Quote Originally Posted by mc12345678 View Post
My apologies, I *was* thinking you were concerned about the admin side... The same day I think it was someone else posted a similar question, a different way trying to address the factors involved with extending the time involved with activity of a customer not being captured (ie if a product form required significant time to complete.) But the overall anwer was that regarding a customer not being active, if they are logged in and have added something to their cart, then it will be there upon next login. Otherwise, inactivity is likely a departure from trying to shop at the site, and it was described that the reason for extending the session was not apparently obvious/necessary.

So, I know that you're familiar with reasons of why not, but for those that read this thread, a good thing to help out would be the why is the extra time needed? (Nevermind, answer is in the first post.)
It's nice to not be logged out of admin for this particular site, so thank you. Also it was about time to upgrade

Can you direct me to what would extend the logged in user's session, or keep them logged in until they clear cookies or log out? Similar to Amazon, eBay, and just about any big ecommerce site (which, by the way, is personally a reason I find myself going back to those sites so often. because I am always logged in.)