Account login (in cart?)

[shiver]

We have pricing scheduals set up on our site and therefore require to use accounts.

We would like to be able to have customers login as part of the checkout process to recieve their discounts, they all know what rate they're on so there's no need to login whilst browsing and there fore slow things down drastically using ss & cgi.

Is this posible?

Thanks

[I-CC]

Account customers needs to be logged in when adding items to there carts I thinks, so not possible for them to add items to the cart and then login at the checkout phase (unless Actinic can provide some workaround to this).

[shiver]

Does any one know of a work around, I really don't want to have every link passing the cgi bin it would kill the site.

[I-CC]

Having logged in customer served via the cgi-bin should not bring the site to a grinding slow hog, well not normally anyway.

Do you have slow connections for your site under cgi operations which might be worth speaking to your host about to see if they can speed things up maybe, i.e. installing the mod_perl and md5 that Actinic recommends for hosts to help keep perl operations running nice and quick.

[shiver]

Thanks for your help.

Does this mean what I proposed to do with the login at cart is not possible, I'm sure I've seen it somewhere?

PS thanks for answering my other post on CGI also, I'll enquire about updates with my host.

[I-CC]

As far as I am aware, Account Customers need to be logged in before they can add items to their carts at the account customer rates (i.e. if discounts are applied etc), so by adding items to their carts prior to logging in I am pretty sure will not work, but have you possible tried it to see if by some fluke it works and transposes the cart values to the account customer levels and keeps it in there carts, but do not think it will happen Sorry

[shiver]

I'll give it a try, hope springs eternal

[shiver]

What I've managed to do so far is add a buuton to the cart to allow login, this works as far as the login goes and then fails on the redirect back to the cart.

What should the link for section ID be? ie how do you link to the cart page for the redirect (in red below)?

If it was from the home page it would be index.html....

<a href="http://www.domain.com/cgi-bin/ss000003.pl?SECTIONID=**********"><img src="http://www.domain.com/acatalog/account-checkout.gif" width="179" height="20" alt="checkout for Account holders" border="0"></a>

any ideas?

[casper]

Is the customer login not only available in Business and not Catalogue?

Michael

[shiver]

Thats correct as far as I know, I've never used catalogue.

[shiver]

What I've managed to do so far is add a buuton to the cart to allow login, this works as far as the login goes and then fails on the redirect back to the cart.

What should the link for section ID be? ie how do you link to the cart page for the redirect (in red below)?

If it was from the home page it would be index.html....

<a href="http://www.domain.com/cgi-bin/ss000003.pl?SECTIONID=**********"><img src="http://www.domain.com/acatalog/account-checkout.gif" width="179" height="20" alt="checkout for Account holders" border="0"></a>

any ideas?

[cdicken]

The SECTIONID has to be an HTML page. I'm not sure there is any way to go from a perl script to a perl script - that's why we have to use bounce pages in Actinic stores.

I don't think you are going to be able to do what you want - unless of course the page you link to is a bounce page which takes you to the shopping cart....

[shiver]

Thanks Chris that works great, except the price gets dropped?

I've used a bounce page with the following code;

you will now be redirected back to the shopping cart to continue your puchase as a logged in customer.

If you are not automatically redirected <a href="http://www.i-domain.com/cgi-bin/ca000003.pl?ACTION=SSLBOUNCE&URL=https%3a%2f%2fwww%2ei%2ddomain%2ecom%2fcgi%2dbin%2fos000003%2epl%3fACTION%3dStart">click here</a>.

!!<
<script language="JavaScript"><!--
window.location.href = 'http://www.i-domain.com/cgi-bin/ca000003.pl?ACTION=SSLBOUNCE&URL=https%3a%2f%2fwww%2ei%2ddomain%2ecom%2fcgi%2dbin%2fos000003%2epl%3fACTION%3dStart';
//--></script>
>!!

[shiver]

Actually I've just refreshed and everything seems to work ok.

Thanks to everyone who helped.