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Thread: Account Creation

  1. 02-11-2010, 01:06 PM #1
    dellend is offline Junior Member
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    Hi,

    We have an existing AspDotNetStorefront website, and we'd like to handle account creation a little differently. Basically, we'd like to give our users the ability to create accounts without shipping/billing addresses, and to be able to add shipping/billing address at checkout if necessary. Can this be done using appconfigs, or will this require heavy customization?

    Thanks!

    -Dave-
  2. 02-11-2010, 06:07 PM #2
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    It would require customization, but I don't think heavy customization. You could just remove all of the address information from the createaccount page so that they weren't required to enter it. During the checkout process, it will prompt them for addresses if there aren't any tied to their account.
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  3. 02-11-2010, 09:33 PM #3
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    George, as always, is quite correct.

    It doesn't require heavy lifting at all to accomplish this. We just finished this for another customer with minimal amount of work. The downside is that the flow isn't super intuitive for your customers though without modifying the shipping page.

    We ended up modifying the shipping page to identify if the customer had a shipping address properly defined and if not, seamlessly redirecting the customer to the address page. Otherwise, they just get a message telling them that they need to enter a shipping address. But even this step wasn't too difficult to accomplish.

    And NONE of it required source code license, you can do it all in the code-behind pages (so this won't work with Express version).

    Good luck!
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  4. 02-12-2010, 11:09 AM #4
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    Excellent, thanks guys! I appreciate your responses!

    Have a great day!

    -Dave-
  5. 04-22-2010, 10:58 AM #5
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    Just completed this customization using config parameters and adding some extra logic to the createaccount.aspx.cs and slight mod to the createaccount.aspx, so that the billingpanel can be visible or not. That will control the validations. So no actual code has to be removed from the page. Also this prevents the cart from breaking and ruining the flow. It was also possible to make it so that the feature could be turned on and off easily.