[harknell]

I have a version of X-cart running the 4.0 branch of the code. I currently have anonymous checkout enabled for my customers. I see that the 4.1 branch has something called "fastlane" checkout--is this a better designed version of the anonymous checkout from the 4.0x version? I tried looking on the x-cart demo site, but it seems to be set to not allow fastlane to work (it asked me to create an account right off, which I don't want my customers to have to do).

Basically what I want to know is is the workflow of fastlane simply a user selects their items, goes to checkout, gets a confirmation of their costs, then fills out the payment form and submits payment? What I want is the user to know the entire amount and then be able to simply fill out a payment form after this, not before this, with the option to make an account at that point. Making a user make an account before they see their costs for the items (including shipping and tax) is just a barrier to getting someone to buy my stuff. I'd love to move to a better system than the regular anonymous system in the 4.0x branch, but can't tell if "fastlane" is really better.