See now that's the way to do it. Quite a few of the developers out there have hacked up the checkout so it works like that, it's much friendlier
X-cart should definately take note. They keep adding stuff but they never seem to refine what's needed. I'd trade all of the new features in x-cart 4.0 for a version of 3.5.X that was cleaned up it's of more value to both myself and my customers.
X-cart is great feature wise, but they've still not learnt to stop adding features and concentrate on the more important parts, there's still loads in x-cart that's been neglected in favour of adding another feature.
Areas that immediately jump to mind are:
- Custom Invoice and dispatch note printing that's easy for the *admin* to change
- Lable printing that's actually got a use
- Cleaner less clunky customer registration that doesnt fit everything everything onto one screen (these things put customers off)
- Friendlier Login screen with easy redirection to the page they came from or to one chosen by the admin
- Quit with the use of programmer terminology (example "Credit card checksum is wrong"... use words like "credit card number is not valid")
- CVV2 portion needs help links by default
- *cough* "your order is being processed in white screen unformatted times text" *cough*
- While the product screens in x-cart were reformatted to break them up they've managed to make product population that use those fields complete torture, it's far far far far too slow
- A check out like jons modification as standard or at least give the option of "nice checkout" or "original checkout"
Anyway nice work Jon.