Hooking into AJAX checkout submit event

  • Hello,

    We need to perform a check after the checkout form has been filled out. Based on this successful check, we will display the available payment gateways.

    This has turned out to be tricky.

    I can see the ‘checkout_place_order’ event being triggered in checkout.js, but this is happening before the form validation has passed. We need valid form data to perfom our check.

    What are our possibilities here, other than creating our own AJAX-call from scratch?

    Thanks in advance,

    Michael

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  • Plugin Contributor Mike Jolley (a11n)

    (@mikejolley)

    Payment methods get updated via an ajax event which is called once fields are filled in. This would be the ideal place to do any custom validation and/or tweak payment methods. Look at the JS to see what ajax events get called. The functions + hooks are in our https://github.com/woothemes/woocommerce/blob/master/includes/class-wc-ajax.php file

    Thread Starter paddelboot

    (@paddelboot)

    Thanks for the reply.

    Unfortunately, every background check we do costs money. Therefore, we cannot make a check when all fields are filled in, since the user might update the fields (typos, corrections).

    Thread Starter paddelboot

    (@paddelboot)

    The only way I see right now is to completey replace the AJAX call that is made in checkout.js, function submit(). I just wonder how this will work with future updates.

    Plugin Contributor Mike Jolley (a11n)

    (@mikejolley)

    You can quite easily check if all fields are complete before doing checks no? And cache the values to prevent re-checking same values.

    Or just do checks when place order is clicked instead.

    I apologize for injecting what might be a slightly new topic into this thread, but I believe my issue is related to this topic and may help others whose search ends here as mine did. I need to toggle checkout field visibility based on the selected payment method. I am using the ‘update_checkout’ trigger, but this does not cause an update of the checkout fields ‘billing_last_name’ ‘billing_first_name’ ‘billing_company’ ‘billing_email’ and ‘billing_phone’

    Is there a trigger that I can invoke (similar to ‘update_checkout’), so that the visibility of these checkout fields updates automatically when the payment method is toggled? Note that I have implemented the fields filter and confirmed that it works by manually refreshing the page after toggling the payment method. Now I just need the checkout fields to “refresh” automatically when the payment method is toggled.

    Thank you.

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