Multiple Pay later options

[permaculturegeek]

Our organisation does not have any payment processor and can't yet justify having one (especially since most memberships and event fees come in just two months of the year) - but we have multiple methods of off-line payment.
Since we can't overcome the system limitation of the single "Pay Later" option, we'd like to add a custom field for proposed payment method - Cheque, Internet Banking or Installments.  (Different people are watching for the arrival of different types of payment, o it helps if they know what to expect!)
I could do this in a participant profile, but that would be rather oddly placed, and gets repeated for multiple participants. Is there a way I can incorporate it once for the event later in the process?

[permaculturegeek]

Ok, I created a custom field, and tied it to "events" but it turned up on the event setting page rather than on the registration form. And when I changed it to Participant (specific event) it doesn't display at all :-(

[GinkgoDOB]

I have a similar problem - lunch orders for an event are taken for all participants when the first participant registers. It's fairly easy to use a jQuery .hide() call from a custom template "extra" file to hide entire sections from the registration form. There's a separate template for additional templates, so you don't even need to code logic depending on where you are in the registration process.

I did a presentation on this for CiviCampDC a while back. Here's a link:
http://demo.axonsolutions.com/wordpress/civicampdc/

It gives you the basics of how to do it. Feel free to reach out if you have any questions... (I should probably do a blog post )

[petednz]

pcgeek - i thought that for additional participants you could specify different profiles - therefore you could use a profile for P1 that includes your custom field - but not show it for P2 etc

[permaculturegeek]

You can, Pete? That would be great! where do I do that?
It would also be great if I could either switch or show/hide profiles for participants 2+ if they select adult or child ticket. (We ask fewer questions of kids, but one new question).

[petednz]

If the event allows for multiple rego's then it just show as an option on the Online Rego tab in manage event eg

http://d45.demo.civicrm.org/civicrm/event/manage/registration?reset=1&action=update&id=3

[GinkgoDOB]

Duh (smacks forehead). Yes, you can specify different profiles for first and additional participants. My issue stems from the fact that the lunches are paid and they're set up in in price set, not a profile. I'm at the end of getting this year's conference registration open, so I'm afraid I'm a hammer for whom everything looks a bit like a nail.

On the other hand, using a profile requires you create a custom field, which you may not care to have cluttering up the database. If you delete the field, you'll lose anything stored in it, which could be useful for historical purposes.

[petednz]

OTOH the custom field can be set to apply only to Participants for that specific event, and hence does not clutter other Events, and seems like a reasonable form of data storage

[permaculturegeek]

Also smacking head - I did see that and consciously left the child profile off the primary registrant - have added payment method in there.

Pete, did you see my other thread about making a coupon code field for cividiscount appear somewhere in the registration form? http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php/topic,35378.0.html
Or is the reason I'm not seeing it that we only have pay later, with no payment processor configured?

[petednz]

Can't help on that one sorry