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    Offline Payment Option Needed

    We are looking to use Classipress but one requirement is ability to have offline payments. Essentially, we'd like people to place the order with a "pay by check or cash" option, and this puts the order is some sort of on hold/awaiting payment status until funds are received. I see that there is a paypal and bank transfers option by default, but don't see any plug-in in the marketplace that would deliver this sort of functionality. Any help is greatly appreciated.

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    As you've pointed out, ClassiPress already has a bank transfer option built into the theme. This is a manual payment function, so if a user places an ad using this, you have to manually approve the listing to be published based on your own manual payment receipt methods. You don't need an additional plugin for it. Thanks.

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    The problem is that the bank transfer requires acct# & routing# for a transfer of funds from one bank account to ours. For our application we are literally talking about the in person exchange of cash. No need for a bank account or routing number. The target market for this site is a country where many people do not have bank accounts, and the majority of transactions are done in cash. In turn we need a payment option that, when selected, simply takes the order without requiring any additional information, but instead puts the order in a hold status of some sort until admin manually progresses the status due to offline payment.

    Perhaps I am misunderstanding the bank transfer functionality built into Classipress. Is this an offline process without bank information required to complete the transaction?

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    On a related note there is a answer to this same question at the link below but without being a AppThemes customer I can not access the reply...

    http://forums.appthemes.com/vantage-...gateway-36291/

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    The bank transfer option is still a manual process, regardless of whether or not you're collecting funds via a separate bank account or in cash. Essentially all the theme does is bring up and information screen to the customer at the point of completing their listing, advising them of the payment instructions. If you're not planning to provide a bank account number, then other instructions can be typed in. You can see how this looks exactly on this part of the ClassiPress admin demo. The ad listing won't publish until you manually approve it.

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    PERFECT! Thank you for your help.

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    You're welcome :)

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