Hey Tim, I am really eager to have a look at your latest patches. And I will as soon as I can dig myself out of the holidays. I want to thank you and everyone else who has worked on this for preserving the previous cart for others deployments. I really, truly appreciate it. Happy Holidays!
--- Tim Ruppert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And it just is not working properly in the Demo data > as far as I > know. Rohit, if you have further recommendations > for the checkout > process, please feel free to file them as feature > enhancements so > that they can get tracked. > > Just to be thorough - here are my thoughts on your > recommendations > below: > > 1. The reason there are now a million different > paths thru the > checkout process is that we're trying to give people > who are building > their own applications options to build on. I do > not believe that > the OOTB OFBiz is something that should ever reach > production. Now > people have a number of different paths to build > their own checkout > processes on - and for that - we are thankful. > > 2. This is definitely something that should be > addressed at some > point. Your issue is in JIRA and will be addressed > as soon as > everyone can get to it. Feel free to dig in and > submit a patch for > approval!! > > 3. I am going to have to disagree with you on this > one. Having less > steps are totally going to help the user get to the > part of paying > more quickly - which can only be a good thing. > There is one page for > your personal information and one page to select the > options that are > there for you. If they want to change their credit > card - and thus > their billing address - then they only need to > bounce back to the one > other page and update the info. Pretty easy in my > mind. > > Cheers, > Tim > -- > Tim Ruppert > HotWax Media > http://www.hotwaxmedia.com > > o:801.649.6594 > f:801.649.6594 > > > On Dec 23, 2006, at 9:55 PM, Anil Patel wrote: > > > Rohit, > > Gift card option is not just hard coded, its > enabled through a Store > > settings. > > > > Anil > > > > On 12/23/06, rohit2006 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> > >> > >> Hi Tim. > >> > >> I just tried the new 3 and 6 step anonymous > checkout, and it seems > >> to be > >> working great for a demo transaction. Though even > the new checkout > >> needs > >> gift options to be enabled, shipping is properly > calculated and > >> added to > >> the > >> order total. > >> > >> I you don't mind, i did like to suggest three > things: > >> > >> 1) include an option to enable or disable > anonymous checkout in the > >> product > >> store and also include the option for selecting 3 > step or 6 step > >> anonymous > >> checkout, if anonymous checkout it enable in the > first place. I do > >> not > >> really think its wise to offer the customer a > total of 4 checkout > >> methods > >> including 2 in anonymous and 2 in regular > checkout. Too many > >> options may > >> just confuse the customer. > >> 2) If the Gift option issued can be addressed it > will be great, > >> for those > >> who do not offer it on their stores. > >> > >> 3) from my experience, i have usually seem > billing address being > >> entered > >> in > >> the same page in which the credit card number is > entered, whereas > >> in the > >> new > >> 3 step checkout its entered in 'shipping > options'. Just to think of a > >> scenario when this might cause some problem: a > customers first > >> credit card > >> is not processed and he decides to use another > card which might > >> have a > >> different billing address, the what does he do? > Or, simply the > >> customer > >> decided to use a card with different billing > address when he is > >> reviewing > >> the order, he will probably be confused and have > to work out > >> himself on > >> how > >> to change the billing address, previously > entered. Though its > >> pretty easy > >> thing to do, but more often than not these minor > things cost huge > >> in lost > >> sales. > >> > >> Personally i think the 3 step checkout is simple > and fast and full > >> credit > >> to > >> the efforts of Tim and other involved in it. > >> > >> Rohit > >> > >> > >> > >> JIRA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> > > >> > [ > >> > > >> http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-561? > >> page=comments#action_12460685 > >> > ] > >> > > >> > Tim Ruppert commented on OFBIZ-561: > >> > ----------------------------------- > >> > > >> > Rohit, thanks for applying this as another > issue - and thanks to > >> David > >> for > >> > clarifying that. First of all, I do not think > that Gift Cards > >> have been > >> > working out of the box as a payment method for > a long time now, > >> so I do > >> > not believe that this is being addressed at > this point. If I'm > >> wrong, > >> > please let me know, but for all of the older > versions I have > >> around - > >> this > >> > is feature was not working. > >> > > >> > Secondly, the shipping costs bug is definitely > there and has > >> been fixed > >> in > >> > the latest patch that has a functional 2 and 6 > step process. > >> Once this > >> is > >> > applied it will be working. > >> > > >> >> Errors in anonymous checkout. > >> >> ----------------------------- > >> >> > >> >> Key: OFBIZ-561 > >> >> URL: > http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ > >> OFBIZ-561 > >> >> Project: OFBiz (The Open for > Business === message truncated ===
