Stock reservation without payment
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Do any of woocommerce plugins allow the buyer (user) to create orders as a “draft” so that this draft order reduces woocommerce stock, but also allows the buyer to edit the order whenever necessary and only actually make the payment at a future date?
We have a need for customers to be able to “reserve stock” and “cancel that reservation.” And only when they are satisfied with the order, do they actually make the payment.
Thanks!
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Hello @basedoecommerce,
Just to clarify, you want customers to place orders while reducing stock (with no payment), and also have the flexibility to pay for the order whenever they choose, correct?
This is not possible by default, but you can try the following workaround.- First, go to WooCommerce → Settings → Products Inventory and adjust the ‘Hold-Stock’ value to 9999999999. This will prevent automatic order cancellations and restore the stock.
- Next, to enable customers to check out without immediate payment, you’ll need to modify one of the core WooCommerce payment gateways, such as BACS. Rename it to something like ‘Place order without payment’ using a translation plugin like LocoTranslate (check this guide). This ensures know this is the correct payment method if they don’t want to pay now.
- Then, modify the behavior of the BACS payment method so that it sets the order status to ‘Pending payment’ instead of ‘On-hold’ when a customer places an order. This step is crucial as with a ‘Pending payment’ status, customers can easily pay for the order from their account page, unlike the default ‘On-hold’ status. You can achieve this part by adding the following snippet(PHP Snippet 1) to your site via a plugin like Code Snippets.
And that’s it, customers can now pay for the order whenever they’re ready from the my-account page. :?)
Link to image: https://d.pr/i/zen0KvHope this helps!
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