Quote Originally Posted by yellow1912 View Post
One of the things you may want to consider is:
Your customers will have to enter their billing (and possible shipping) address anyway, the ONLY difference between a checkout with account and without account is the password step.

So ultimately you go all the way just to remove a single field: the password field. What we did for many clients: we re-word many fields in the registration phase, make it sound like they are actually just entering their info for checking out.
Exactly! Especially if one is using PayPal to collect payments, you have to enter the SAME information into PayPal so except for the password, there really is nothing different the customer is having to enter to create an account..

As for customers not being technically savvy; how much savvy does one require to enter information into clearly labeled data fields? If customers are not having issues entering in data into PayPal forms, then ZenCart account forms is a cinch IMO..

In the case of my one client, she discovered her clients weren't as technically challenged as she thought they might be.. There will always be a few special folks, but in my experience, these special folks would have issues regardless as to HOW easy you made it for them..