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About: How To Create a Magento Custom Module and A “Cash On Delivery” Payment Method
Who’s Interested: Informative to the semi-technically savvy
What: Custom Magento Payment Method
So I’ve seen more and more people raising awareness about desire to create a new payment method that allows orders to be paid via “cash on delivery” or “on pickup” by customer. Is this helpful to companies who sell to local clients? Absolutely. But if you were to click here for info on the diversity of payments, you’d know that this is just the tip of the iceberg.
So in offering a solution, I’ll go ahead and outline what files need to be created and why with hopes to help educate the intigued learner in how to create a Magento Custom Module as well. The benefit in knowing how to do this is modifying existing Magento functionality in a way that it will not be overwritten upon a successful Magento upgrade.
Thus, I’ll jump in. The following 5 files will be created (relative to one’s Magento root folder):
- config.xml
- system.xml
- PaymentMethod.php
- mysql4-install-0.1.0.php
- NewModule.xml
Here are their contents (with comments) and relative paths:
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