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How do you work out payment for the remaining 50%?

Since my client is typically lists 1 product available per listing, this becomes a huge problem with the amount of traffic he gets. What I'm getting at is people who put an item (single item) in the cart and then don't complete the order. Often the item doesn't get released from their cart for a period of time. So he usually will list 5 as the quantity until the item is sold and then remove it from availability. Of course the quantity is remove from the product details and customers can only chose 1.

He'd like for the deposit to be taken and then for the item to be removed from inventory while the remaining amount due remains available for the customer to pay.

I find this rather perplexing myself. If an item is $1,000 and the deposit is $100, how do we make sure the customer can get back to pay the remaining $900? Also his deposits expire in 7 days, since his inventory is "live", literally alive, he must sell the item as fast as possible to make a profit.

Oh yeah, thanks for linking my thread. I've since gone a different route.