Streamline the checkout process for Hikashop Auction

Hi,

After an auction finalizes, the winner has to go through the checkout to be able to provide the address information, select the payment method, select the shipping method, etc. So it has to send an email to the winner to direct him to the checkout.
And at the end of the checkout, the order is created and the user is normally redirected to the payment gateway payment page for the payment. HikaShop will send an email when the order is created if the "order creation notification" email is published in System>Emails. You can unpublish it if you want.
And after the payment, HikaShop sends an email to tell the user that the order is confirmed (and there is no payment link on this email), it's just a confirmation.

How could the user be redirected to the checkout after the auction ends ? It's likely the user is not on the website when this happens. And thus, the email is necessary.
Now, adding a link to access the payment from the product page once the auction is finished if the current user is the winner makes sense. I think it's a good idea. Try adding the code:

if ( !empty($this->current_winner_id) && $this->current_winner_id == $this->user && $this->auction_finished) {
?>
		<div class="hikaauction_bid_checkout_button_div">
			<a class="<?php echo $this->config->get('css_button', 'hikabtn') . ' ' . $this->bid_button_css; ?> hikabtn-success" href="<?php echo hikaauction::completeLink('checkout&task=checkout&product_id=' . (int)$this->element->product_id); ?>">
				<?php echo JText::_('PAY_NOW'); ?>
			</a>
		</div>
<?php
	}

if(!empty($this->element->extraData->rightMiddle)) { echo implode("\r\n",$this->element->extraData->rightMiddle); }

Hi,

I'm not sure what you mean. This link is supposed to direct you to the checkout.
What is the URL of the page you get to ? Could you do a screenshot of that page ?

Hi,

That's strange.
Between what I see in your video and what you're saying it seems that the order is created, but instead of redirecting to the payment gateway for the payment, you're getting redirected to the homepage.
It could be a problem with the payment plugin you're using, or another plugin or customization interfering.
That's hard to say exactly without digging in your settings. At least, I can't reproduce the problem on my end. On my end, after the finish button I get the payment page.
Could you provide a backend access via our contact form in order to check on the situation ?
www.hikashop.com/support/contact-us.html

Hi,

I don't see any purchase of the Stripe connect plugin we sell on our marketplace on your user account on our website.
Could it be that you're using a third party plugin to integrate with Stripe ?
It's possible that the return URL is not handled properly by the payment plugin. And if it's a third party plugin, we won't be able to fix it as you need to contact the developer of the plugin directly.

Hi,

Could you provide the link to access the auction page with the payment link, the user account to access it, and a backend access to access your settings via our contact form so that we could look at the situation directly ?
www.hikashop.com/support/contact-us.html

Hi,

Thanks for the access.
I was able to look at the situation.
I'm not sure why it's doing that.
However, I've changed the payment mode to checkout instead of end so that the credit card form displays below the payment selection directly instead of at the end of the checkout and for some reason it works even with the return URL filled.

If this is ok like this for you, then fine. Otherwise, Jerome, from Obsidev, who developed the plugin would have to look into it further.