[ic] rounding customers total up as a contribution

Glenn McCalley glenn at bnetmd.net
Mon Aug 10 19:07:45 UTC 2009


Sounds like you've been there Carl, many thanks for the pointers.  I'll have 
at it.
If you do a lot of political work, drop a note off-list?  Might be fun to 
compare notes.
Thanks again,
Glenn.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Carl Bailey" <carl at endpoint.com>
To: <interchange-users at icdevgroup.org>
Sent: Monday, August 10, 2009 2:55 PM
Subject: Re: [ic] rounding customers total up as a contribution


>
> On Aug 10, 2009, at 2:39 PM, Glenn McCalley wrote:
>
>> Hi list,
>>
>> We are doing a store for a political campaign.  They want to offer,
>> on the
>> checkout page, the chance to round your total up to a next step with
>> the
>> additional money being a contribution.  For example:
>> "Your total is $22.50.  Would you like to add $2.50 as a contribution,
>> bringing your total to $25.00?"... with a button to click which adds
>> the
>> cart item "Contribution" at $2.50 and re-calcs everything.
>>
>> Of course if the total is $44.00 the prompt should be for $6.00 more
>> to a
>> total of $50.00.  A step table will have to be determined, but you
>> get the
>> idea.  Thousands of small contributions add up.
>>
>> Anybody ever done anything like this?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Glenn.
>
>
> Glenn,
>
> When the customer clicks to "round-up" you want a form action
> (mv_click) that adds a new item to the cart (sku ="contrib").  Set the
> item to have mv_price equal to the roundup amount.  Then change your
> CommonAdjust setting in catalog.cfg to honor mv_price first if
> present.  If the contribution sku is already present in the cart, then
> don't display the offer to round up.  Be sure to flag the contribution
> sku as non-taxable.  Check your shipping calculation.  If it is priced
> base, you don't want to increase shipping because of the
> contribution.  If weight-based, set the weight of the contribution sku
> to zero.
>
> On the business/legal side, check to make sure there are no issues
> with co-mingling of funds between the normal store purchases and
> contributions, esp. if they all flow into a single bank account.
>
> Carl
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