PaymentMethodTypes Enumeration
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Specifies the type of payment.
Namespace: Microsoft.CommerceServer.Orders
Assembly: Microsoft.CommerceServer.Orders.CrossTierTypes (in Microsoft.CommerceServer.Orders.CrossTierTypes.dll)
Syntax
'Declaration
Public Enumeration PaymentMethodTypes
'Usage
Dim instance As PaymentMethodTypes
public enum PaymentMethodTypes
public enum class PaymentMethodTypes
public enum PaymentMethodTypes
Members
| Member name | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| CreditCard | Credit card payment type. | |
| GiftCertificate | Gift certificate payment type. | |
| PurchaseOrder | Purchase order payment type. | |
| CashCard | Cash card payment type. | |
| Custom | Custom payment type. | |
| Custom1 | ||
| Custom2 | ||
| Custom3 | ||
| Custom4 | ||
| Custom5 |
Remarks
User-defined payments should use PaymentMethodTypes.Custom.
The types of payments that are supported:
Cash Card – Conceptually, a Cash card is refillable gift certificate. The best of example of this is a meal Cash Card or internally within your company, your ID card when purchasing items at the cafeteria. You are able to add cash to either of these cards as credits towards purchases at each vendor.
Credit Card – This allows a customer to provide a commercial or branded credit card to the site, and have it processed for payment of the amount specified.
Custom - User defined.
Gift Certificates – This is a scenario in which a site essentially issues their own electronic currency. Although called gift certificates, what they actually amount to are electronic bundles of currency that can be spent at the site. No credit is needed, and the purchase is managed simply by providing identifying information (typically an ID number) of the gift certificate. These are very useful from a marketing perspective to tie the user’s cash into the system.
Purchase Order – In cases where the customer is a corporation, or employee of a corporation, there may be cases where none of the previous means of purchasing makes sense. The end-customer does not have, or should not use, a company card. Gift certificates don’t make sense. Instead, users are associated with their company, and must provide a purchase order number to authorize the purchase. Items can then be billed against that purchase order. For clarification purposes, this Purchase Order should not be confused with the order object “P.O”. A purchase order is the normal instrument by which goods and services are procured to fill a requirement. It is the seller's authority to ship and invoice for goods and services specified on the order. It is a legal instrument which expresses the buyer’s part of a contract of sale. Once accepted, it has the legal force of a binding contract