Allowing Customers to check out without registering
 

Is there a thread on this already? I'd like to be able to allow people to check out without having to make an account

Re: Allowing Customers to check out without registering
 

Make sure you have 'disable anonymous checkout' UN-CHECKED in General Settings.

Re: Allowing Customers to check out without registering
 

thanks!

Re: Allowing Customers to check out without registering
 

I have this "unchecked" on both our sites, and yet when I go on to buy a customer at the point I click on check out I get asked to either sign in or register.

I had just had a brilliant shopping experience on another site, I clicked on check out, I clicked on pay by paypal, I entered my paypal account details and it automatically pulled up my details from paypal and I hit confirm. 4 clicks. So easy!

On our sites I would have to register first in order to check out which means an extra 20 plus fields to load - is it possible to replicate this kind of simplicity with x-cart?

Thx

Ladybird

Re: Allowing Customers to check out without registering
 

Well, if you used Paypal as a payment method then yes, you could probably do the same thing. Of course your customer would need to have a Paypal account or they would have to "register" anyway. Also, Paypal has about the highest merchant account fees, and not being a bank they don't have to play by the same rules that banks do.

Re: Allowing Customers to check out without registering
 

i did this which is fine, but then at checkout i have: login or register or paypal payment options.

what i want is to just checkout and do payment without having to register or login and just pay with a credit card or bank transfer (not paypal), is this possible? :?

Re: Allowing Customers to check out without registering
 

Same problem here...

I have "disable anonymous checkout" UNchecked and customers are still forced to enter username/password. Customers are calling me and complaining about it.

Any ideas?

Re: Allowing Customers to check out without registering
 

Are you sure they are mandatory? These fields show no matter what but if "disable anonymous checkout" is unchecked they are not mandatory, customers can omit them. You can put a note or something just above these fields that registration is optional.

Re: Allowing Customers to check out without registering
 

I've told customers to skip them, and it doesn't work.

Just today, someone called me and said they didn't want to create a username and password, and weren't able to skip the username/password fields when entering shipping/billing info. X-cart popped up with a message saying that their password must be 7 alphanumeric characters, and they hadn't even entered one.

At first I attributed this to customer error, but it happens often enough - and even to me - that I can't ignore it. I even thought, oh this person forgot they'd already created a username and X-cart recognizes other parts of their info. I don't know. I'm baffled. I checked again, and the box is UNchecked in my General settings.

Re: Allowing Customers to check out without registering
 

Yes they are optional in your cart. A bug in 4.3.0? You may consider upgrade to 4.3.1, it may fix it. Also just so you know - there is an image on the siet called with http that pops up security warning under https

Re: Allowing Customers to check out without registering
 

Wow, thanks for checking! How nice of you! So, what's with these customers? ;-) And why can't I even check out anonymously myself?

Don't suppose you remember which image? I don't get those warnings. I tell you, I'm about to go to a library or something so I can be as anonymous as possible and see this kind of stuff. LOL

Re: Allowing Customers to check out without registering
 

There is at least one - the big image with the candles on front page. If you have warning messages in the browser suppressed you will not see them but you can check the padlock in the status bar

Re: Allowing Customers to check out without registering
 

hmmm... I don't have any candles on my front page. Soaps? Thanks for that tip. I didn't know about that. I've only been using X-cart for 2 months - It's almost not a full-time job anymore...

Now, can you or someone else kindly refer me in the manual to how to handle these images that are kicking up https security warnings? I certainly don't want that happening. I'm only semi-geeky... I'm only an HTML and CSS person. Beyond that I can only follow along politely ;-)

Really appreciate your help!!

Re: Allowing Customers to check out without registering
 

Sorry soaps yes.
Don't hard code the url for the image. Omit the http://www.domain.com part, use relative paths, xcart will do the rest. For this one you can use

lgimages/grace543.jpg

Re: Allowing Customers to check out without registering
 

Steve, THANK YOU. Impossibly easy. Gosh, I really appreciate all the help.

Re: Allowing Customers to check out without registering
 

I have 4.2.2 - and when I do the same (uncheck disable annonymous) I get the same problem - the customer has to register.

Is this also a bug in 4.2.2 ?, is there a fix.

(I love x-cart - but it seems whennever I need to make a change - there is always a bug)

Re: Allowing Customers to check out without registering
 

4.3.2 has the same problem. I wanna remove User Signup from the whole site completely. Very frustrating.

Re: Allowing Customers to check out without registering
 

Sorry - I should have updated.
It isnt a bug - it is just x-cart being x-cart ie WEIRD.

The 2 pages are the same.
Go into Admin, Languages, English, filter on 'lbl_flc_new_customer_text'
change the text you see in the box to something like for example - TEST CHECKOUT etc etc etc etc

then save and go and try it out.

Obviously make sure that before you do this you have annonymous disable checkout - is unchecked

I would also advise always take a backup before you make any changes to a live system and always test on a backup system first.