My Checkout Without Account Mod

[craftzombie]

I have had a couple of sales of two buys but never more, I think I will enable PO module and do some shopping, and see what happens, I will get back to you, nice to see you back!

pete

Thanks! Well, I just did 3 in a row on my site with no problems. I didn't think there was going to be a problem since I have customers who do it, but I just had to see for myself. I remember testing it when I first installed it, but that was so long ago. I thought I'd test again just to be sure.

[colemanpa]

I will enable PO module and do some shopping, and see what happens, I will get back to you.

I did it six times no problems, under customers in admin the name I used shows up six times with nothing added but with different ID numbers, I did not look in the data base, audleman must have something else going on like another module sharing a file, and it got over written opposed to of being merged.

pete

[audleman]

OOPS! After thoroughly reading the code and testing running the same email through a few times, it appears as if this module will simply create a new customer record each time. Looks like I spoke before finding out what was really going on. Sorry!

I don't know what caused that problem my customer reported...

Gang, thanks for your responses, and sorry for the bother.

Kevin

[audleman]

I figured out what was really going on. A customer had COWOA'd using the email [email protected]. She later tried to create a regular account with [email protected]. At that point, the create_account script threw an error saying that the email already existed.

Unless I somehow missed updating my create_account.php script while installing this module, it looks like as it is, once you've COWOA'd with an email, you cannot then use it to create a regular account. If they try, they are told the email already exists. However if they try to retrieve their password, the COWOA mod to the password lookup page will tell them their email doesn't exist -- a perplexing result for the customer.

Looking at the code, it is an easy enough fix the problem. Following the same convention found in the following two files:

includes/modules/YOUR_TEMPLATE/no_account.php
includes/modules/pages/login/header.php

we simply modify the query that checks for a customer record with the existing email in the following file:

includes/modules/create_account.php

$check_customer_query = "SELECT customers_id, customers_firstname, customers_lastname, customers_password,
customers_email_address, customers_default_address_id,
customers_authorization, customers_referral
FROM " . TABLE_CUSTOMERS . "
WHERE customers_email_address = :emailAddress
AND COWOA_account != 1";

With this change, when the user attempts to create a new account, it will do so without problem. The existing modification to the login script ensures that the duplicate customer records for the COWOA modules won't confuse the system.

After my last bout of confusion, I want to stop here and ask the community if this change makes sense. If so, I'd like to contribute it back to the community.

Cheers,
Kevin Audleman

[craftzombie]

...it looks like as it is, once you've COWOA'd with an email, you cannot then use it to create a regular account.

Wrong. A customer can create a regular account after using COWOA.

Its actually the other way around. They cannot use COWOA after they have created a regular account.

However if they try to retrieve their password, the COWOA mod to the password lookup page will tell them their email doesn't exist -- a perplexing result for the customer.

This is correct. A COWOA customer cannot retreive a password.

I think maybe your customer gave you the wrong info and was not too clear on which steps they did and in what order. Perhaps they created an account first and then tried to COWOA?

[audleman]

Wrong. A customer can create a regular account after using COWOA.

I tested this scenario and was unable to create a new account with the same email address that had been used in COWOA. If you're saying it is possible, I will take it that I failed to update my login.php script when installing this module.

Thank you,
Kevin

[bean48009]

I cant seem to get past the "Billing Information" page. I fill everything out and when I click "Submit" it reloads the page.

see here: https://www.toolsupplystore.com/inde...age=no_account

Please Help!

[craftzombie]

I cant seem to get past the "Billing Information" page. I fill everything out and when I click "Submit" it reloads the page.

see here: https://www.toolsupplystore.com/inde...age=no_account

Please Help!

Hmm... not sure if you fixed anything since you last posted, but I was able to get through COWOA checkout just fine. You'll have to delete me from your customers list. I should be there a few times.

One little thing... your no_account checkout page has the "state" field, but there is nothing next to the field that explains what that field is for. Most people with a brain would be able to figure it out, but you know how there are always a few customers who are a little impaired!

[nagelkruid]

anyone in this thread knows why we can't simply allow accounts to be created with the same address over and over again?

As each customer gets assigned a unique customer_id i really can't be bothered if they create 1 or 10 accounts with the same e-mail address, as long as they're buying
(and don't care of receiving a lot of the same e-mails, heh)

thanks,
Jeroen

[techdog]

I am experience a similar problem. I have double checked and ALL of the files have been upload but after someone enters their name and address, they are directed to http://annalena.com/shop/index.php?main_page=no_account and the page is blank.