Minimum Customer Account Information

Description
You've got a store that sells only virtual products, so none of your products require shipping information. None of the payment methods you accept require you to send the customer's full address prior to processing, so why make the customer enter their address information for your store?

This plugin reduces the information gathered during account creation to:

First Name
Last Name
Telephone Number, if your admin's Configuration->Customer Details->Telephone Number is set to true.
Email Address, with its matching Confirm Email Address.
Password, with its matching Confirm Password.
Newsletter subscription check-box and HTML/Text-only radio buttons

Since all products in the store are virtual, the checkout_shipping page is bypassed … reducing the number of steps in your store's checkout to two (checkout_payment and checkout_confirmation). The invoices generated by your store's admin contain no references to shipping addresses.

Note: This plugin has been tested and works with PayPal® Express Checkout. If you use another payment processor, you will need to verify its interactions with this plugin.

There are core-file overwrites in the admin area, but all changes to the catalog are controlled by your selected template.
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Zen Cart® Versions v1.5.0, v1.5.1
Original Author lat9
Last Updated by lat9 - 25 Jan 2013
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Minimum Customer Account Information   -   Version: v1.2.3
BUGFIX: Use case-insensitive compare (strcasecmp) when checking email and email confirmation in /includes/modules/YOUR_TEMPLATE/create_account.php.   + Download
Zen Cart® Versions v1.5.0, v1.5.1
Date Added 25 Jan 2013
Author lat9
File Size 92.8 KB
PHP 5.3 Safe? Yes
Downloads 104
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Minimum Customer Account Information   -   Version: v1.2.2
* Restore the already optional "Forum Nick Name" field to the minimum customer information collected.
* BUGFIX: After a customer purchase, the "Previous Orders" table in the account page showed "Ship To" instead of "Sold To" and included the unused customer's country.
* BUGFIX: Moved the file /includes/email/email_template_checkout.html to /email/email_template_checkout.html in the distribution zip-file.
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Zen Cart® Versions v1.5.0, v1.5.1
Date Added 31 Dec 2012
Author lat9
File Size 91.1 KB
PHP 5.3 Safe? Yes
Downloads 25
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Minimum Customer Account Information   -   Version: v1.2.0
* Restore the already optional "Gender", "Company", "Date of Birth" and "Fax" fields to the minimum customer information collected. Your store's minimum information will now include these values based on the settings in your admin's Configuration->Customer Details.
* Moved additional language defines from /languages/YOUR_TEMPLATE/english.php to /languages/english/extra_definitions/YOUR_TEMPLATE/minacct.php.
* BUGFIX: Modification to login page's on_load_main.js since the State/Zone portion of create_account is no longer there.
* BUGFIX: The customer's checkout email still included references to shipping and the address information in the email was improperly formatted. Change required to functions_customers.php, to modify the address formatted in a customer's checkout email and to the checkout email template itself.
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Zen Cart® Versions v1.5.0, v1.5.1
Date Added 20 Oct 2012
Author lat9
File Size 84.6 KB
PHP 5.3 Safe? Yes
Downloads 78
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Minimum Customer Account Information   -   Version: v1.1.0
This version has been merged with the Zen Cart v1.5.1 files to pick up various bugfixes and the CSS anti-spam for the create-account page.   + Download
Zen Cart® Versions v1.5.0, v1.5.1
Date Added 24 Sep 2012
Author lat9
File Size 86.0 KB
PHP 5.3 Safe? Yes
Downloads 32
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Minimum Customer Account Information   -   Version: v1.0.0
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Zen Cart® Versions v1.5.0
Date Added 9 Aug 2012
Author lat9
File Size 84.4 KB
PHP 5.3 Safe? Yes
Downloads 62
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