce Subscriptions to version 2.1.0.

Need some hints for my own WP Theme

After taking some online tutorials I am willing to create my own custom theme for my myself. This is going to be an online Contact Lense store! So far I have learned how to generate and use Custom Post Types, Custom Taxonamyies, Metaboxes , and Option pages.but there is still one confusing part left for me(hopefully not more! :-))
I need to get some user inputs through HTML Select Options like following image to finalize the users orders:
Now my question is:
1- Do I have to create some thing lik Metaboxes to manipulate these data from users?
2- can I handle these kind of data through simple Form ans Post function in PHP? If so where should I store these data? Do I have to create a table on my own to handle these things?
I really appreciate your time regrading this post,
What you're asking for carries a little more complexity than you think!
Let's break this down into its meaningful steps:
A user visits your shop, and decides that they like what they see and wants to make an order
The user fills out a form defining their exact eye requirements, quantity, as well as their contact information
Upon completing this form, a new order has been created
But wait.... how will you get paid? What happens if the user's computer explodes before the payment goes through? How will you know to send them their contacts without first knowing the payment even succeeded?
This is where things start to get tricky. You need to be able to keep a record of orders for the sake of your users, but you also need to look out for your own interests too. Your business is doomed to fail if you're sending out expensive products to people without the proper assurance that you're getting paid.
This is where you'll need to set up a Merchant Account with a service like PayPal or Google Checkout. As much as I despise PayPal, their Instant Payment Notification (IPN) System has been very reliable for me. What this does is automatically send a POST request to your server with all of the information you need to finalize the checkout process and alert your user that their payment has either succeeded or failed.
So with this in mind, how does this affect our step-by-step process?
A user visits your shop, and decides that they like what they see and wants to make an order
The user fills out a form defining their exact eye requirements, quantity, as well as their contact information
Upon completing this form, a new order has been created with a status of pending
The user is then sent to PayPal/Google Checkout to enter their Credit Card information to complete their purchase
PayPal/Google processes the payment
PayPal/Google sends your server the results of the processed payment
The corresponding order is updated with a status of Payment Received or Payment Failed for your own records
You send out the product to a very satisfied customer
So what will this mean from a Wordpress standpoint?
My first suggestion:
Check if a Plugin already exists that can handle this for you!!!
Seriously, this will make your life much easier. Handling people's money as well as your own stock is a nightmare all in itself, you don't want to be responsible for handling the code that drives it, or the possibility of security holes that you might not know about (that other plugins may have already addressed). WooCommerce is a popular one. See if that can handle what you need.
If a Plugin can't do it for you, then you'll need to:
Register a Custom Post Type for Orders
Create a new Order Post using wp_insert_post when a user submits the form with their POST data
Save the relevant POST data you need as metadata using update_post_meta
Send PayPal/Google/Whatever some Custom Information it needs to hang on to - in this case, the newly created Order Post ID - so that it can send it back to your own server
Set up a side-script to process the data sent by PayPal/Google Checkout/Whatever and send an email to the user detailing the status of their purchase and update the corresponding Order Post ID that was sent back by PayPal/Google Checkout/Whatever
(Optional) Set up a CRON Job to periodically scan all Pending orders in case a user's session was interrupted, or they bailed at the last second during checkout and send them an email notifying them about this and provide them a link to your website to reopen, reevaluate, and resend the order, or cancel and clear it from your database
Quite honestly, this would take even a seasoned Developer at least a few weeks worth of work just to get it in working condition. Presentation is a whole different animal.
Hopefully this will give you a step in the right direction. I doubt anybody here will give you the code to do what you need, because there's just too much to post. Entire libraries are built just for these kinds of things.
Good luck!

DotNetNuke Cart

Does anyone with DotNetNuke have experience with downloadable content with a shopping cart?
There is a client using CatalooK as their shopping cart. They sell user manuals for a range of car models (one car has multiple user manuals in different languages) but did some test and this is we found so far:
If we have all the downloadable manuals users in the ‘All Users’ role will have access to all the downloadable content by anyone
When a user registers (either from the Login page, or through purchasing a product from the cart), a user account is automatically created for them and are assigned the role as ‘Registered Users’. This solves the problem of having all users access to the content – can just change the permission for the downloadable items to only display for 'Registered User' only
However, anyone can register themselves on the website and automatically be assigned a ‘Registered Users’ role, therefore getting access to the manuals without having paid for them
A step further would be to require the manual adding of user accounts to a new role called ‘Downloads’ which would be the only users within the 'Downloads’ role to have access to the downloadable manuals
Problem here is, if a user purchases 1 downloadable item and they are added to the ‘Downloads’ role, they will also be given access to all of the other downloadable manuals – as they are in the same role
So I guess the workable solution would be to create a new role for every car model to allow people in each car model role access to the downloads – which would also mean manually adding the role of every group purchased to that user’s accounts.
Anyone have any experience or alternatives to this to make it more automated and secure?
Basically no body has access to the downloads unless you have purchased the products.
Upon purchasing some shopping carts send you an email with a unique link to the downloadable so they can access it that way. In your situation you also want them to be able to see the documents on the site at anytime after purchasing them, which makes sense.
Catalook has a 'Your Orders' module, does that show you the document or electronic item you purchased? That might be an option.
But worst case, I guess you can implement your 1 role per product. Sounds like a lot of work though! Or, do some custom :]coding.
Based on your situation the cart I use the most DNNspot (mine) - it would be similar to Catalook. Where you would need to create a role per product. Or use the orders module to show your previous orders which would link to your document you bought.
How good is your SQL? You could use the core DNN 'reports module' If you analyze the database and orders table - with a little bit of SQL you could setup a custom Report and maybe solve this.
This is very interesting an challenging. probably, this is not supported by catalook store module by default. If you are looking to implement a new simple module, there are some simple solutions to this.
Using personalization: you can use dnn's personalization provider to store user products. initially empty, and as user purchases the products, you can add comma separated list of productid to maintain it smartly. check that values back to validate downloads
Using custom user profile property and use it in same way as [1] above
Email option suggested by #Ryan is good option when you want to allow users to download manually only via email links. But again, you will still need to validate if a user is allowed to download that product or not that you can achieve via the above suggestions.
Let me know if you need more help with this, I have good experience to deal with catalook specific small modules for such extensions.
Happy coding

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