chad131
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I am selling digital products from my site and trying to do the following workflow:
Use gravity forms for "checkout", call a custom URL to obtain a license key, pass the license key, custom text, and credit card info to FreshBooks, and bill the card, and send the invoice via email (which would include the license key).
The freshbooks api looks like it has that functionality....
http://developers.freshbooks.com/billing/
This would be possible using the available API hooks if you wrote custom PHP, however our FreshBooks Add-On doesn't support this functionality as it is primarily for adding clients and creating invoices/estimates and not for billing/charging cards (yet).
So in order to do this you would need to make use of the available API hooks in Gravity Forms to interact with the 3rd party service.
All of the available API hooks are documented in the Documentation. You would probably want to use the gform_pre_submission hook or the gform_post_submission hook to execute your custom code and integrate with the 3rd party API.
Anonymous
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Oh crap. Now I find this out? Booooooooooooooooooooooooo!
Anonymous
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If I could bill my clients filling out my form then I could completely bypass that old paradigm of shopping cart button BUY NOW ancientness. Come on, guys! Live in the now!
Anonymous
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Can't you guys put up a sample code where the form gets passed to Freshbooks for an estimate and then Freshbooks sends the estimate to the customer to pay?
Hi Joseph. The sample code you're requesting is unfortunately (quite) a bit more work than your request implies. Believe me, we can't wait to add all sorts of new features to Gravity Forms and all it's Add-ons but we've only got so much time in a day and we can't add every feature immediately. Thanks for your patience. :)
Anonymous
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Not even a webhook?
Here is a link to all of our developer documentation:
http://www.gravityhelp.com/documentation/page/Developer_Docs
It would be up to you to figure out which hook would best suite your purpose. Good luck! :)
