Allowing Customers to check out without registering

toolexperts · #1 03-04-2008, 11:41 AM

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

balinor · #2 03-04-2008, 11:44 AM

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

toolexperts · #3 03-04-2008, 11:47 AM

thanks!

ladybird · #4 02-15-2009, 02:26 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by balinor

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

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

JWait · #5 02-15-2009, 02:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ladybird

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

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.

krtwn · #6 03-04-2010, 08:35 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by balinor

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

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?

sarvasoap · #7 04-06-2010, 02:14 PM

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?

cflsystems · #8 04-06-2010, 06:34 PM

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.

sarvasoap · #9 04-06-2010, 06:41 PM

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.

cflsystems · #10 04-06-2010, 06:58 PM

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