How to create 2 discrete steps for payment

Hi,

So this looks like a quote system you want.

You want to remove the "payment" view form the "checkout workflow" setting of the HikaShop configuration.
You also want to turn off the "auto select shipping and payment methods" setting there and you'll have step 1.
Then, you'll want to activate the "Payment of orders not paid immediately" setting so that customers can pay for their orders in step 3.
And you want to configure the "Unpaid order statuses" setting to the order statuses for which you want to display the pay button for the orders.
You can configure additional statuses if necessary via the menu System>Order statuses.
And you can create a menu item of the type HikaShop orders listing via the Joomla menu manager so that your customers can access their orders listing via that link that you can give them when you call them in step 2.

Hi,

Then, instead of removing the payment view from the checkout, you can have different payment methods with one being a "collect on delivery" payment method so that your customers don't pay on the checkout for their quotes.
And then, you'll have to restrict the payment methods to different sets of shipping methods and restrict these shipping methods to different warehouses so that you can have two warehouses that you can attach to your products. One for the products for quotes and one for the products to be paid directly.
It's more managing to do but it's possible.

Hi,

1. You should turn off the "Allow customers to change
their payment method after checkout" option so that the customers won't have the possibility to change their payment method, and then, you can instead select it for them in the backend when you check their order.

2. As I said in my previous message, you're supposed to restrict your payment methods to the corresponding shipping methods so that if the customer tries to order both a "quote" product and a "pay right now" product, no payment method would be found, and in that case, the system would display an error message (that you can customize with a translation override www.hikashop.com/download/languages.html#modify ) and wouldn't let the customer finish the order.

Hi,

Ok, I see what's going on and I think that what I proposed won't do as the payment method will display as long as the shipping method is available for at least one warehouse.
Then, it will require another solution without using warehouses:
What you could do is have a weight and no dimensions for one group of products, and no weight and dimensions for the othe group.
Then, in your payment methods, you could use the min/max weight/volume restrictions in order to display or not the payment methods based on the total weight/volume of the products in the cart, indicating if you have products from one group or another in the cart, or from both groups.