Question

On Magento, I am developing a commission module which I need to pay my agents when the sales is completed and not when the order is placed.

Ideally I would want to capture it when the order state turns into ‘complete’ but I have not found an observer to do this ?

I could add this to the shipment observer but a order can have multiple shipment and hence not right.

Alternatively I could always fire a cron job to calculate the order for last hour but again does not seem the right way.

Any suggestions on what is the right way to do this.

Answer 1

Use the observer “sales_order_save_commit_after” or “sales_order_invoice_pay” then you can get the order status and depending on the status you do what you want. Here is an example:

// for event sales_order_save_commit_after
public function commissionCalculationOnComplete($observer)
{
    $order = $observer->getOrder();
    if($order->getState() == Mage_Sales_Model_Order::STATE_COMPLETE){
    // do your order complete stuff
    }
}

or

// Event sales_order_invoice_pay
public function triggerProvisionCalculation ($observer)
{
    $invoice = $observer->getEvent()->getInvoice();
    switch ($invoice->getState()) {
        case Mage_Sales_Model_Order_Invoice::STATE_PAID :
            //do your stuff
            break;
    }
    return $this;
}

You will have to check that you don’t do the calculation twice, because this method is triggered each time an order is saved.