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Prior to nopCommerce 3.40,  "In-Store Pickup" was Shipping Method and the customer had to select or enter a shipping address just to be able to get to the Shipping Methods page (or tab in One-Page Checkout).   "In-Store Pickup" has now moved to the Shipping Address page.  You can enable this by checking the '"Pick Up in Store" enabled:' option on the Configuration > Settings > Shipping Settings page.

If you have several payment options including "Pay In Store", you may want to only show "Pay In Store" if the customer selected "In Store Pickup".  Payment Director can handle this:

Be sure to activate all the Payment Methods you want to offer, and then you only need to enter the one conditional Option above.   Any Options not indicated in the Payment Director configuration page will always show unconditionaly.

If you have multiple languages, you can access the Locale Resource String for the In-Store Pickup Shipping Method Name.  (This is also the shipping name you see on the Order).  Use Payment Director's GetLocaleString method:

You can download the above configuration that you can then import into Payment Director.  You will find the replacement Views in the \Views subfolder in the download .zip file.  (Read the Readme.txt file in the .zip file.)

The SD version is 1.19

Release Notes

Updates for 3.40
Warnings about ShippingDirectorIsActive and OtherShippingRateMethodsAreActive
   Warning: Core 'Free shipping over X' is enabled
   Warning: Actual store shipping will be 0 because ...
       the cart has no items that require shipping
       all products are marked for 'Free shipping'
       the Customer role has free shipping"

Hide test button if SD is not active

Customer extension - HasAttribute  (This accesses the customer shopping attributes, not the customer custom attributes).  E.g.:
    Customer.HasAttribute("DiscountCouponCode","freeshipping")    //compare with InvariantCultureIgnoreCase

Update 2017-12 - Although the  HasAttribute  extension still works, it won't be able to check the DiscountCouponCode as in the above example.  nopCommerce now supports multiple coupon codes applied to the cart.  So, they now store XML in the DiscountCouponCode attribute.   Also, the attribute can be the null string, and you cannot call methods (like ToLower() ) on null strings.  This is how you can create a variable:

   (Customer.GetAttribute("DiscountCouponCode") + ".").ToLower()

Or just test the condition directly:

   (Customer.GetAttribute("DiscountCouponCode") + ".").ToLower().Contains("""couponcode""")

Note the extra quotes "" on both sides of string.  The XML attribute is quoted.  In the future, we'll create a collection property to make this easier.

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Here's a bunch of expressions you can try.  Be sure that you activate any Payment Method that you want to use.  

1. Boolean $Debug true  - this will log trace messages in the System > Log.  Be sure to remove it (or make inactive) in production.
2. Check Or Money Order - shows custom localized text
3. Cash On Delivery - only visible if postal code starts with 888
4. Manual Credit Card - only visible when an admin is impersonating.  Note the " use POS " hint added to the friendly name
5. Manual and Authorize.ney - calculate the fee based on selected card
6. Purchase Order - only visible for specific role
7. Pay In Store - visible always, but can only be selected if shipping method selected in In-Store Pickup
8. PayPal - only visible for store # 1 when selected shipping is FedEx

In order to utilize the features to have disabled payment methods, and to change the name of payment methods that the customer sees, replace your checkout views (.cshtml files) with the ones provided in the \Views\Checkout sub folder from the evaluation zip file you downloaded.

You can download the configuration import file by clicking on this link PaymentDirector (Various Expressions).txt

Also, if you're using the Test button in the PD configure page, if any expression uses OrderTotalWithoutPaymentFee, then be sure you've used the public store to put an item in the cart, and if using ShippingOptionName, go through the checkout process just past selecting a shipping method.  (PD will warn you otherwise)