My Checkout Without Account Mod

[gypsydogg]

How can I remove the side boxes from this mod during the checkout process. I found a hack to remove the side boxes during checkout for the default zencart, but it does not work when checking out without an account, please advise.

[ronwong]

I wonder if any had used COWOA on 1.3.6 then upgrade to 1.3.8. Is there anything need to take note of or problems will encounter?

[Throwdown]

Hi, been looking back but can't seem to find anything on this... I'm new to ZC, but have tried to really dig on this one before asking the question...

Through my FTP I think all of the file overrides/replacements goes fine (my site is new so I haven't really touched much). When it comes to installing the SQL patch (I'm opening the COWOA.sql in notepad and copying and pasting into the sql field, after hittting send I'm receiving an error of:

1062 Duplicate entry 'Permanent Account Holders Only' for key 'query_name'
in:
[INSERT INTO zen_query_builder ( query_id , query_category , query_name , query_description , query_string ) VALUES ( '', 'email,newsletters', 'Permanent Account Holders Only', 'Send email only to permanent account holders ', 'select customers_email_address, customers_firstname, customers_lastname from TABLE_CUSTOMERS where COWOA_account != 1 order by customers_lastname, customers_firstname, customers_email_address');]
If you were entering information, press the BACK button in your browser and re-check the information you had entered to be sure you left no blank fields.

Then trying with checkout it brings me to my default error page... www.throwdownperformance.com

Thanks in advance for any help!

[sbergkakmp]

I cant seem to get past the "Billing Information" page. I fill everything out and when I click "Submit" it reloads the page.

see here: http://www.highwaycreations.com

Help is appreciated.
Thanks
Steve.

[CUSTOM_UK]

Quick question on COWOA, for all those that may have possibly implemented it.

I only use PayPal as my payment provider and although I can use PayPal Express, users need to open a PayPal account to be able to use that, so I am looking for an rapid checkout option to minimise potential shopping cart abandonment.

My question is this - how many of the fields can I remove to still enable COWOA to work? Ideally I only want a name and email address field, then to move straight onto the next page to input a destination country to work out the shipping costs. PayPal and many other payment processors already have all the customers details, so I really don't want them entering it all over again on my site. Has anyone tried, or achieved this at all?

Although I love Zen-Cart to bits, its long drawn checkout processes inevitably cost us all sales. Other shopping cart softwares out there simply let you add items to a cart, choose the shipping destination from a drop down, then click straight out to a mainstream payment provider. Simple but effective.

Any ideas, thoughts, clues, or potential solutions would be greatly appreciated.

[sbergkakmp]

I did get this to work. I'm not sure I can remember all the steps I did, but it's working now. Steve B.

[CUSTOM_UK]

After careful evaluation of the options available and seeing that checkout with account options typically only remove the password input, but still leaves all the other inputs on the form to still be filled in, I have decided on a more radical solution.

I am going to simply remove the checkout button completely from the cart page and just have PayPal Express and Google Checkout buttons showing. That way potential buyers will never even have the opportunity to endure those tedious form filling exercises.

Of course this option will only work with sites whose only method of payment is PayPal or Google, but until someone comes up with a more graceful and effective solution, that is the direction I am going in with my own sites.

[alagus]

I have the same problem as sbergkakmp, I can't get past the "Billing Information" page.
Another problem I have is that the State choice is gone when cowoa is activated, no text, no combo box, just an empty text field.

Does anyone have a solution to these problems?

[beyre]

The client had me uninstall COWOA ....

I obviously got all the files changed appropriately, but there is no uninstall.sql file of any sort.

What ill effects would there be if I just left the database as is with COWOA accounts in them? I am I correct to assume that if I did do an uninstall in the database, then those COWOA account order histories would also be wiped out? Would it be best to just not do any uninstall of COWOA in the database?

[znrinarz]

Just installed COWOA and tried to login to my site. Getting the following SQL error msg:

1064 You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ':email AND COWOA_account != 1' at line 9
in:
[SELECT customers_id, customers_firstname, customers_password, customers_email_address, customers_default_address_id, customers_authorization, customers_referral FROM zen_customers WHERE customers_email_address = :email AND COWOA_account != 1]

Was there a syntax error in the original SQL patch for this mod??