I am trying to have a partner we work with have their payment information saved but when they advertise it to their audience or their patients the individual can go in and put the address and email but not have to put it in their credit card since it would be already filled in. I tried creating a draft order but it charges the card right away. I have a special discount affiliate code for them.
Topic summary
Goal: Enable a partner to fund purchases for their audience so end customers only enter address/email, with payment pre-filled by the partner. Also apply a dedicated affiliate discount code.
Current attempt: Creating a draft order, but it immediately charges the card, which doesn’t fit the desired flow where customers should complete checkout without entering card details and without auto-charging at draft creation.
Key constraints: Want a reusable, saved payment method tied to the partner for multiple customer checkouts; end customers should not input credit card info; affiliate discount must be applied.
Status: No solution or workaround identified in the thread.
Open questions: How to set up a checkout that uses a partner’s stored payment method for multiple customers; whether there’s a Shopify-native feature or app to support this while applying the affiliate discount and deferring charge timing appropriately.