Re: New Account Page / Shipping Calculation Problem

[Ed LaFrance <edlafrance@printexusa.com>]

Cameron Prince wrote -
>
>Hey guys,
>
>Thanks for the help yesterday with the SSL problem on the new accounts
>page... Got that fixed...
>
>What I would like to do now is to move the Customer Info / Billing Info to
>the new accounts page. Is this possible?
>
>This would let customers create a new account and add their address to the
>database before they get to the checkout page. This would allow the checkout
>page to be smaller and the main reason I would like to do this is the
>shipping calculations would be right for first time visitors, unlike the way
>it is now. How is everyone else handling this problem.
>
>Right now if a new customer comes to the store and creates an account, when
>he then sees the checkout page it has incorrect shipping charges because
>Minivend doesn't know his address yet. This bothers me... We could
>potentially loose business if our shipping looks too high, or was shown
>lower on the checkout page than on the receipt page.
>
>I'd prefer to move the Billing Address to the new accounts page, but one
>thing to think about is the TAX javascript that resides on the checkout
>page. It would break it to move it to new accounts, but is there a work
>around?
>
>
>Any insight to this problem would be greatly appreciated.
>
>
>Cameron B. Prince
>Site Specialist


Cameron -

You can create your own new account setup page for ship-to, bill-to,
address and account books - most of this would be the same as the form on
the checkout script, an use [userdb save] to post it the the user's account
record.  It will take some trial and error but it is doable.  Likewise, you
can detach the tax javascript from the state field of the shipping address.
Plan to do some manula reading and checkout.html souce scrutinizing!

- Ed L.

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