Login and customer account

[stonda]

Hi. More and more clients ask for a "real" customer account, means the possibility to log on line at the beginning of the process or whenever they want, the possibility to modify the password, to retrieve their order on line, as we have now on numbers of ecommerce software. So I think that I will have to propose this to client very soon. So my question is simple : Is this possiblity on the Actinic's whishlist ? Is it possible to know if we will have this on the Actinic soft, and when ?
I spent some time to see how the "well-known customers" sites proposed by actinic (http://www.actinic.co.uk/press/key_customers.htm) proposed this login system. I find a very interesting one at the bottom of the first page : http://www.lexmarkonline.co.uk/.
The only problem is that site is built with XT-Commerce !!! very kind from Actinic to advertise for the competitors.
Thanks

[cdicken]

Morning Didier

All the features you mention are very much on the wish list, but would be at least a year away. It could well be that if your client needs these features right away, it's not going to be possible to do it in Actinic.

[stonda]

Thank you Chris. Would it be possible to be more specific about the date ? "at least a year" can be 2 or 3 years, and it will be too late for me. Are these features only on the wish list, or is there already some projects and people working on them ?
Thanks

[fergusw]

but would be at least a year away.

That's tantalising Chris, you tease!


Didier, there is work afoot by a few on the community to try and develop tools that will be able to achieve, to some degree, the interactivity of live data within Actinic based on things like orders and customer accounts.
It is based around Gabriel's excellent ActSYnc toolkit for Actinic.

Watch this space for more info.

[stonda]

Thank you Fergus. I eagerly await news about these new tools. On the Gabriel website I can get information for Actinet, but nothing about ActSYnc. Can you give me a link for more information. Thanks a lot

[fergusw]

SQL Sync information can be found here:
SQL Sync for Actinic

however this is just the developers back-end system. There is work afoot on delivering an integration suite using this tool to deliver something of what you are requesting.

[stonda]

Thanks Fergus for your answer.
Best regards