What if customers could create there account during checkout by entering a password or not!!
What if they could register using only a first name, email address and password instead of using the create account page!!
What if anyone could checkout without logging in or having an account!

This is a hybrid of COWOA using a total of three types of user accounts!

  • STANDARD - the normal ZC account type, ether created during checkout by entering a password or anytime before if turned on.
  • REGISTER - same as the STANDARD except it was created just by entering a first name, email address and password, if turned on. Like some of the larger stores.
  • COWOA - which is just the standard checkout without account. Which really does not care any longer if you have an account or not!


Lets say any three can checkout without logging in!
Any one can check on order status without logging in!
A Registered account can finish creating their account by checking out or any time before!

The only difference between STANDARD and REGISTER is that the Registered account has to finish by entering an billing address and contact info, after which the account coverts to a STANDARD account.

This started out as an update to COWOA but it had so many changes to the core code that I decided to leave COWOA alone and do this as a separate mod. Follow the instructions and be careful how are where you use it! Miss installing, forgetting to upload an observer and you may give account access to everyone.

Created in the classic responsive template of ZC 1.5.5e and looking back it should work to ZC 1.5.5a. Tested on PHP5.6.30 and PHP7.1.1 with MySQL 5.5.5-10.1.21-MariaDB

I did this to aid in updating my site from 1.5.4 to ZC 1.5.5e. I'll end up doing the same for the other mods I use. I really have no plans going backwards with the code for older versions of ZC. I tried looking at my 1.5.4 site and recoding it, but at this time, its not worth my time.

This is a large mod. If you have a clean install of ZC 1.5.5e, it's possible to drag and drop files. The forms are responsive and are setup to stack and downsize based on screen size/viewpoint and not device type. The CSS for this is in the stylesheet_COWOA.css..

Remember, this is BETA, test, test and maybe go live.. I am still in the process of upgrading my site. I haven't tested against my PayPal sandbox yet. Well send it to the plugins in a bit.. also on my github page. This will start the support page.

https://www.zen-cart.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=2131