adding to and merge orders

I'm looking for a feature/mod in which the customer can add products to an order and in which the admin can merge multiple orders from the same customer, or add/remove products.

I'm using opencart as a wholesale store (amongst others) and have only registered and checked customers.
So if one of my customers place an order today and need to add something tomorrow, they have to place a completely new order, of which the price will be calculated including shipping, which if the orders are combined/merged is not neccesary.

So it would be ideal if the customer can change/update his order without having to place a new one. Of course this can only happen if the order hasn't shipped jet, so this option needs to be depending on the status of the order AND on the payment status. If an order is already completely payed for, this wouldn't be possible or a payment update would be needed. If the order isn't payed jet, a new invoice and payment request needs to be generated.

In addition it would be great if the admin would have the same abilities, so he'll be able to add or remove products from an order (again depending on the status). Or merge orders altogether.

I'm sorry to say that I'm not able enough to build this myself, but perhaps if others are interested as well, we can combine forces or payments?!

Anyway, looking forward to your idea's!

it would be ideal if the customer can change/update his order without having to place a new one.

By letting customers modify their orders from their account, it would also require the payment gateway to adjust the order confirmation bill on their end which, so far, hasn't been seen over API. Each generated transaction ID are unique and must be done on the fly upon each orders. It wouldn't be possible to simply fetch an order by either re-adding or removing a product once the order has been processed. Only the order status may change but anything else remains the same on site. However, only merchants can edit the order confirmation bill but straight from the payment gateway's web site.

agreed, but wouldn't that only aply if the shop requires direct payment?
I hadn't noticed before, but 1.5.2+ already has the ability to edit the orders (as an admin). So wouldn't the same aply for this?

And if, for instance, the shop would only use bank transfers wouldn't that be easily solvable?

wouldn't that only aply if the shop requires direct payment?

Not necessarily. Express payments are also involved with API transactions for most payment gateway these days. As for editing the orders under the admin, I know. Although, the order you modify rarely gets sent to the payment gateway to update the changes (depending which Payment Gateway you'd use). Otherwise, both ends needs to be changed manually on the customer's order which very few merchant does as this eventually becomes an issue in the end to maintain conformed copies on the order confirmation bills. :/

straightlight wrote: Not necessarily. Express payments are also involved with API transactions for most payment gateway these days. As for editing the orders under the admin, I know. Although, the order you modify rarely gets sent to the payment gateway to update the changes (depending which Payment Gateway you'd use). Otherwise, both ends needs to be changed manually on the customer's order which very few merchant does as this eventually becomes an issue in the end to maintain conformed copies on the order confirmation bills. :/

I see And you are right i guess

So let's strike the feature request...