questions concerning small payment amounts, invoices and plan updates

[holaa2019]

Hi, I am experimenting with this package and love it so far. Great work!

I discovered required minimum amounts for some payment methods at Mollie. e.g. EPS or Giropay require at least one Euro.
As I want to allow users to set up their own combination of services and to swap plans and quantity at will, I managed to generate (subsequent) test orders of 0,01 Euro (after a larger first payment) which was no problem in mollie testmode for the particular payment method (credit card). But for other payment methods?

1: Do you know, when using directdebit methods and small amounts, are payments through cashier handled with ease (because they are defaulting to sepa directdebit with a minimum amount of 0,01EUR)? My testing resulted in pending payments.... So I cannot tell. This might also be a question to Mollie?

2: Is there a way to defer the execution of orders in cashier until the payment amount is e.g. larger than 1 EUR? (For reducing paperwork)?

3: Pending payments result in order status "open". OrderInvoiceAvailable is triggered only if the payment is in status "paid". Is there a way in cashier of creating invoices for "open" orders?

4: Is it advisable to block updates of quantity or plans until all payments are fully processed for a subscription? (I manage to generate a lot of credit after downgrading the plan on a subscription with a larger open payment order. If I would have friendly and easy refunding policies, this would be a great way to generate cash for a customer?!).

Thanks

[sandervanhooft]

1. Mandated payments in test mode will remain in status pending until you manually modify the status.

If the order amount is less than Mollie's minimum amount, the amount is deducted from the user's balance in Cashier.

2. No, except for what I describe above.

3. You can manually get the invoice from the Order model. $order->invoice(). Note that presenting an invoice before it is paid can make the process a lot harder. I.e. if the payment fails, you now need to manually administer a correcting invoice.

4. Depending on your use cases / business cases some risk management strategies can be advisable. I cannot comment on that.

[holaa2019]

Thanks for the quick clarification!