My Checkout Without Account Mod

JMS_Music:

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..

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.

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

rstevenson:

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.

TamyA:

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?main_page=product_contrib_info&cPath=40_41&products_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

lankeeyankee:

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.

TamyA:

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. :huh: 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

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.

Hi can someone help, how to enable My Checkout Without Account only mode. What I want is for customers to come directly to this mode without choosing beetwen registration or Checkout Without Account.

Hello,

I figured out how to do something that others might be interested in.

I wanted to hide the default checkout button and only show the "Check out with Paypal express" button, as this is the only payment type I will offer.

My thoughts on this were that I am automatically creating an account for the customer with paypal checkout anyway, so this could be a good way to abbreviate the process.

I haven't fully tested this, but one known issue with this idea is that if you have a "free" check out requirement, you better not do this, as Paypal will not process a "free" payment. (for obvious reasons).

So, the good news is that you can just drop this into your custom template folder (or edit the one you have there if you have done other mods.

What I did:

I edited line 132 of tpl_shopping_cart_default.php and deleted this text:

zen_image_button(BUTTON_IMAGE_CHECKOUT, BUTTON_CHECKOUT_ALT) .

That's it. If I discover I have blown up other aspects of my check out process I will be back to post a warning, but so far it looks good!

Is there a way to integrate this with one page checkout?

I think this is a great little mod. I thought I would post a few things I would change if I had the skills.

It sends a welcome email even if the customer doesn't complete the order.

When you don't require an email salutation in the admin, the words "first name" get bumped up a few pixels so they become out of line with the text field.

Just pitching in my two cents!

leew04:

It sends a welcome email even if the customer doesn't complete the order.

With this mod, your customers should not be getting a welcome email at all if they choose to checkout without creating an account. I myself have not had any welcome emails going to anyone when they choose not to create an account. Not sure why it works correctly for some and not for others. :(

The part about it sending an email even if they do not finish checking out has nothing to do with this mod though. That is how Zen Cart functions normally. An order does not have to be completed for a welcome email to be sent.

For some reason, I, the admin, always get a Welcome email no matter which type of checkout the customer chooses. The customer still gets the Welcome email only when they CO WITH Account. Could this be what's happening to you?

I didn't bother looking for a fix - I just turned off email notification for it. If anyone has a clue as to where to look to fix it, I would appreciate it!

I have it set up in my admin to receive a copy of all the emails sent to my customers.

I just placed a test COWA order on my site. As the admin, I received these emails:

[ACCOUNT CREATED!] Welcome to my shop
[NEW ORDER!] Order Confirmation No: 16856
[EXTRA CC ORDER info] #16856

As the customer, I received:

Order Confirmation No: 16856

On a COWA order, even though I am receiving a copy of a welcome email, the actual welcome email is not being sent to the customer.

Aha! Thank you. I thought there was something wrong with admin receiving welcome emails no matter what. I'm glad to know that it's working the way it should. I was getting sick of deleting all those welcome emails, so I just turned it off in admin. All is good. :smile:

Has anyone experienced a disappearing Header Wrapper along with its background image immediately after installing COWOA?

The main nav bar & every thing below it is unaffected.

http://www.irontail.com/index.php

are there any known issues with this mod and upgrading to 1.3.8?

stevefriedman71:

are there any known issues with this mod and upgrading to 1.3.8?

I upgraded to 1.3.8 a few days ago and have left COWA off of my site for the time being until I can take a look at some of the files more carefully after xmas. People are more willing to create accounts right now because they really want to buy gifts for xmas, so its no big deal for me.

I believe there were changes made to the tpl_login_default file (check the boards) because many of us were having problems with logging in. Zen 1.3.8 has an updated version of that file, but since that file was in our template folder, it was never updated. You have to make sure to upload it to your template folder when you install 1.3.8.

The problem is that the file is part of COWA, so it needs to be updated with COWA code. It doesn't look like it will be that difficult to fix, its just that I have absolutely no time right now. There may be other files too, but I won't know more until later. Since I am not the creator of this mod, I don't know for sure. After xmas, I will try to make everything hunky dory and if all goes well, I'll report back here. :smile:

So is there anyone working to update this mod with the new 3.8 stuff?