Fast and Easy Checkout

[pcnovice]

How many times did you copy & paste the install.sql? Did you have other add-on installed previously or this is the plain vanilla Zen-Cart?

Yes I may have copy & pasted it more than once. When the module didn't show up in Admin I repeated the step. In that case, how do I remove it?? Will the uninstall.sql patch do the trick?

[scatzc]

Yes I may have copy & pasted it more than once. When the module didn't show up in Admin I repeated the step. In that case, how do I remove it?? Will the uninstall.sql patch do the trick?

I never tried to remove FEC (yet), so all I can do is quote documentation.html:

Uninstall

1. Delete all uploaded files;
2. Run the uninstall.sql (if you simply want to deactivate but keep the installation, read tips below);
3. Remove edits to tpl_main_page.php;

Tips
Fast and Easy Checkout for Zen Cart is activated by loading an extra_configures file called checkout.php before the filenames.php file. This causes definitions for the checkout links to be defined to direct customers to the new integrated checkout page. To deactivate the script without running the uninstall.sql and deleting all of the files, simply rename or delete the file includes/extra_configures/checkout.php.

Are you sure you want to remove FEC?

[scatzc]

Since upgrading to FEC 1.7.3 I get a low stock warning on every order. The warning is set to zero, and stock messages what now have 0 stock send a normal message incliding "Stock: 0:" but items that I still have just say "Stock: " . Any ideas? Anyone else have this issue?

Yes, I have the same exact issue (running FEC 1.8.1) and I came to the same conclusion you arrived at
http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showpo...&postcount=764

Apparently, this is an attempt to include support for another addon (written by the same author who wrote FEC) called Stock by Attributes.

Since I didn't install this addon (and I don't need it), I will just remove that elseif clause.

Going to test it now...

[scatzc]

Since I didn't install this addon (and I don't need it), I will just remove that elseif clause.

Going to test it now...

Yup. It works.

However, I am very hesitant to install FEC on the operational store. That's because I noticed a significant slowdown in the entire system when FEC is installed.

This is especially noticeable (and scary!) after hitting the 'confirm the order' button, where a blank page is displayed with a message:

your order is being processed, please wait...

(Is it possible that the css_javascript_loader is what's causing this delay?)

I am not sure whether replacing multiple checkout pages with long-delay single page checkout is going to viewed favorably by customers.

Are there statistics about the difference in conversion rate between the two approaches?

[web_shop]

Hello

I have downloaded and installed Fast and Easy Checkout module.
and followed all the instructions. But the "checkout" page is showing empty.

Any help is appreciated

[tuliaoren]

There are some thing wrong on http://www.notus.biz/en/.
Please have a check.

Warning: include() [function.include]: URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration in /home/Piotr/domains/notus.biz/public_html/en/index.php on line 13

Warning: include(http://www.notus.biz/en/css.php) [function.include]: failed to open stream: no suitable wrapper could be found in /home/Piotr/domains/notus.biz/public_html/en/index.php on line 13

Warning: include() [function.include]: Failed opening 'http://www.notus.biz/en/css.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/local/php5/lib/php') in /home/Piotr/domains/notus.biz/public_html/en/index.php on line 13
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[scatzc]

Another problem, this time a discrepancy between FEC's documentation and what really happens in actuality:

Documentation.html provides the following tip, among others:

Fast and Easy Checkout for Zen Cart is activated by loading an extra_configures file called checkout.php before the filenames.php file. This causes definitions for the checkout links to be defined to direct customers to the new integrated checkout page. To deactivate the script without running the uninstall.sql and deleting all of the files, simply rename or delete the file includes/extra_configures/checkout.php.

Well... renaming includes/extra_configures/checkout.php doesn't really restore the store to its previous state (default Zen-Cart multi-page checkout). Instead, upon clicking the 'checkout' button, the user is redirected to a non-existent page (index.php?main_page=FILENAME_CHECKOUT) and displays Zen-Cart's "Page Not Found" page.

After struggling with 3 such quirks, my impression is that FEC 1.8.1 is far from being mature (unlike the excellent Ceon SEO URI addon).

[JTheed]

Hello

I have downloaded and installed Fast and Easy Checkout module.
and followed all the instructions. But the "checkout" page is showing empty.

Any help is appreciated

What are you running it on, Windows, Linux, Wamp Server?

[JTheed]

Yup. It works.

However, I am very hesitant to install FEC on the operational store. That's because I noticed a significant slowdown in the entire system when FEC is installed.

This is especially noticeable (and scary!) after hitting the 'confirm the order' button, where a blank page is displayed with a message:

(Is it possible that the css_javascript_loader is what's causing this delay?)

I am not sure whether replacing multiple checkout pages with long-delay single page checkout is going to viewed favorably by customers.

Are there statistics about the difference in conversion rate between the two approaches?

It seems that different people have different problems. When I hit Confirm Order, it takes less than 1 second to come back. The longest delay is when it is getting shipping costs from 3 different shippers, which is to be expected.
If you had install a previous version of FEC, it can be problematic to get a newer version working as some of the old files get left behind and the uninstall.sql file doesn't appear to get rid of everything in the database. I went thru my database with phpmyadmin using it's search function and found any thing that had FEC or FAST on the title or in the description and removed it, Then the updated version reinstalled without any problems.

[scatzc]

It seems that different people have different problems.

That's typically the case for most complex systems (like operating systems). I had hoped that FEC would not be behaving as such.

When I hit Confirm Order, it takes less than 1 second to come back. The longest delay is when it is getting shipping costs from 3 different shippers, which is to be expected.

Mine doesn't involve any shipping (all downloadables). I am not even testing it with PayPal (yet). What I reported was testing freebies with the "ZenCart FREE Charge Card".

If you had install a previous version of FEC, it can be problematic...

Nope. My install is 100% fresh, directly to FEC 1.8.1.

Some of the delay can be attributed to combining 3 different steps into one. That is perceived delay and is understandable.

However, the slowness is apparent even when clicking a product link to read its description. This could be a deal breaker.

I wouldn't mind installing FEC on the operational store, tracking the results and, if it turns out to worsen things, uninstall it -- if I could restore the entire system to exactly the previous state it was before.

The problem is that restoring to exactly the previous state is extremely difficult, given that some core files are being modified, database tables (and dependencies!) have been added and new customer/purchases records will be added as well. This makes reversal extremely difficult. In my view, once FEC has been introduced to an operational store, there is no turning back.