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[funnytshirts]

I've played around with checking and unchecking "Disable anonymous checkout". What's the difference? I can't seem to find one. I'm trying to allow customers to add to cart and checkout without having to register. I want to allow them the opportunity to register only if they want to and only want email address to be mandatory and want every other question to be optional. People don't want to complete the sale if theyhave to give up so much personal info, especially phone number.

[lildawg]

Yes but remember you are also using that info for your own security (credit card fraud etc.) but what is making evrytning mandatory is if statements. You will need to take them off the parts you no longer want mandatory.

Anyway the differnce is that when you allow anonymous the user DOES NOT have to create a unique login. So you will get instead of a user lildawg I will be anonymous1 and the next user would be anonymous2 and so on. When you do not allow anonymous you will then have each user have a unique login name like "lildawg or funnytshirts".

To see what files are included in checkout just switch to webmaster mode and the go to your register page and you will see all the .tpl files that make up that page.

[funnytshirts]

so if i want them to be able to create anonymous1 & anonymous2, etc, i would check or uncheck diable anonymous checkout? i assume i would uncheck it, right?

that makes sense about needing the bill to info for the merchant account. i forgot about that. and of course i'd need the ship to info.

what is the best way to make something not mandatory, like the phone number? that is one thing that i think scares potential buyers off is requiring their phone number.