Fast and Easy Checkout

[DivaVocals]

Hi bislewl - it's the page with everything including the "confirm order" button, but never mind that now... The FEC/CJL combo was nothing but trouble for me from the beginning (likely because of my lack of coding skills). When I discovered a total of 3 broken plugins (in addition to a slew of other problems), I finally gave up on it. Installed Integrated COWOA instead - less functionality but works like a charm "out of the box" and doesn't break anything else (as far as I can tell so far). I really wish FEC had been easier to implement, that one-page checkout would have been very nice.

Less functional?? because there's no "one-page" checkout or jQuery actions happening in COWOA???? That doesn't make COWOA "less functional".. just a DIFFERENT way of approaching the Zen Cart checkout process.. and BTW, the checkout PROCESS regardless of whether you use FEC or COWOA is the SAME..

1. Collect billing and shipping data
2. Select a shipping and payment method
3. Confirm and submit the order
4. Sale completion

[magz]

Sorry DivaVocals, I misspoke. You're absolutely right, the underlying functionality is about the same in both plugins. But what's experienced by the end user (buyer) is very different because of one-page checkout in one vs. multi-page checkout in the other. I do love the graphic representation of the progress in COWOA, though - a very nice touch. ~m

Less functional?? because there's no "one-page" checkout or jQuery actions happening in COWOA???? That doesn't make COWOA "less functional".. just a DIFFERENT way of approaching the Zen Cart checkout process.. and BTW, the checkout PROCESS regardless of whether you use FEC or COWOA is the SAME..

1. Collect billing and shipping data
2. Select a shipping and payment method
3. Confirm and submit the order
4. Sale completion

[Danielle]

I have version 1.14.3 of FEC installed on a 1.5.1 store. I noticed that when creating an account or doing guest checkout, if the billing state field is left blank or unselected, an error message displays. If the shipping state field is left blank or unselected, no error message displays. We do need customers to fill in the shipping state if they've selected to use a different shipping address.

I looked at a 1.3.9h site using an older version of FEC, and it has the exact same issue.

Has anyone else experienced this, and were you able to fix it?

In includes/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE/jscript/jquery/jquery_form_check.php, there is this line of code:

<?php if (ACCOUNT_STATE == 'true') echo '  if (!jQuery(\'[name="state_shipping"]\').attr("disabled") == "disabled" && jQuery(\'[name="zone_id_shipping"]\').val() == "") check_input("state_shipping", ' . ENTRY_STATE_MIN_LENGTH . ', "' . addslashes(ENTRY_STATE_ERROR) . '")' . "\n" . '  else if (jQuery(\'[name="state_shipping"]\').attr("disabled") == "disabled") check_select("zone_id_shipping", "", "' . addslashes(ENTRY_STATE_ERROR_SELECT) . '");' . "\n"; ?>

That seems like it should make the error appear if the shipping state is not selected, but it does not work. I am not familiar enough with js to know what is wrong with the code.

[jasonshanks]

I installed the fast and easy checkout module on zen cart 1.3.8 a . I did everything in the install doc except add the optional. But when i try to test the module out all the some of the text is bunched up and some of the input fields seem to be clipped .



Please help me fix this.

[bislewl]

First thing I would do first is remove the left and right sideboxes on checkout, it really helps the layout AND increase conversions

[jasonshanks]

alright , reading up on how to remove the boxes from checkout now. Thank you so much for helping me.

[tom97zr2]

I did this new FEC update, thank you, but I don't like how you can't view the my account page and then the order history details page after completing the checkout, in case the customer wants to see this info, so I just removed the two new .no_account files so you can view those pages like before.

I also installed the Add Shipping Telephone number mod and added code to 2 of the FEC files so the customers phone number will show under the addresses on the checkout page, I think this is important so the customer can confirm their address and phone number before submitting the order, especially when using the one page checkout.

After installing the mod (carefully read the readme file first and manually merge code into your files), use this:


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FEC files mods. This will add the phone number to the bottom of the addresses shown on the checkout page
*****************************************************************************

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* 1) FEC file /includes/modules/quick_checkout.php
*****************************************************************************
Find around line 440:
'entry_country_id' => $country);

Replace with:
'entry_country_id' => $country,
'entry_telephone' => $telephone);

Find around line 489:
array('fieldName'=>'entry_country_id', 'value'=>$country_shipping, 'type'=>'integer')

replace with:
array('fieldName'=>'entry_country_id', 'value'=>$country_shipping, 'type'=>'integer'),
array('fieldName'=>'entry_telephone', 'value'=>$telephone, 'type'=>'string')

******************************************
* 2) FEC file includes/modules/fec_create_account.php *
******************************************
Add to the end of line 489
'entry_telephone' => $telephone,
******************************************

Also in that mod in the readme file, there is one error, a missing }
Make sure to use this code below:

*****************************************************************
* 4) includes/modules/pages/address_book_process/header_php.php *
*****************************************************************
Add line 60
$telephone = zen_db_prepare_input(zen_sanitize_string($_POST['telephone']));

Add line 97
if (strlen($telephone) < ENTRY_TELEPHONE_MIN_LENGTH) {
$error = true;
$messageStack->add('addressbook', ENTRY_TELEPHONE_ERROR);
}

Add line 175
array('fieldName'=>'entry_telephone', 'value'=>$telephone, 'type'=>'string'),
Add to end of line 256 what is in the [ ]'s but DO NOT INCLUDE [ ]
$entry_query = "SELECT entry_gender, entry_company, entry_firstname, entry_lastname, [entry_telephone,]

[jasonshanks]

tried this here

http://www.zen-cart.com/showthread.p...es-in-checkout
But i still can't remove the sideboxes. Its gotta be something i am missing

[DivaVocals]

tried this here

http://www.zen-cart.com/showthread.p...es-in-checkout
But i still can't remove the sideboxes. Its gotta be something i am missing

If you followed the suggestions in that post it WILL work.. so if it isn't it means you have not made the correct changes.. So double check your changes and if that still doesn't work it would help if you provided details of what changes YOU made and what files YOU edited..

[Design75]

If you followed the suggestions in that post it WILL work.. so if it isn't it means you have not made the correct changes.. So double check your changes and if that still doesn't work it would help if you provided details of what changes YOU made and what files YOU edited..

In the readme it is also explained how to remove the side-boxes.