Date of Birth is required?!? How can I change that?

Date of Birth is required for creating new accounts?!? How can I change that? I don't want to even ask for date of birth, much less require it. Please advise. Any information is greatly appreciated.

I'd turn it off in the Customer Details then ...

Date of Birth
Display date of birth field during account creation and with account information
NOTE: Set Minimum Value Date of Birth to blank for not required
Set Minimum Value Date of Birth > 0 to require

Oh, you're so cool with your large brain. Thank you!

I just type really really fast wrong and fortunately with only 26 letters and 10 digits ... how hard can it be to get the combinations right? :lamo:

Ajeh:

I'd turn it off in the Customer Details then ...

Hi,
I have another problem with this account creation.
I didn't even notice until I had a snotty email from a couple of customers who informed me that they were MRS & not MS & they were very proud of it!!!
I've never been married, so I didn't even notice when I was trying stuff out that there are only buttons for Mr & Ms!
Where do I change that to M & F, like it is in the Admin section?
I did a search for Ms in Admin Tools Developers kit, but that was daft because you can just imagine how many instances there were!
I put it in capitals & it still came back with stuff like " There seems to be"
Anyway, I tried MR instead & found ALMOST as many files, but I have changed included/languages/english.php & includes/languages/english.create_account.php
by copying & pasting the bit for MS & changing the MS to MRS.
I tried the same in includes?modules?create_account.php but the login page on the site disappeared, so I changed it back.
When I altered the bit that said "EMAIL_GREET_NONE" to "EMAIL_GREET_MRS" the page remained, but I couldn't see any other differences.
I am doing this on my local wamp so it isn't set up for emails & that change should have altered the email greeting thing so perhaps it did work - but why wouldn't it let me add another line to read MRS & leave the NONE as was?
Anyway, I've changed that file back to how it was to start & there are just the 2 previous that are changed.
I need to be able to create a radio button saying MRS, so where would that be?
I'd be grateful for any help, even if it's how to get rid of MR MS or change them to M F.
Thanks in advance
Gay
http://www.artyfactsforcrafts.com

This thread my help, Gay :

http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=85340&highlight=salutation

gayelston:

Hi,
I have another problem with this account creation.
I didn't even notice until I had a snotty email from a couple of customers who informed me that they were MRS & not MS & they were very proud of it!!!

As soon as you ask 'Miss' or 'Mrs' you'll get even more snotty emails.

*"What business is it of yours whether I'm married or not?" :laugh:

*Women - you can't win.:no: :rolleyes:

GSIS runs for cover .... :P

Best way to solve this is to take off salutation question in admin, configuration, customer details.

If the question is not there they cannot complain about it.

Marc

I have a question along the same lines. I'm trying to simplify the checkout process.... (having removed, the salutation, birthdate, etc.)

Is there an option to NOT register, but checkout as a guest?

It seems some are shying away from registering COMPLETELY. eeeek!

Tropical Shop:

I have a question along the same lines. I'm trying to simplify the checkout process.... (having removed, the salutation, birthdate, etc.)

Is there an option to NOT register, but checkout as a guest?

It seems some are shying away from registering COMPLETELY. eeeek!

Search the forums. There's been discussion about how to rename the registration process as entering billing/shipping.

Think about it. If they don't enter their information, how are you going to send them their merchandise and track their order?

afo:

Search the forums. There's been discussion about how to rename the registration process as entering billing/shipping.

Think about it. If they don't enter their information, how are you going to send them their merchandise and track their order?

yes, I see the point... I would want to log back in and track my orders as well.. Was just wondering if a "guest" option would help customers feel more secure.

Thanks for the reply! I'll keep digging and learning :smartalec: lol (there is SO much to know!)

Hi guys, I have a question. I don't normally ask for the date of birth or middle name of my customers. A customer from New Zealand wrote me and sent a screen shot complaining that we asked for his DOB. So I wondered where he had this issue and it is when he gets to the PayPal credit card payment stage.

My question is - should I require customers post their DOB at sign-up so that it auto-fills in PayPal, or will the settings I chose in the image above remove that from the requirements at the PayPal payment stage?

I'd like to either initially get it to auto-fill during sign-up, or remove it all together. Unless PayPal just requires it now for my international customers and in that case maybe there's nothing I can do?

Well just an update for anyone who is interested. I called PayPal and they say that those added questions come from our cart software. So it's on the side of ZenCart. I need to have the customer try and check out again and see if it's still there since making the minimum values 0.