Can a customer save their cart to an invoice?

Question

We have a client whose shipping needs are complicated enough that they currently only allow checkout for customers with their own shipping accounts. They would like to be able to open up their checkout process to allow purchases where the customer may not have their own shipping account.

I don't have any experience with CartThrob Invoice, which seems like it may make it possible for our client to create an invoice and add their own shipping cost. But would it be possible for a customer to somehow save their order as an invoice? Or maybe use the Save Order payment gateway, and then convert that saved order into an invoice so the shipping could be updated?

Answer 1

Thanks for providing the information in the comment above. Unfortunately I don't think there's a built-in way to programmatically do this. However, the exp_cartthrob_invoice_table is pretty straightforward. You should consider an extension that fires after an order is placed (potentially via the "offline payments" or "Save Order" gateways) that takes their info and INSERTs a row into exp_cartthrob_invoice_table.

Here's the structure of that table:

CREATE TABLE `exp_cartthrob_invoice_table` (
  `id` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `inv_description` text,
  `inv_title` text,
  `inv_line_items` text,
  `inv_cost` varchar(12) DEFAULT NULL,
  `inv_total_hours` varchar(12) DEFAULT NULL,
  `inv_status` varchar(20) DEFAULT NULL,
  `inv_date` int(11) DEFAULT NULL,
  `inv_paid_date` int(11) DEFAULT NULL,
  `inv_email_address` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
  `inv_member_id` int(10) DEFAULT NULL,
  `inv_order_id` int(10) DEFAULT NULL,
  `inv_reference_number` varchar(1000) DEFAULT NULL,
  `inv_first_name` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
  `inv_last_name` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
  `inv_company` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
  `inv_address` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
  `inv_address2` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
  `inv_city` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
  `inv_state` varchar(5) DEFAULT NULL,
  `inv_zip` varchar(10) DEFAULT NULL,
  `inv_country_code` varchar(3) DEFAULT NULL,
  `inv_phone` varchar(15) DEFAULT NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM AUTO_INCREMENT=103 DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;

And here's a sample row. The inv_line_items column is a base64_encode()d JSON object.

INSERT INTO `exp_cartthrob_invoice_table` (`id`, `inv_description`, `inv_title`, `inv_line_items`, `inv_cost`, `inv_total_hours`, `inv_status`, `inv_date`, `inv_paid_date`, `inv_email_address`, `inv_member_id`, `inv_order_id`, `inv_reference_number`, `inv_first_name`, `inv_last_name`, `inv_company`, `inv_address`, `inv_address2`, `inv_city`, `inv_state`, `inv_zip`, `inv_country_code`, `inv_phone`)
VALUES
    (1, 'Test Invoice', 'Test Invoice', 'YToxOntpOjA7YTo0OntzOjEwOiJpdGVtX3RpdGxlIjtzOjQ6InRlc3QiO3M6MTY6Iml0ZW1fZGVzY3JpcHRpb24iO3M6NDoidGVzdCI7czo1OiJob3VycyI7aToyO3M6OToiaXRlbV9jb3N0IjtpOjI1MDt9fQ==', '250', '2', 'pending', 1382031430, NULL, 'test@test.com', 0, NULL, '', 'John', 'Smith', '', '', '', '', '', '', '', '');

Feel free to contact us at support@cartthrob.com if you'd like help implementing this!