[ic] Re: Credit card surcharge on Checkout.html

[interchange-users@icdevgroup.org (Jonathan Clark)]

> >Most credit card merchant agreements include specific provisions that
> >prohibit surcharges or extra fees or price tiers based on the
> use of their
> >credit card.
>
> >>It's true.  However, they do allow you to increase *all* of your product
> >>prices by 4.1%, and then offer a 4.1% discount for cash items.
>
> Half the retailers in the UK are breaking their agreements then by issuing
> minimum spend levels or incur a surcharge? For example Travel Agents who
> charge a surcharge for cc use when you book a flight/holiday. I will read
> into my Merchant Agreement. But taking Dans' comments into the equation
> then, I blanket increase all my item prices by my cc surcharge
> then use the
> following at the top of ord/checkout.html?
>
>
>  [if value mv_payment eq credit]
>         [discount ALL_ITEMS] $s * 1.00 [/discount]
>  [else]
>  [if value mv_payment eq po]
>        [discount ALL_ITEMS] $s * 0.959 [/discount]
>  [/else]
>  [/if]

Almost. remove the [if value mv_payment eq po] thats within the [else]
section. If you wanted to do [else][if] (which you don't here) then you
would use [elsif value mv_payment eq po]

> >> ...don't forget to reset the discount at the bottom of receipt.html:
> >>
> >>         [discount ALL_ITEMS][/discount]
>
> May I ask why i need this tag in reciept.html?

Using ALL_ITEMS for discount will change the price of all items on all pages
in your catalogue. I suppose this is a way of stopping the change from
persisting following checking out.

Rather than use ALL_ITEMS, you could use ENTIRE_ORDER which would stop the
adjustments globally.

But then, the best solution really is the one Racke proposed using [assign]
to set a handling charge.

Jonathan
Webmaint.