Product Donations

[peter69]

Hello!

I would like to know if it is possible to add a "Donate products" feature.

The idea is as follows, in the store there can be a button called "Donate". By clicking on the button customers will be redirected to a page listing products that have been enabled to be donated. In the checkout process the delivery function should be disabled (only debit card payment should be enabled).

The donated products will be delivered to needy families.

This is something that can be done in Aimeos?, I have some ideas to implement in the code but I would like to know your opinion about it.

Thank you very much for your help,

Best regards!

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laravel: 9.2
aimeos-laravel: ~2022.04
PHP: 8.1.6
Environment: Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS

[aimeos]

You should put all products which can be donated in one category. When the customer has added one of these products to the basket and enters the checkout process, you can use the "Category" service decorator to

a) hide all shipping options besides the one for "delivery to families"
b) show only credit card as payment option

Here's the documentation for the service decorator:
https://aimeos.org/docs/latest/manual/s ... /#category

[peter69]

Hello, thank you very much for your support.

In this case all products will be available for donation.

Therefore, I should probably just add an option in the checkout process called "donate" or "delivery to families".

What do you think about this approach?

Regards,

[aimeos]

Yes, a shipping option "Donate" will be enough.

[peter69]

Thank you very much!!!

[peter69]

Hello,

I have created a product called "Donation", the idea is that customers can donate the amount of money they want. Therefore to this product I have created I have enabled the option "Allow custom price".

On the product page, there is a "custom price" field, but there is no option to add to cart.

What can I do or is there some part of the product creation that I have not yet configured?

[aimeos]

Check if you have added a stock entry. You need one but the stock level can be empty so it will have unlimited stock.

[peter69]

Hi Sir,

It only works if the product has been added/associated with at least one category.

Regards,

[peter69]

Hello Aimeos,

I have created a service delivery called: "Delivery to families in need" to which I have assigned the provider I have created which is called: DeliveryToFamilies.

For this service delivery, I assigned the decorator that you recommended me to use: Category (in which I added the category "donation" in the option: category.include). However, when I try to perform the checkout process I get a Mariadb error:

[aimeos]

Can you share your error ("Share" button at the top)?