My Checkout Without Account Mod

charmedbytina2:

The 1.3.8. version of this mod doesn't seem to be available any more. :(
Thanks.

1.3.8 is available here: http://www.zen-cart.com/wiki/index.php/Contribution:Integrated_Checkout_Without_Account

I am using 1.3.8 and has installed COWOA. However, my COWOA customers end up with a blank page: index.php?main_page=logoff,

The same happens when a registred customer tries to logout.

I've checked all the files I was asked to overwrite and everything seems okay. I've also checked that all files are where they should be. Can anyone help as this driving me crazy.

Many thanks in advance.

PUREchocolatetruffle:

I am using 1.3.8 and has installed COWOA. However, my COWOA customers end up with a blank page: index.php?main_page=logoff,

The same happens when a registred customer tries to logout.

I've checked all the files I was asked to overwrite and everything seems okay. I've also checked that all files are where they should be. Can anyone help as this driving me crazy.

Many thanks in advance.

COWOA has nothing to do with the logoff page. What other mods have you installed? Have you tried uploading the logoff page again from the regular Zen install files? Perhaps your files didn't transfer properly.

I have 1.3.9e and Integrated Cowoa (JTheed version) and working great except for the old problem of a customer buying with COWOA and then buying again and trying to register and Zen telling customer that they already have this email address.

I have tried to look through the threads, but can't find anything.

Any help would be great

Tia

Paul

FatGuyinAZ:

Not sure how many of you have noticed the welcome email sent to anyone that checks out with this module has a coupon number listed for 10% off, which expired in 2007.

Here is the welcome email info:

I did a search of all the files installed with this module and in the /includes/language/english/YOURTEMPLATE/no_account.php file on line 39 it says this:

define('EMAIL_TEXT', 'With your account, you can now take part in the <strong>various services</strong> we have to offer you. Some of these services include:' . "\n\n" . '<li><strong>Permanent Cart</strong> - Any products added to your online cart remain there until you remove them, or check them out.' . "\n\n" . '<li><strong>Address Book</strong> - We can deliver your products to another address other than your own. This is perfect to send birthday gifts directly to the birthday-person themselves.' . "\n\n" . '<li><strong>Order History</strong> - View your history of purchases that you have made with us.' . "\n\n" . '<li><strong>Products Reviews</strong> - Share your opinions on products with our other customers.' . "\n\n" . 'Your Discount Coupon - As a thank you for joining our community, we've included a 10% discount coupon. You may use this coupon once to get 10% off any order, large or small. It is good through December of 2007. The coupon code is '08825bbc50'. To use this code, enter it during checkout in the coupon entry field.' . "\n\n");

I know you posted this a long time ago, but thanks for this. I just installed COWOA, tested it, and freaked out a bit as I saw this in the welcome email. Thanks again.:clap:

Ok. I have a quick question for folks that are actually USING cowoa on current LIVE trading sites.

Roughly what percentage go for the checkout without account option?

Do folks in general believe it helps to reduce the levels of shopping cart abandonment.

I do like Zen Cart, but the current checkout process at the moment is just way too long and far too many pages for customers to endure. :huh:

I am running Zen Cart 1.39d and have installed COWOA. I am having a very difficult time. When someone clicks checkout they only get two options: to register or to log in. There is no COWOA option at all. Other than that the checkout operates perfectly, complete with the green arrows and progress bar.

In my Admin panel there is no listing whatsoever for COWOA. I suspect that if there was I could turn on the COWOA option.

I have gone through all of the files numerous times and am confident that all is right there. I suspect it is a database problem. I tried running the uninstall COWOA.sql and I receive a white screen with this:

1054 Unknown column 'query_builder.query_name' in 'where clause'
in:
[DELETE FROM zen_query_builder WHERE query_builder.query_name = 'Permanent Account Holders Only' LIMIT 1;]
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.

When I try to re-run the COWOA install sql I get this:

1062 Duplicate entry 'Permanent Account Holders Only' for key 2
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.

Is there a 'back door' in a file where I can turn COWOA on? I am at a loss as to what else I can try. Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

craftzombie:

COWOA has nothing to do with the logoff page. What other mods have you installed? Have you tried uploading the logoff page again from the regular Zen install files? Perhaps your files didn't transfer properly.

You're absolutely right and your idea worked spot on. A new upload of the logoff page cured the problem. Many, many thanks for your advice.

horsetags:

I have 1.3.9e and Integrated Cowoa (JTheed version) and working great except for the old problem of a customer buying with COWOA and then buying again and trying to register and Zen telling customer that they already have this email address.

I have tried to look through the threads, but can't find anything.

Any help would be great

Tia

Paul

If you had posted this in my thread for my version of COWOA
(http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=156174) you would have gotten an answer quicker.:D Anyway, here is the fix for that.

In /includes/modules/create_account.php look for this line around line 134:

     $check_email_query = "select count(*) as total
                            from " . TABLE_CUSTOMERS . "
                            where customers_email_address = '" . zen_db_input($email_address) . "'";

Change it to read like this (the and line is added)

    $check_email_query = "select count(*) as total
                            from " . TABLE_CUSTOMERS . "
                            where customers_email_address = '" . zen_db_input($email_address) . "'
                            and COWOA_account != 1";

This way when it searches thru the e-mails, if the record belongs to a COWOA customer, it gets skipped.

I'm sure this is simple, I just can't find it....

for some reason the definitions file isn't loading after the mod was isntalled...

I'm showing

box_title_customer

for the box heading of the customers box.... I'm going to double check and make sure all files were uploaded properly... anybody run into this before

Okay, I found the issue...

