Non-Flash?

[dstrange]

You can edit the Thank You email your customer receives and you also control the look of the e-junkie generated Thank you page. So I think you can get where you want to be. It just won't be a PDF file. I also don't recall if you can use HTML in the generated email but you can make it say anything you like and pass variables from your sale to it.



If you are using your own Thank You page you can pass variables to it to populate that page with. But I would just use the automated page and format it the way you want it. At least that is what I advise my clients to do.

[E-junkie_Guru]

I did not mean to suggest that we are technically unable to display order details, since we obviously have a record of whatever details the payment processor passed back to us when they confirmed completion of the buyer's payment. Rather, it is not our place to provide a receipt for payment funds tendered that we had no role in actually handling, and our doing so could raise legal issues in various jurisdictions. This is one reason the aforementioned technique refers to formatting a thank-you page as an "invoice" rather than a "receipt" per se.



Think of it in real-world terms: in a physical store, who should hand the customer a receipt for their payment -- the cashier who actually received cash from the customer, or the will-call clerk who provided merchandise to the customer after the cashier told them it was paid-for? Translating that to online terms, the payment processor is your cashier, whereas we are just the initial order-taker and will-call clerk.



Since you're redirecting to a thank-you page on your own site, you can use the method we explain here to embed our generated thank-you page content (formatted as an invoice, if you like) within an iframe inside your site's thank-you page:

http://www.e-junkie.com/ej/tips.redirection.download-link.htm



You can also use our custom/third-party Integration feature to have us send all the order data to an external script that could then do whatever you wish with it, such as generating a receipt to send the buyer:

http://www.e-junkie.com/ej/help.integration.htm



If you'd like some help setting up such a custom script, we can recommend the independent developers for hire listed at the Developer Directory link at the top of our site.

[henry]

E-junkieGuru, I am not sure why you refer to legal issue on producing a receipt because you are not a payment processor. If this is really the case, why does the rest of your response aim to show how this can be done in a thank you page, simulating an invoice/receipt. Wouldn't that lead to legal issues?! I dont think your shopping cart is just a clerk or order taker. You do a lot more than that. On a technical level, you collect customer information on your form and on the other side, would only release products once the payment goes through. What kind of legal issue is there in generating a log of the transaction based on the data you have already collected and knowing that the transaction has gone through. Would you be kind to expand on it please, because I find it very puzzling. Other shopping carts do it so why not you (example: Roman Cart which provides a very similar service to you)



Now, as for your description on how to simulate an invoice, you simply dont provide the desired functionality as I have explained this several times now, and over the years. Yes, I can put an iframe pointing to your site on my own thank you page. This iframe needs to be filled with something that would look like an invoice. For this I require transaction data and a "PRODUCT LIST". I have included your guide on tokens below. None are about including a list of products purchased that can be shown in one page. The product list is an essential part of an invoice/receipt. Without it, there is no receipt. The same goes for emails sent. There is no token to include a list of products purchased in an email, even as a simple text list.



From:

http://www.e-junkie.com/ej/help.custom.thankyou-page.htm



Template variables you can use in the Common Thank-you Page HTML field



[%first_name%] (Buyer's First Name)

[%last_name%] (Buyer's Last Name)

[%payer_email%] (Buyer's PayPal Email)

[%txn_id%] (Transaction ID)

[%auction_buyer_id%] (Auction's Buyer ID [for eBay sales only])

[%shipping_name%] (Shipping recipient's name [if applicable])

[%address%] (Shipping Address [if applicable])

[%city%] (Shipping City [if applicable])

[%state%] (Shipping State [if applicable])

[%zip%] (Shipping ZIP/Postal Code [if applicable])

[%country_full%] (Shuipping Country [if applicable])

[%country%] (Shipping ISO Country Code [if applicable])

[%total%] (Item total)

[%fee%] (Payment Processor's Fee [if available])

[%affiliate_share%] (Affiliate's commission [if applicable])

[%affiliate%] (Affiliate's email [if applicable])

[%currency%]

[%invoice%] (Unique Invoice ID generated by E-junkie)

[%tax%] (Sales tax or VAT)

[%shipping%] (Shipping + Handling)

[%gross%] (Order total)

[%p_date%] (Payment Date, example: January 1, 2009)

