Deposits for Pre-Orders
The Woo Commerce Pre-Orders plugin allows you to charge an optional pre-order fee. Unfortunately, it is only charge on top of the regular product price and can't be deduced from the full paiement. Because of that, this pre-order fee can't be used as deposit.
One option would be to lower the product price so the product price + the pre-order fee equal the final product price. If the price is $100 and I want to charge $25 upfront, I could indeed set the price to $75 + $25 of preorder fee. That could work if the displayed price includes the fees, either $100 or $75 + $25. But it does not and the displayed price is only $75. The fees are only mentionned once in the product description: "This product has a $25 pre-order fee". It therefore looks as hidden fees (that most clients despice) instead of simple deposit.
It is too bad because a real deposit feature would be a real upside for this plugin!
Thanks a lot for reading!
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Miller Media
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Its been over 3 years and still not implemented! The feature should have been included on launch.
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Anonymous
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Come on man ~ Partial payment / deposit supposed to be included in the "pre-order" feature.
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Anonymous
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Yeah i agree 100%
I dont understand why this wasnt already a feature - making a small deposit on a preorder and paying the rest on release is hardly a new thing in the world! Its even more frustrating that there is a woocommerce deposits plugin but its not compatible ... *sigh*