My Checkout Without Account Mod

[craftzombie]

I'm having the same problem. The buyers are not receiving a email confirmation, and it has to do with the period at the end of their email address.

So when they click "Confirm Order" it goes to a white page that reads "Email Error: Could not instantiate mail function."

Is there a fix for this???

Also, in the admin, when I try to use the "email customer" button, it cannot send to them, cos the of the address with the period.

The old version of this mod uses a period at the end of the email address, not the new version. I have been using this mod with no problems at all for several months now, both on 1.3.6 and 1.3.7. What version of this mod are you using? What version of Zen are you using? Have you tried reinstalling the mod? 9 times out of 10, a file didn't transfer properly.

[ft11]

I actually reworded the login, so as not to say "check out".

[slitter]

Hi people, the mod is upand running without problems, the 5 language packs are almost finished and just need a little fine tuning...

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If anyone wants a language pack for this mod (German, French, Italian, Spanish) or if any of you have any amendments drop us a line we will incoorperate them and then stick the completed item in a zip for all....

Good luck to all

Richie

I need a Spanish and French translation of the COWOA mod. Are these language packs included in the zip file as described above? If not, would it be possible to send me the zip file?

much appreciated..

[TamyA]

I have this contribution working fine on my site.

I had a customer who placed an order using COWA and selected the Paypal payment, a couple of days later she tried to login to her account which she can not since she did not create a password.

She tried to create an account but she was told an account already exist with her email address, i suspect it the data that paypal pass back to the site which did that but i am not sure, any had that problem?

I logged in her account using the contribution "Encrypted_Master_Password" successfully but i was not able to reset or creat a password for her since i do not know the current password for that account.

Any idea or help in making COWA to have a password and the user can login? Thanks.

[rstevenson]

Any idea or help in making COWA to have a password and the user can login? Thanks.

The whole point of COWA is to make the buyer think they've only given you what's needed to ship the product, without creating an account. That's what COWA means: CheckOut Without Account.

If they can create a password, then the illusion is lost, and the point of installing the mod in the first place is lost.

COWA needs to be a part of Zen core code, and the ability to 'upgrade' a user from COWA status to account status just by adding a password needs to be part of Zen core code too. I don't think it would be possible (meaning cost effective) to add this to Zen from the outside. It needs to be part of the core code.

Rob

[TamyA]

The whole point of COWA is to make the buyer think they've only given you what's needed to ship the product, without creating an account. That's what COWA means: CheckOut Without Account.

If they can create a password, then the illusion is lost, and the point of installing the mod in the first place is lost.


Rob

Rob,

I know COWA is an illusion/lie to the customer.

I think you missed part of my question, since the customer used paypal and paypal transmit the data back to the site and now the customer can not create an account because he/she told that they have an account with us.

[lankeeyankee]

Rob,

I know COWA is an illusion/lie to the customer.

I think you missed part of my question, since the customer used paypal and paypal transmit the data back to the site and now the customer can not create an account because he/she told that they have an account with us.

Was it paypal express? there is a setting in the admin panel that deals with an account being automatically created if the customer doesn't already have one and this can be set to true or false. Have you tried changing it to false?

Regarding resetting the password, can't the customer click the "forgot your password" link on the login page? It should email them a new password. If that doesn't work for any reason, have you tried the mass reset customer password mod? You reset their password by inserting a mySQL statement into you database through phpMyAdmin. Here's the link:
http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?ma...roducts_id=531

You just need to look up their customer ID in the admin/customers panel and insert that into the SQL statement along with the new password.

Let me know if that sorts it out for you. I think that everyone the uses paypal and COWA will run into this problem.

Matt

[TamyA]

Was it paypal express?

The payment type as indicated in the order is PayPal (not sure if that paypal or paypal express since i have both options on the site).

there is a setting in the admin panel that deals with an account being automatically created if the customer doesn't already have one and this can be set to true or false. Have you tried changing it to false?

Can you be more specific on where should i go to set that option

Regarding resetting the password, can't the customer click the "forgot your password" link on the login page? It should email them a new password.

She said that she did that and nothing happened (what is nothing happened? i do not know since i can not replicate the process.

If that doesn't work for any reason, have you tried the mass reset customer password mod?

I did not use that mode (i will try it later on) but this is what i did, i logged in her account using the master password and i tried to change the password but i could not since the current password required. I tried the master password i used to login to the account and it did not work, i tried to leave it blank but i got a message that the password should be at least 5 characters long.

[lankeeyankee]

Can you be more specific on where should i go to set that option

In the admin panel go to modules/payment. Click on paypal express and choose the 'edit' button. Scroll down the edit box until you see the option to set the automatic account creation and set it to false, then save your settings. See if that does it, I haven't tried but I saw that function and thought it might help.

The encrypted master password mod seems to be limited in scope since you can only log into a customer's account but you can't reset their password which seems to defeat the point. The other mod should work better for you.

If nothing else, you can always delete the customer through your admin panel so she can start over.

Good luck!

Matt

[TamyA]

Thanks Matt.

I set it up to false, i will have a friend try it for me since i was never been able to get the sandbox account to work.

I appreciate your help.