Have any UK shop owners thought about the Pay Offline payment gateway or already using it?
 
Considering adding the facility and keen to hear feedback.

Hello,
 
You can use our predefined Personal payment system for some offline payments. In this case, when a
customer submits an order, you as an administrator of the site view his payment details and if approved process the payment manually.
You can get more information on setting personal payment system here: http://www.viart.com/shopping_cart_personal_payment_system.html
 
With regards,
ViArt Support Team

Hi Natalia,
 
Actually, they are a new payment provider:
 
More info is here: http://www.payoffline.com/Public/HowToPayOffline.aspx
 
However from the looks of it, I won't be able to submit customers payment, they will have to do it via checkout themselver and print off barcode etc

If you look at the Merchant tab the script looks pretty simple and passes your mechant id, order, amount etc and a call back code.
 
<form name="frmPayOffline" action="https://secure.payoffline.com/process/invoice.aspx" method="POST">
<input type="hidden" name="mid" value="PO123">
<input type="hidden" name="oid" value="ABC12345">
<input type="hidden" name="amt" value="19.99">
<input type="hidden" name="expdays" value="30">
<input type="hidden" name="callbackurl" value="http://www.yoursite.com/proc.php">
<input type="hidden" name="returl" value="http://www.yoursite.com/thanks.php">
<input type="hidden" name="cancelurl" value="http://www.yoursite.com/cancelled.php">
<input type="hidden" name="callbackvars" value="itm1=DVD&amt1=19.99&qty1=1">
</form>

Hi Ned,
 
Thanks for the info,
 
How easy is it to create a call back code? It's too techhy for me I think!
 
I have the payment system now online, just without a call back.
 
Thanks Andrew

If you look at the Pay Offline flow chart the call back is optional because they do email you.
 
It should be possible to modify one of the existing payment scripts to handle the callback information but I cant look at this for quite a few days - perhaps ViArt support can look at it if you raise a support ticket?

Thanks Ned - I'll see what they say :)