Accept Partial payments on Draft orders or Manual orders

[gio-novo]

I know you can accept multiple partial payments on Shopify POS which is very useful in my business but i would like this same function when doing draft orders or manual orders. I would like to email my customer the draft order and accept a "deposit" or a "down payment" on an order. Currently Square Invoice and PayPal Invoice offer this useful feature, where you can determine what is the initial minimal payment amount ( example 50% deposit) and after the customer either pick up or we deliver the order the customer pays the remaining amount. With square Invoice you can even set up a schedule of payments similar like a subscription but with a defined dates and last payment date. Also with 3D Cart you can record partial payments on offline or manual orders. 

When will we be able to accept or record partial payments on draft or manual orders on Shopify?

Thank you 

[javed_enduro1]

Still waiting.... 

[Adam_Mosley]

Oh look, another update with no partial pay option. And this one is supposed to be better for B2B sales? Maybe we all just need to leave Shopify and find a solution that has this basic function.

[Koennn]

Imagine my business can accept partial payments like most other platforms

[dopher]

Yup, new colors and some new icons we didn't need.   

[Kat25]

I saw the update & hoped. And was then let down. Still no partial pay option. 

[EllisClark]

We need this too!

There are a few 'user-friendly' features that would be very beneficial for Shopify to have!

[shopcurato]

This is not an acceptable solution. We need a way to split payments on the Draft Orders portion of Shopify. Having to go through to POS is annoying and customers should be able to pay a portion of their order via email. It makes us look unprofessional. 

[NMPP]

I also need this functionality. This is a huge pain point for my business. 

[-Gita]

This is possible using this feature https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/payments/partial-payments

[diana_birsan]

This feature is only for Shopify Plus though. Is the intention to not have a way to do support this through apps/in the admin for non-Plus plans? 

Right now there's no way for us app partners to offer partial payment for draft orders. We get this question multiple times a day from merchants.

[Stever27]

This feature is available only to stores on the Shopify Plus plan.

[EllinonK]

Hi Gita,

Since the system identifies you as "Shopify Staff", would you please inform
us when will this feature become available to all the rest of us that are
not on the Shopify Plus plan?

Thank you.

EK

[SPZO]

Alright, so it is possible. Just not for us small shops 😅

Well yet another reason to change to other than shopify. 

[Koennn]

Exacly. Accepting partial payment is ESPECIALLY important for Draft Orders,
as mechants use this feature ofter for custom products. Customers expect
partial payments on custom products, for example in furniture.

[EllinonK]

If anyone from Shopify follows this thread, it may be worth asking a
Shopify marketing manager
to initiate a survey of Shopify merchants to find out what % merchants sell
customized products/services
as a *significant* part of their business--perhaps more than 10% (or 20%)
of sales.

Willing to bet that this number of merchants justifies opening this feature
to the "rest of us."

Don't know about others but, it is so important to our business, that I
would be willing to pay a small
monthly surcharge for it!


🤓

[kelsiembm]

So this can be done....but you have to be on the expensive Shoipfy Plus plan. Once again a common feature on competitive platforms that they only allow for Shopify Plus stores. 

https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/payments/partial-payments

[michelleretz]

For some of the cases described in this thread, this app might help: https://apps.shopify.com/manual-partial-payments

It doesn't process payments, but it allows you to mark orders as partially paid when you take payments in other ways (including cash and bank deposits, for example). You could capture (but not process) the initial 50% deposit this way, marking the order as partially paid. And then when it's time to collect the remaining payment, send the invoice to the client.  

I would love to hear if that solves some of your problems here and/or what else you would need. 

[Koennn]

This kind of workaround creates headaces for our admin. Shopify should just implement multiple partial payments on Draft Orders natively.