[%c_date%] (Current Date, example: January 1, 2009)

[%c_time12%] (Current time (MST) in 12 hour format, example: 7:07 pm MST)

[%c_time24%] (Current time (MST) in 24 hour format. Example: 19:07 MST)

[%custom%] (If you passed a custom variable in the button code)

[E-junkie_Guru]

You may find of interest this FAQ page explaining in real-world layman's terms how the purchase process works in regards to our system, which is a bit different from most other e-commerce platforms that have built-in functions to process payments:

http://www.e-junkie.com/ej/faq.how.laymans-terms.htm



I was merely making a semantic point that the term "receipt" indicates proof of something having been "received", namely actual payment funds in this case. We do not handle any buyers' actual payment funds whatsoever; they never touch or pass through our system in the course of checkout, so we cannot provide any proof that such funds have been tendered at all. We only take the payment processor's word for it, after the fact, that they have received payment from the buyer, and then we process the order accordingly (send emails, issue links, log order details).



What we CAN provide is an "invoice", which is merely a summary of order details. Every common thank-you page we generate* already includes a list of the specific item(s) ordered, so there is no need to use any particular template tokens to insert such a list, because that list is already included in the page by default. Our technique to format the thank-you page like an invoice merely explains how to ADD further order details to that default list of items ordered. If you embed our generated thank-you page content inside your site's thank-you page, that would also display the same list of items along with whatever additional details you chose to add to that list.



*The one exception to that all-items-ordered list is with the link we include by default in product-specific thank-you emails for digital products; in this case, that link would open to a thank-you/download page for just that one item alone. If you prefer not to show this item-specific thank-you page, you can either disable product-specific thank-you emails or Enable Templated Email for them to replace our default message with a custom template. In the latter case, the template tag [%thankyou_link%] would insert a link either to a consolidated thank-you page listing all items in the order or otherwise to your site's thank-you page if you redirect to one.

[henry]

We seem to be lost in semantics now. The invoice as you define it will do, even though its pretty much a receipt. All a customer wants is the summary of the order placed. Does the list that is already included on the page has prices as well. To be an invoice, we need to have a list of products and their prices, not just the total price charged to customer, and not just a list of products purchased. I dont think your list will have this. If prices can be included let me know and i will see if we can create an invoice. Bear in mind that prices should reflect any discounts given.

[dstrange]

Well we are now in Q4 and it has been weeks since the last update. I just spent two frustrating days trying to get things done with the Flash interface.



Also had a very good friend call and ask if I was still really up on e-junkie. I told him I was but with reservations. I had two - sloooow response time to issues and lack of Stripe integration. Stripe has become a go to tool and for a micro business. The difference in fees over a year from a standard merchant account can be significant.



After telling him that I told him my top alternatives based on my research should I need to leave. Haven't heard back from him yet.



So I'm asking nicely - can we please have a status report? Some screen shots would be nice also. I would appreciate it.

[E-junkie_Monster]

Those of us on the support team have been involved in the testing process and we've helped nip several problems in the bud, but we're not the programmers so we couldn't tell you how many bugs still need to be smoothed out before the new system is ready to roll out.

[E-junkie_Guru]

We're now already in late alpha testing on the completed new Admin -- I'm testing and using it every day myself -- and latent bugs are getting harder to find while logged bugs are getting sorted out almost as soon as we find them. The latest ETA from Development is that we should be on track for at least open beta testing, and possibly even a full public launch, by the end of this month.

[albertocv]

Any news about that? Did you launche the beta?

[E-junkie_Guru]

At this point, it looks like we'll be prepared for a soft launch of the new Admin to start open opt-in public beta testing by early next week. The Admin itself is actually done, just has a couple minor settings bugs we want sorted before we'd open it up, and right now we're implementing a new HTML-based contact form, so people on mobile devices could use that to submit bug reports.



Watch our Service Status & Updates subforum for the official soft launch announcement with a link to access the public beta:

http://www.e-junkie.com/bb/forum/6

[albertocv]

THIS



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GREAT



!!!!

[E-junkie_Guru]

Open opt-in beta testing of the new, DHTML-based E-junkie Admin has now commenced!



For details, please see the announcement in our Service Status & Updates subforum here:

http://www.e-junkie.com/bb/topic/6917