Creating new account upon checkout completion...

[WriterDanGaidin]

Creating new account upon checkout completion...

[WriterDanGaidin]

I guess a more appropriate question in the case of #2 above would be:

Am I doing this account creation thing right?

Is there a different, more direct, way of creating a customer account after a purchase is made? Right now I'm running through this set of steps when a customer clicks the "Finalize Order" button.

1. Check availability of an account with the provided email address using a Register function call (/rest/cart/register)
   -- If not available, show an error message, (begin again)
   -- If available, or if there is already an account with that email address but it was created that day (handles server errors after checkout is submitted), an account is "created" and the cart is now logged in (proceed to Step 2)

2. Submit the checkout request (/rest/cart/checkout)
   -- If Checkout fails, begin again
   -- If Checkout completes, all is well ( proceed to Step 3)

3. Account gets populated by UltraCart after the order is completed

I sometimes tend to overcomplicate things if I'm not careful. Then again, this comment may just offer some more clarification on what I'm trying to accomplish.

Thanks.

Dan

[WriterDanGaidin]

Revisiting this...

At the time I submitted this ticket I was worried about a customer registering an account without completing the checkout process and then being able to use that account as a normal account would. Since then, I've devised a way to validate an account based on the purchase of a membership item, and this concern is now moot.

There is still the issue of the register method that I don't quite understand where making a call to /rest/cart/register returns without any errors if I pass it an email and valid password for an account that has already been made. Is this expected behavior? I'm just not clear on why that would be the case.

Thanks for all your help.

[perrytew]

Dan,
I reviewed the code. You should be receiving a 400 response code (bad request) with a header UC-REST-ERROR that says "cannot create account. email already exists.". Can you confirm that you do not? There might be a bug there.

[perrytew]

Closing due to inactivity. Dan, please reopen if the issue still exists.