Has anyone built a provider to send a completed order via email, and not take payment as someone checks out? Probably similiar to this request

http://www.dotnetnuke.com/Community/ForumsDotNetNuke/tabid/795/forumid/115/threadid/21006/scope/posts/Default.aspx

But I think a provider model for this may work best. If no one has tackled this I may start on it, just don't want to work on something if it is already in progress.

Hi,

According to jacksonakj this will be "added to the list of enhancements for a future release". But I'm think I have read somewhere in this forum that someone at WillowTree already have a "Test provider" for testing purpose.

I would love to develop a email provider myself, but since I got limited knowledge of C#, the DNN structure and compiling in VS it would take a lot of time and resources. I tried after reading DNN Store module payment gateway providers, but realized that I had to stop.

But if WillowTree could release the source for their "Test provider" (if they got one), I'm sure a third party Email Provider would emerge in no time!

With kind regards,
Bonavox

Hi:

I originally posted this to a thread in the 'using' forum threadid: 81559

I have developed a simple email provider for my customer's store, and posted it along with detailed instructions for installation and development. The development instructions include the _dnnStub project that has become popular in the DNN 3.x community as a way to speed up compilation and debugging of DNN Modules:

http://aciasoftware.com/Portals/0/EmailGatewayProvider.zip

If you have any problems downloading the file, post back to this thread.

For search purposes: This solution addresses the issue whereby there is no simple checkout provider for the store that doesn't require an account with either authorize.net or paypal (a much better situation than a store that didn't have that built in already !!!) and the user's customer will be doing Purchase Orders or something to that effect for their store.

Also of note, I developed a store module that was for sale on Snow Covered and actually did quite well (you won't find my name associated with it as it was sold by another company) in any event, the module is my property, and pretty much obsoleted by this one. Although written in VB.net, it did have a complete management capability as well as the ability for customers to view and print any previous order. I would be happy to donate my source to the project if that would be beneficial. Another enhancement I made (which was incomplete I believe) was to create create a gallery module for product photos. My store (like this one) used a picture.aspx file to read the bits of the picture from the file, cache it into the application cache, and display the cached bits. The problem is, with big stores, this could start to eat a lot of server memory. I think the best solution is to have pictures scaled by the administrative upload process, and simply read from the file system by the server.