COWOA (for ZC v1.5.x)

Hi,

Long time since I have had to make changes to my Zen Carts. Also now is the time to create a new one.

I think I would like to use COWOA (I came here from the FEC thread) or something similar but not sure if it is the right thing. Is there a description or perhaps an indication of what the acronym stands for or an old feature list, I have read a quarter of this thread and reading between the lines the plugin seems to be made to ease the checkout process. It all seems a bit secretive and not easy to find unless one might try to find some 200x threads perhaps that might describe the early builds. It would make some sense to drop keywords into the plugin description of what the acronym means and what the main selling point is, just to gain maximum conversions and grow the userbase. Grated it seems that many eventually find themselves using one of these streamlining plugins if they are practical but the whole Zen Cart plugin system sufferes from a LOT of conversion loss due to obfuscation.

My shop will have just 2 (later perhaps 3) physical products and there will be a very low repeat sale expectation so I hope to make the sale process as simple as possible.

I will only send via regular mail (with a tracking number) and shipping is free.

Asking the following here in case one of you power users has an opinion on such matters. I used to generate my address labels and response emails in excel that would include the tracking number from a table, perhaps there is a modern plugin that will save me some time with email templates with a tracking number field (I could scan the tracking label barcode perhaps) and something to print simple address labels. This site is to be implemented in South Africa so simple is best.

Regards

Kalle

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Originally Posted by KalleP

I think I would like to use COWOA (I came here from the FEC thread) or something similar but not sure if it is the right thing. Is there a description or perhaps an indication of what the acronym stands for or an old feature list, I have read a quarter of this thread and reading between the lines the plugin seems to be made to ease the checkout process. It all seems a bit secretive and not easy to find unless one might try to find some 200x threads perhaps that might describe the early builds. It would make some sense to drop keywords into the plugin description of what the acronym means and what the main selling point is, just to gain maximum conversions and grow the userbase. Grated it seems that many eventually find themselves using one of these streamlining plugins if they are practical but the whole Zen Cart plugin system sufferes from a LOT of conversion loss due to obfuscation.

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Right.. DIRECT from the module description (https://www.zen-cart.com/downloads.p...file&id=1416):

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This mod lets your customer checkout without having to register an account on your store.
It comes with a couple of additional (optional) modifications that let you see who used COWOA to checkout with and let's those customers who used COWOA to still be able to track the Order Status of their order by using the e-mail name they used during checkout and the OrderID number.

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Seems pretty clear what COWOA does.. what is still unclear here for you??

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Originally Posted by KalleP

Asking the following here in case one of you power users has an opinion on such matters. I used to generate my address labels and response emails in excel that would include the tracking number from a table, perhaps there is a modern plugin that will save me some time with email templates with a tracking number field

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Suggest looking at the Ty Package Tracker module..

Hi there

I am trying to find the best way to add a telephone number to the details a user adds when using COWOA?

anyone got any hints/tips on it?

Thanks.

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Originally Posted by HammurIT

Hi there

I am trying to find the best way to add a telephone number to the details a user adds when using COWOA?

anyone got any hints/tips on it?

Thanks.

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Duh - should have checked first - its already there.

I've spent all night working on a website, trying to get COWOA working. It was working at one time, then stopped for unknown reasons, so I had to work my way through uninstalling and reinstalling it. I thought everything was working, but obviously it's not, quite.

On the Login page, it now says "TEXT_STANDARD_ACCOUNT_HEADING" in between the lines that say "Welcome, Please Sign In" and the box that says "New Customers."

Then, where the COWOA box is, it says:

TEXT_COWOA_HEADING
COWOA_HEADING TEXT_RATHER_COWOA

followed by the Continue button on the far right.

When I click on the Continue button, I get a blank screen. At the very top it says:

Home :: NAVBAR_TITLE

But the rest of the page is empty.

What went wrong this time?? *sigh*

Oh...the url is http://borumapublishing.com/llcraftp...ain_page=login. Apologies in advance that it's an adult site.

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Originally Posted by DK_Scully

I've spent all night working on a website, trying to get COWOA working. It was working at one time, then stopped for unknown reasons, so I had to work my way through uninstalling and reinstalling it. I thought everything was working, but obviously it's not, quite.

On the Login page, it now says "TEXT_STANDARD_ACCOUNT_HEADING" in between the lines that say "Welcome, Please Sign In" and the box that says "New Customers."

Then, where the COWOA box is, it says:

TEXT_COWOA_HEADING
COWOA_HEADING TEXT_RATHER_COWOA

followed by the Continue button on the far right.

When I click on the Continue button, I get a blank screen. At the very top it says:

Home :: NAVBAR_TITLE

But the rest of the page is empty.

What went wrong this time?? *sigh*

Oh...the url is http://borumapublishing.com/llcraftp...ain_page=login. Apologies in advance that it's an adult site.

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I would check the includes/languages/english files looks like they are missing. They need to contain ref: to COWOA there are several. ie login.php around line 25-28 you should have :
define('TEXT_STANDARD_ACCOUNT_HEADING', 'New or Returning Customer?');
define('TEXT_COWOA_HEADING', 'Prefer to Shop Without Creating A Customer Profile?');
define('TEXT_RATHER_COWOA', 'You do not need to create a customer profile to make a purchase with <strong>' . STORE_NAME . '</strong>. Simply click the <strong>"Continue"</strong> button to checkout without creating a customer profile. Upon completion of your order, you will receive an e-mail order confirmation with a link to track your order status.<br />');
define('COWOA_HEADING', 'Guest Checkout');

Okay, partial success, but not quite in the way you were expecting.

All along, this weird template has installed some folders as scuro and some as Scuro. No idea why. The login.php file had exactly the lines you specified, and I had already re-uploaded it last night before posting this, in hopes that maybe the one file had not gotten properly installed along with the other COWOA files. I tried it again this morning. No joy, it still isn't working. So...I changed Scuro to scuro and suddenly my login page looks the way it should...no funky messages anywhere, and the COWOA box has the text it should.

BUT..............

When I click on the Continue button...I get another blank box with just "Home :: Billing Information" at the top. So now what? :frusty:

Thanks very much for your help...the site's almost ready to go live; this is the final step (I hope) before we change over the nameservers. So we're anxious to fix this problem.

I notice this plugin hasn't been updated in a while, but wish to be able to use this on a 1.5.4 site. How would I go about upgrading this module so that it is compatible with the latest Zen Cart version? Is it just a case of comparing the files within the mod against those in the standard Zen Cart file set and merging the changes?

Thanks

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Originally Posted by OLCS

I notice this plugin hasn't been updated in a while, but wish to be able to use this on a 1.5.4 site. How would I go about upgrading this module so that it is compatible with the latest Zen Cart version? Is it just a case of comparing the files within the mod against those in the standard Zen Cart file set and merging the changes?

Thanks

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I have used this version on a shop running 1.5.4 but it had been previously installed on version 1.5.1 which had been updated to version 1.5.4

A search didn't turn anything up, so here it goes.

Is there a way for an admin to log into a guest account? Specifically with either EMP https://www.zen-cart.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=94 or ALAC https://www.zen-cart.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=583

I have a site with EMP and it doesn't work. Seems obvious, there is no password to match to.