Log In - Checking

[big_garryb]

Hi,
I know what i mean - but don't know ive i can explain it proper.....lets begin.

first i use Actinic Developer.

On the website i have a login button for existing customers to log in. My problem is that some customers go through the whole buying process without logging-in - this means sometimes if they forget to login, they retype all their address details to order.

What i would ideally like is this: on click to checkout - the system checks if you are logged in already - if yes, you proceed to the checkout.... if not logged in you go to a login page.

I use Play.com and they do this quite well - click and see their logging in screen: www.play.com

Another way i thought of was having the checkout button linking to the logging in screen (like play.com). But if a customer is already logged in i thought this might annoy them as everyome would be taken to this screen.

Any thoughts / help is very much appreciated!!!!

Kind regards,
Garryb

[cdicken]

You could select the 'Request Log-in on Shop Entry' box. This will show people a log in screen the first time they try and enter the store. This box is in 'Business Settings | Ordering'.

[big_garryb]

I use a script that shows the top 10 selling items. its shown on all pages - so if someone clicked on that they would go straight to that product - effectivly bypassing the login -

[cdicken]

If the link to the product uses the search script, then they will be shown the login page before they see the product.

In other words, if it is a link like this....

http://your.URL/cgi-bin/ss00000x.pl?PRODREF=12345

Where:
·	http://your.URL/cgi-bin is the URL of your CGI-BIN
·	ss00000x.pl is the name of your search script with the 'x' replaced with your CGI ID number
·	12345 is the product reference of your desired product.

... then you're laughing.

[jharrison]

Hi Gary

Aplogies for this mail as its not really in relation to your query. I noticed that you have a script that pulls out your top ten selling items?

Could you tell me more? Is it automatic? Could it be adapted to show ten NEW items?

I have a thread running: http://community.actinic.com/showthr...&threadid=5849

Would you be able to help?????!

TIA