Is My Order Process Too Complex?

[micmed]

Login page displays incorrectly in FF

I just upgraded FEC and something has changed in the CSS. I do not know what it is.

Newsletter subscribe checked by default is going to get your email server blacklisted.

I did not know that - Fixed

Turn off your sidebars once in checkout to reduce abandonment and distraction

Any guidance?

PayPal alone w/o a proper processor will cause much greater abandonment as well.

Plan to change in the near future.

Turn OFF the order confirmation so they are taken directly to PayPal and miss the confusing step where a shopper likely thinks you forgot to collect their payment information.

???

Thanks for your help.

[mprough]

I just upgraded FEC and something has changed in the CSS. I do not know what it is.

login.css

Turn off your sidebars once in checkout to reduce abandonment and distraction

includes/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE/common/tpl_main_page.php
add the following, near the top and directly after */

//add page names that you wantto disable left and right columns
   $center_column_only = array('login','checkout','fec_confirmation','account','logoff');
   // the following IF statement can be duplicated/modified as needed to set additional flags
     if (in_array($current_page_base,$center_column_only) ) {
          $flag_disable_right = true;
          $flag_disable_left = true;
     }

Turn OFF the order confirmation so they are taken directly to PayPal and miss the confusing step where a shopper likely thinks you forgot to collect their payment information.

Configuration >> Fast and Easy Checkout Configuration

One Page Checkout set to true

That way they will be taken directly to PayPal instead of the additional step on the end.

~Melanie

[micmed]

-FEC CSS issue resolved

-tpl_main_page.php mod messes up the template. Kind of the same problem that I had with Google checkout.

-One Page Checkout set to true, but the confirmation page shows briefly before continuing automatically to PayPal.

Thanks again for your help.

[daneh]

Melanie...thanks for that bit of code for turning off the sideboxes...much easier than other tweaks I have tried.