Guess I did not phrase the question right and now that I think about it I will just have to find a way to merge accounts. It is not an issue of saving a cart. It is trying to avoid duplicate customer records in the database for those customers who do not want to "join". I am thinking the best I can do besides incentives and discounts is to ask them one last time if they want to enter a user name and password and become members.
Dan on 3/14/06 12:33, Rick Sanders at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I assign a basket id. One to the user's array, and the other to a domain > array. The domain array also has a timestamp of when the id was assigned. > > If the basket is exists in both arrays, the customer is active. When they > process an order, I assign the basket id to the domain array, then the > basket id to the user as a cookie. > > Even if they close their browser and come back, I can still track them. I > compare the cookie with domain var and compare the timestamp with the time > the user submitted the order. > > Then, if they want to shop again, I just do an Are you sure verification to > the user that they want to submit the order, and they already submitted an > order previously at the time that was stamped. > > Another way to do it would be to use a table in the database to store > temporary shopping carts, but that can get messy. > > > Rick Sanders > President > 902-401-7689 > www.webenergy-sw.com > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Shane Pearlman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 12:35 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: Witango-Talk: Avoiding Duplicate customers > > Hi Dan, > > Since the whole cart sits in a user var array, after a successful purchase I > dump the cart into a new user var array called something like last purchase > and create another user var called last purchase ts. If that user tries to > process another transaction within 15 minutes, I compare the carts and if > they are identical, I shift them to an error cart duplication page and let > them know that if this is not an error, come back in 15. > > It's not the perfect solutions and I'm sure that someone else may have a > better one. > > Shane Pearlman > 831.345.7033 > > -----Original Message----- > From: Dan Stein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 5:39 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Witango-Talk: Avoiding Duplicate customers > > What have people found to be the best techniques for avoiding duplicate > customer entries on a ecomm site where you allow orders without sign up? > -- Dan Stein FileMaker 7 Certified Developer Digital Software Solutions 799 Evergreen Circle Telford PA 18969 Land: 215-799-0192 Cell: 610-256-2843 Fax 413-410-9682 FMP, WiTango, EDI,SQL 2000, MySQL, CWP [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.dss-db.com "I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends." Abraham Lincoln ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf
