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We were hoping that we could implement $0 price sets and have them work on CiviCRM.  We had them working on 2.0.x, but we had a problem where the system was requiring CC information for PP Pro even though the user had chosen a price set that was $0.  We need the ability to have "free" items along with paid items.  When we checked out the 2.1 sandbox, it appears that $0 price set items are no longer even allowed.  Is this a permanent decision?  If so, any suggestions on how to pull this off?

Thanks

Jeff

I'm pretty sure that in v2.0.x it would allow $0 price sets but not create any of the line items? are your line items of 0 value? (i.e. is there a combination price set that has the total value of 0?)

No decisions are permanent We plan to address and clean up price sets a bit more in either 2.2 or 2.3. patches to fix the current version will accelerate the process

lobo

I was authenticated on the sandbox as demo/demo.  Its pretty easy to replicate. Just try to add a price set field with $0 value to the "Kari Test" price set.  The form checking rules appear to prevent it.

We are able to add the price set items at $0 to 2.0.6 - but it looks like the form rules introduced in 2.1 now prevent that.  It looks like issue http://issues.civicrm.org/jira/browse/CRM-2830
addresses that - and the suggestion is to use custom fields and attach them to the event through a profile.

The problem we ran into in 2.0.6 is that the system requires a CC in order to process the event registration even though the total cost is $0.  We tried some work arounds (adding in pay later and then selecting it).  We thought in 2.1 that this form checking routines (confirm.php?) would bypass the payment processor if the total cost was $0. 

Right now, we are getting around it by making the "Pay Later" text display the name of the item that is free, and then editing the template to put it up inside of the price set. This will work for now, until we need to implement a "pay later" option. 

Here is the dev page to see what we did:

http://www.chsm.org/dev/civicrm/event/register?id=5&reset=1  (the sponsor pass is the $0 item that is now the pay later option - ignore the 2nd instance of it, we forgot to remove it below)

Jeff



   

Right, you add a field and make its price $0 (it won't let you)

Jeff:

Sandbox is being reset. So  you have to again create the scenario.

Kurund

Check

Price Set with $0 item:
http://sandbox.civicrm.org/civicrm/admin/price/field?reset=1&action=browse&sid=1

Event with above price set:
http://sandbox.civicrm.org/civicrm/event/register?reset=1&action=preview&id=3

Kurund

Great. So it works only with check items and not with numeric/text type items?  We were trying to create the $0 price set item using that data type. You get this (see attached)