Checkout without account

[GDOrn]

I've written a quick & dirty mod to 1.2.7. to give the impression to a customer that they are proceeding with checkout without creating an "account". In truth, as has been discussed many, many, many times here before, you can't really buy something online without giving pretty much all the info you would need to give for an account, so this mod really just changes three functional things:

- Removes the need to give an email address.
- Generates and stores a random password for the "account", essentially to prevent other people from logging into it.
- Doesn't send a 'welcome to ...' email to users who don't want an account.

Cosmetically, the password fields and 'required' asterisk are turned off when a checkbox indicating 'skip account creation' is checked.

You can see the mod in action on a bunch of sites I maintain. For example: www.bulbster.com.

It's still in progress and before I can release it, I need to trim to down to just changes made for this (there are some others in use at the moment) and update it for 1.3.1... As well as work out a few bugs. I may also alter it so that users without javascript see a more graceful form.

I highly suggest using the master password mod as well, as doing so with this mod will allow you to retrieve customer details if they gave an email address and log into their non-account.

[peruprincess]

Hallelujah

[Kim]

How do you confirm the order if there is no email? What do you do if the payment is declined?

[GDOrn]

How do you confirm the order if there is no email? What do you do if the payment is declined?

Telephone.

[Merlinpa1969]

Im in US,
Customer is in Australlia,

Phone call would cost a fortune,

besides with NO email address how do they get their recipt,
I can tell you first hand that customers get UPSET with no recipt showing what they are getting,

cause if you dont ship it they cant prove what it was
email is MANDATORY

[GDOrn]

Im in US,
Customer is in Australlia,

Phone call would cost a fortune,

besides with NO email address how do they get their recipt,
I can tell you first hand that customers get UPSET with no recipt showing what they are getting,

cause if you dont ship it they cant prove what it was
email is MANDATORY

So if they're not in the US, make email mandatory. This isn't hard.

It's pretty clear to a customer that if they don't provide an email address, we can't email them with updates. They still have the option to call to check on an order, because the order status system is totally untouched. Since we have an in-house system to automate shipping and tracking and feed that info back to ZC, if a customer calls up looking for a tracking number, we can provide that, too.

We're getting about 20% of people opting out of giving us their email address. Clearly, this is wanted by the customer. Of course, it's impossible to tell yet how many customers we're actually gaining, but I wouldn't be surprised by a 5-10% sales increase.

[O'Stern]

Where I can download this module?

[Graffi]

wow, just read through this thread.

I can't figure out the bitterness - it was stated that some online shops have different needs/requirements/preferences/clientele than other online shops - which makes the bitterness even more confusing.

Anyway, my shop is all downloads - I don't need to have shipping info, phone number, etc.

My way around getting all the info was to simply edit the form checker javascript, remove the parts that make certain information mandatory (like address, phone number, ...), and edit my create account template to remove those sections.

Now, customers only need to enter an email address (to receive download links) and a password (to actually get the downloads). Simple.

Just my 2 pennies.

[YellowPostit]

Is this mod still in development? Or is a version about somewhere?

This would be a valuable mod to those who need it. I won't go in to specifics, but having worked with accounts and no accounts, they work very differently for different demographics.

[O'Stern]

Is this mod still in development? Or is a version about somewhere?

This would be a valuable mod to those who need it. I won't go in to specifics, but having worked with accounts and no accounts, they work very differently for different demographics.

I solve this problem mysels. I created "Noname" account with id=xx. In page, where customer should post comments, I check is he registered and loged on user. If no, I draw form with name and phone fields. They are required. Information from this fields attached to the comments. Unfortunately, I didn't craete module - only modify source code.