My Checkout Without Account Mod

[VisExp]

I am still trying to figure out how would I move the COWOA tab above the New Customers and Returning Customers tabs?

A search of the forum and I found a solution in this thread:

http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showth...ferrerid=60883

What a wealth of information there is on this forum. Thanks to all those who contribute with information, advice and mods!

[wwiii]

I am using ZC v1.3.8 with Integrated Checkout Without Account MOD.

When tesing I noticed that if test customer uses COWOA that they still rcv a Welcome, thanks for opening an account email.

This creates 2 issues for me.

1) Customer was just told they were checking out without opening an account but they are sent an email thanking them for creating account. a bit contradictory.

2) In my "Welcome, thanks for creating an account" email that is sent to all new customers that open a new account I send them a coupon for $10.00 (one time, new cust. only). This creates an easy exploit since every time someone repeatedly COWOA they would in theory rcv a $10.00 coupon!

Can i fix this?
Is it possible to prevent this? Or to send them an email that is different than the email that someone who actually opens a real account is sent?

Thx

[Steven300]

Customers who choose the COWOA route shouldn't ever receive a welcome email. Admin will receive a copy of it though, if configured, and that copy will contain info about coupons etc. The customer shouldn't receive this. Is it possible you received an admin copy of it? If you did actually receive a welcome email as a customer then something is wrong with your installation of the mod, or maybe it's conflicting with other mods.

[wwiii]

thanks steven300,

i'll double check that.

Sorry bout double post.

[zglider]

I've tried to read this thread for an answer to a simple question, but with 78 pages it's hard to find. Here it is:

Can the create account option be turned off entirely with COWOA? Not just made to be optional?

I did read the wiki, and do know that the original purpose was to make it optional, rather than eliminate it. I also read that craftzombie originally set out to eliminate accounts rather than make creating accounts optional However, her signature link for the code to do that links back to COWOA.

So this is kind of a circle!

I'd like to have account-less ordering only. But I also want it to handle that gracefully.

It would seem that COWOA has been tested enough to eliminate confusing emails, etc. so I would definitely prefer COWOA over a few code mods that don't address these issues -- that seemed to be the state of development in the earlier craftzombie no-account mod thread.

Thanks greatly for any help!

[Steven300]

Hi zglider, post 439 might help.

[zglider]

Thanks so much, Steven300!

[yakbuttertea]

I just added that contrib that works great.
The only issue I have with it is:

if the customer returns to buy something else then at the moment of checking out the shopping cart shows the previous purchased shopping cart and not the current one.

It seems to me to be an issue with cookies but I don't know how to reset cookies or handle cookies besides eating them :) .

Anyone that can help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks

[craftzombie]

I also read that craftzombie originally set out to eliminate accounts rather than make creating accounts optional However, her signature link for the code to do that links back to COWOA.

Yeah, sorry about that. Its an old post and I have removed the link from my signature, especially after getting involved with the COWOA mod. I felt that COWOA was a better option. The old "mod" (if you even wanna call it that) was a dirty little hack. It did work though, but COWOA is better. And with post 439 you can easily make it into strictly COWOA if someone wants that. I decided to forget about the old mod long ago because I have wholesale customers who need to log in. Total COWOA wouldn't work for me.

[suekay]

I've just installed COWOA mod succesfully and included the add on:
TO AUTOMATICALLY LOG THE COWOA CUSTOMER OUT OF THEIR SESSION UPON CHECKOUT_SUCCESS
but as it state in the readme:

*Leaves a 'Log Out' link in the header of checkout_success, but there's no ill effect if they click it.

Does anyone know how to rectify this? If I click on a product category the log off changes to login. I notice on my oscommerce cart (that I am upgrading to the amazing zen cart from) that there is a 'continue' button that changes the log off to login and returns you to the home page.

Could I do a similar thing here?

Many Thanks