The package has the definitions file under the following direcotry

\includes\languages\english\extra_definitions

It must be under the admin defines as follows:

/admin/includes/languages/english/extra_definitions/

Not sure if that was just me messing it up....but it's fixed in case anyone else the issue

KGZotU:

Alright, I've made the following modifications.

Fixed: IE button issues and cleaned up button code in general. Conditionally removed account/order invoice references from email. Conditionally removed product update notification and account references from checkout_success.

These are reflected in the store and the zip file.

--Joe

I've been working on my site for some time. I am now in Authorize.net testing mode for my new merchant account, and should go "live" any day now.......

I'm working on a few big issues that I want to fix first, and the MAIN issue is the "creation of an account" requirement. Although I'm sure this is a good thing, I KNOW this will run off a lot of customers (it would run me off).

So I was looking for a add-on that will streamline the process, and still give the customer the OPTION of creating an account. Doing a search, I found this thread, and I am happy to find it! I will certainly download and install this on my test site, and eventually onto my project site.

I will write back to you and tell you how this is going. I'm a new Zenner, so installing modules is kind of scary. But I've already added a couple, and they don't seem to be exceptionally difficult.....

I finally got this installed. I was using Fast and Easy Checkout before and I installed it over a year ago and have been using it with my current template. I decided to create a new template and somehow lost everything and couldnt find the old files. I decided to try COWA because that's all I really need. It was difficult to install with all of the extra mods I have, but I finally got it and tested it and it is working great.

The only problem I have is the "Newsletter and Email Details" section that asks HTML or text email. To customers this would appear that they are forced to signup for the newsletter if they checkout without an account. My question is, how do I disable this section alltogether? I know it doesn't add to the newsletter because I tested it, but I would like to remove the section and just have it send the emails text only.

dgarrett20:

I finally got this installed. I was using Fast and Easy Checkout before and I installed it over a year ago and have been using it with my current template. I decided to create a new template and somehow lost everything and couldnt find the old files. I decided to try COWA because that's all I really need. It was difficult to install with all of the extra mods I have, but I finally got it and tested it and it is working great.

The only problem I have is the "Newsletter and Email Details" section that asks HTML or text email. To customers this would appear that they are forced to signup for the newsletter if they checkout without an account. My question is, how do I disable this section alltogether? I know it doesn't add to the newsletter because I tested it, but I would like to remove the section and just have it send the emails text only.

I just changed it to Email Details in the english language file. That should work fine.

I have installed this mod, but I am having some problem with it.

So far the problem I found is

When I try to checkout without account, I filled all the information -name,phone#,shipping address etc...then I hit continue checkout, all those info i just put in are all gone, and stays at the same page, just like you refresh a page.

I have 3 php scripts is visible on the page

1. Home :: NAVBAR_TITLE

just above the green arrow showing
TEXT_ORIGIN_LOGIN

3. right to the continue checkout bottom

TITLE_CONTINUE_CHECKOUT_PROCEDURE
TEXT_CONTINUE_CHECKOUT_PROCEDURE

I have v1.3.9d ,PHP Version: 5.2.14 (Zend: 2.2.0)

thank you eveyone

vip_peng:

...then I hit continue checkout, all those info i just put in are all gone, and stays at the same page, just like you refresh a page.

it just sounds like you have some files missing due to an error during upload. try reinstalling. and make sure you installed the sql files too.

craftzombie:

it just sounds like you have some files missing due to an error during upload. try reinstalling. and make sure you installed the sql files too.

I already fixed, i forgot to change 2 folders name to my own template name

I tried a few days ago to install the COWA module to my test site.

When I check out, it goes to a page that requires for me to either sign up for an account, or log in.

So, today, I reinstalled it. I did not install the SQL patch again, as I'm sure it's still there. Same result.

Obviously this is not working.

**The installation procedure I used:
**

1. I removed from the install/includes directory the YOUR_TEMPLATE directory, as I have no customized/override templates in this test site. I will rename this directory to match my override directory and include it when I actually put this in my project site (if I ever get to that point-- ha ha)-- anyway, that's what the instructions said to do......

2. I did NOT DO STEP 1a (editing the tpl_header) because I could not **find **any custom template directory(ies) that had a header_tpl file. For the short term, I didn't think this would matter, as the instructions state this is only for the purpose of preventing the *My Account *from showing up after the COWA users enter their order number and e-mail. --I thought I'd worry about this issue later)

3)I installed the SQL patch. This was the first time I"ve ever done that. I copied the stuff in the install package, and pasted it in there, and then hit "send" ..... (yes, I made sure it ended with a ; )

4. I added the define('FILENAME_ORDERS_STATUS'); to the includes/filename.php file. I put it as the last line on the page.

5. I went to the Admin, configuration, and there is no COWOA selection available. I could not set the three parametrs as specified.....

Any help would be appreciated............I'm determined to add this module...

:shocking:

How any customer do the shopping without account using zen-cart 1.3.8a. can any one tell me???:smile:

Tabish

JDog21:

..... When I check out, it goes to a page that requires for me to either sign up for an account, or log in....

It is supposed to do that. Checkout will always take you to the login page because its giving the customer the opportunity to create an account if they want to. After installing COWOA, there should be a Guest Checkout section added to the login page (when there are items in the cart). They'll have to click on that to enter the COWOA phase.

If you want to make your cart strictly COWOA and do not want anyone to create real accounts, you can bypass the login page and have the checkout button take them directly to step one of checkout (name, address, etc..). See http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showpost.php?p=522629&postcount=439.