My Checkout Without Account Mod

[KGZotU]

TPHoare:

Hmm...can you tell me if there's the same problem with orders made from permanent accounts?

craftzombie:

It was mainly an issue of a minority of servers not liking the set up. I think that the only feature that I didn't have implemented before the SQL version was the extra drop e-mail, newsletter, coupon, gv, etc. drop down option by which you can elect to send only to permanent account holders.

If you were to move to the SQL version, the only issues you would face with the old COWOA accounts would be as you update their order status.

Hope this helps,
Joe

[godspeed27]

How much have people noticed sales go up w/ this?

[postergame]

KGZotU

It's great that you are working to solve the checkout with or without account options that should have been included with ZenCart all along. I am happily using CraftZombie's checkout without account module right now.

I have one layout suggestion. Your login page is a bit confusing and intimidating when one first see's it. Maybe it's because the third option of checkout without account is not emphasized with a bold title, or that the customer has to read in two directions to decide on a choice. I think since customers have 3 distinct choices, that the choices should carry equal weight. Here is a site with an easy to follow login page:

https://www.fanshawemusicstore.com/login.php

I am told it is an OSCommerce page.

Thanks for all your hard work!

[KGZotU]

Good advice. It's basically a hack of the split login page, and on that note I would definitely recommend split login over traditional if you're using this mod.

On my live store, I've been using a bold header which I think does the job. Anyone interested can see it in the wiki with the screen shots. But, based on your note that the mod is somewhat confusing I think I'll include this bold header by default.

It's hard for me to step back at this point and judge the two pages. I think there's a good possibility that your link is less confusing. I'm a bit reluctant, though, to implement it at this point. I might a bit later when I'm in a position to do conversion testing.

That said, I do appreciate template change suggestions. Anything that gives anyone else an idea of how to make their store better is good. (; At this point, however, I think I'm going to step back from the presentation and maintain the code. If anybody comes up with some good template changes, I'll host and link them from the wiki.

Thank you again,
Joe

PS: For that bold header, just use this definition of TEXT_RATHER_COWOA:

define('TEXT_RATHER_COWOA', '<strong>Don\'t Want an Account?</strong<br /><br />Would you rather check out without an account?  Click the button below to do so.<br />');

[postergame]

You're right, your live site is much better. That "Don't Want an Account" title stands out very well. Nice job.

[ronwong]

Lovely, I just installed into a 1.36 installation.
For note of 1.36 installation. The paypal express codes will throw out errors on page 3 of check out, as paypal express is not in 1.36. You need to edit tpl_checkout_payment_default.php and remove 4 instances of paypal express checkout codes, they are all quoted out, so fairly easy to identify.

Now my only last thing is after checkout, the checkout success page has the word TEXT_CHECKOUT_LOGOFF_CUSTOMER and a broken link lof off button. Will look at this.

[ronwong]

I have this running on a clean install of 1.3.6 (I don't use 1.3.7 - yet). Here is the test site if anyone would like to check it out:

http://craftzombie.com/optionalacct/shop/index.php

I have not added the order steps or order status parts of the mod.

I started off as a "no account" customer. Did that twice with same email. Works great.

Then I used the same email to become an account holder. Worked great.

Then I used the same email address to checkout without an account and got the message that I already have an account. As it should. Worked great.

There were no issues with the text emails either.

Tried it in Firefox and IE7. Worked great all the way around.

The only issue I had was with the Log Off part of the checkout success page, which looked like this:



Easy fix I'm sure, in fact I may remove it altogether.

This is the way Zen should be for those of us who still want to have accounts. My mod is good for those who don't need them, but won't work for sellers of downloads and gift certs, so yours would be good for those people too.

Really great job. Thanks for putting it all together and sharing!

craftzombie, how did you remove the TEXT_CHECKOUT_LOGOFF_CUSTOMER and the broken image link? if you give me a pointer I can check it out. I dont really know php. I am also installing on 1.36.

[mathewchan]

Well I don't know if this reply's gonna be useful to you guys, but I just wanna say that I've tested the mod with an 1.3.5 cart, with manual modification, and worked perfectly.

Will post the modification steps and files soon when I've completed them

Good Luck

[mathewchan]

By the way, thanks KGZotu for writing the module

[KGZotU]

Matthew,

Thank you for your help and support, once you get that posted I'll link it in the wiki.

Regarding PDF Order Center, I'm not going to be able to get to that for the moment. Perhaps this weekend I can get a test server up to see what's what. But, I've got a pretty full week and I'm coming up on a couple of launches, so I'm not entirely sure myself what my schedule looks like.

In the mean time, if anybody has the skills to tackle the problem the relevant flags in the table 'accounts' is COWOA_account and in 'orders' is COWOA_order.

Thanks again for the support.

--Joe