My Checkout Without Account Mod

[kelvyn]

Can anyone tell me what advantages/benefits there might be over the other checkout without account mod. Both are really appreciated!

[craftzombie]

Nice work KGZotU! My hack needed someone to come along and make it what I really would like it to be. When I was forced to choose account or no account, I chose no account... wishing I could choose optional account. I would prefer optional account, but do not have enough experience with PHP to do this. I am looking forward to making another test site where I can play around with your mod. I can say this.... I have had more orders come through after removing accounts. I think it would be even better with optional accounts.

Thanks for your hard work. I can't wait to poke around and see what I can do with this! And of course I am pressed for time at the moment. It figures.

[KGZotU]

Can anyone tell me what advantages/benefits there might be over the other checkout without account mod. Both are really appreciated!

Kelvyn,

Sure. Basically, my mod allows a user to either create an account for checkout, or to checkout without an account. So, it's a bit more featured but it's probably also a bit more complicated, a larger pain to upgrade with, etc. Both mods are otherwise similar.

I think the essential strength that both of our mods share is that whether the customer creates an account or "doesn't create an account", we still capture and store all essential user contact info. As I mentioned, I was inspired by Craftzombie's mod.

I've added a couple of extras, like a page to check order status and a modification of tableless order steps that displays 4 or 5 steps depending on whether you're using an account or not.

Craftzombie, well thank you for the inspiration. (; I've really been wanting to do this for a long time. IIRC some studies have found that having to create an account is second only to hidden charges as a reason for cart abandonment. None of the other checkout without account mods seemed like they had a lot of potential, though. Glad I found yours. (;

Thanks again,
Joe