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Originally Posted by rsands
come on x-cart...step up to the plate here...this layout of system usernames is dated...emails are used as usernames in 21st centry...this has 12 pages of people talking about this for such a simple mod on your part
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Yes, this is definitely something I would LOVE to see X-Cart take care of. The current system of having to select both a username and enter your email is cumbersome and bound to fail for most individuals. Even before we allowed anonymous checkout, many of our customers created a new account each time they visited the site - no doubt because they had forgotten their username and/or password. If everything was tied to email, customers who register would be much more likely to use their existing account (or be reminded that they do have an existing account). Also, because X-Cart creates accounts for anonymous customers already, if they were based on email addresses it could simply append orders to the existing user account if an email were used again by an anonymouse customer.
Unfortunately, I imagine this may be too big of a change for them to consider in v4.1.x, which they're hoping to phase out in favor of v4.2.x. Still, it seems like this change would be EXTREMELY popular, so I'll cross my fingers and hope someone at X-Cart is listening.