Can users pay their invoice after they close the submit page

[John D]

Hey,
Can users be sent a payment link so they can pay their invoice after they close the submit page?

I dont know PHP at all but hopefully there is a way this can be done.

Thanks
John

[David]

As I stated in the other post, I think we need some improvements in the payment system, and I will try to get a solution that helps you.

[anon]

John, so basically what you want is not to be able to pay from the normal page, OR pay from the normal page, but also send them an extra option to pay from an email sent after sign-up?

Rob

[Kevuk2k]

If you are charging for a listing then they should pay for this BEFORE getting listed anyway so why the need to send an invoice? Isn't that making more work than necessary?

I think that a better feature might be to ensure that people who submit to sites are reminded automatically about the need for payment pointing out that their site will not get past the first review stage if any until payment is made?

Kev

[John D]

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That's what I am doing now Kev, but there is no way to let them pay the invoice for THEIR submission, I THINK the only thing they can do is send a payment for the listing amount, then you have to find which listing they are.

If you could send an email which included a link that allowed them to pay for their submission I think it would save a lot of work.

I get a lot of people that submit their site, then don't send payment straight away but still want to list.
Then they just have to send me the money through paypal and I look for their site.

If there was a link that let them pay after they closed the payment page and just allowed the payment to be sent as if it was just made after the submission, that would be prefect :)

This is only for the people that haven't already sent payment, so if they are in the pending list and the only thing stopping the approval is awaiting payment :)

[Kevuk2k]

Doesn't your submission page automatically direct them to the paypal payment link? I know mine does and that was the basis of my reply. What people who submit do is to simply fill in the submission form and then are reminded by the script to select a payment option, ie. $5 or $50 they have to check one of these to go forward. This then takes them to the paypment page which is via paypal at the moment but hopefully will give other options at a later date.

There is a theoretical way they can bypass this but when correlated with my actual paypal account if the link submitted has not been paid for then it simply does not get listed and the poster is advised of this.

We are not a free advertising platform for anyone.

Kev

[John D]

Hey Kev :)

Yeah that's exactly what mine does, but what happens if they don't send payment then?

A lot of people don't send payment the first time, but do when they get a reminder.

I am looking to include a link in the email that will let them send the payment for the link they submitted and send me the notification email, just as if they had entered the site information and clicked submit then paid.

Do you know what I mean?

[John D]

Hey,
Just noticed phpld uses this before it creates the payment link

Could we include this in emails so people can pay their own invoices later?

Thanks!

[Neticus]

Hmm...For what your proposing to use it for its fine. But Ive just realised that from your example
directory/payment.php?id=xxx
Payment histories can be accessed on all phpld directories, this could be a potential privacy issue.

Some sort of redirect needs to be put in place.

[gmschmitz]

Is there a way to include this in the emails??? I'm running across the same thing, where people don't pay , but if I send an invoice through paypal they pay. It would be good if in the awaiting approval email that there is the link that they could click on, like directory/payment.php?id=xxx
Gary