Minimum Customer Account Information - Support Thread

[lat9]

Scenario: 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, by overriding related core files.

The plugin is now available: http://www.zen-cart.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=1465

[ljdream00]

Thankyou!!!
I truly need this because I only have downloadable products.

[lat9]

I hope you find it useful; I developed the concept initially for one of my websites that has only virtual products.

[lat9]

Due to the CSS anti-spam feature addition in Zen-Cart v1.5.1, this module requires an update to be v1.5.1-ready; it's on my (ever-growing) to-do list.

[lat9]

v1.1.0 is now available in the Plugins area ...

[raj3396]

Hi, nice plugin, Does this work on version 1.39h, I would love to Install

[lat9]

Hi, nice plugin, Does this work on version 1.39h, I would love to Install

Due to the changes introduced in the v1.5.0 admin wherein most of the form fields are now sent via POST instead of GET variables, I cannot recommend this plugin for Zen Cart versions prior to v1.5.0; I have tested only with v1.5.0 and v1.5.1.

[raj3396]

Thanks for the reply

[mickyholmes]

Hello,
please could someone help me with installing this plugin?

I renamed my admin folder to control_panel, so I understand that, but I don't know what or where my "YOUR_TEMPLATE" folder is. If it helps, this is a brand new store that I'm setting up and I've just installed v1.5.1 so that I can use this plug-in. In my store the folders that I see are:

/includes/languages/classic/
/includes/languages/english/

Is it one of these? I'm not sure if I am even using a template!

Thank you,
Michael

[lat9]

Hello,
please could someone help me with installing this plugin?

I renamed my admin folder to control_panel, so I understand that, but I don't know what or where my "YOUR_TEMPLATE" folder is. If it helps, this is a brand new store that I'm setting up and I've just installed v1.5.1 so that I can use this plug-in. In my store the folders that I see are:

/includes/languages/classic/
/includes/languages/english/

Is it one of these? I'm not sure if I am even using a template!

Thank you,
Michael

Michael, you don't yet have a custom template; follow the instructions here to create your custom-template's directory and set it as your default.

Once you've got that, you'll unzip the plugin's distribution file and:
1) Rename the YOUR_ADMIN folder to your admin folder's name. Let me suggest that you rename if from control_panel since you've posted that name here.
2) Rename each instance of a YOUR_TEMPLATE folder (3 of them) to your custom template's name.
3) FTP the /includes and (renamed) YOUR_ADMIN folders to the root of your hosted installation (or copy them to the root of your local installation). If this is the first plugin you're installing, you can safely overwrite the admin files. Since you're creating a brand-new custom template, all of the template files should copy directly (i.e. not overwrite anything).