Auto-Creating User Accounts
If a customer is not a user on our site, we can automatically create a user
account for them once they have placed their order; this saves the
inconvenience of using an anonymous purchase policy where the user has to log
in or register, but it gives the user the added convenience of having their
details saved for future orders.
This is something Doug wants to enable to make things easier for regular
customers on this site. The fi rst thing we need to do is install the module.
The module is called EC Useracc and is listed in the E-Commerce Uncategorized
group of modules.
Now under E-Commerce configuration we have a new option called User Account;
let's take a look at it. This has the following settings:
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Confirmation e-mail
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Welcome mail
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Days to confirm expiry
The Confirmation e-mail is to see if the customer wants to create a user
account; this email expires after the number of days set in the Days to confi
rmation expiry setting has passed, and the Welcome mail is the email sent when
the account is created. These emails can be confi gured on the Mail page.
These s ettings don't actually enable the feature though; we have installed the
module and looked at the global settings, but to actually get it to work we
need to set how we would like each product to work in relation to this module.
If we go to edit any product, there is a new section, which was not there
previously, called User account provision; this is what we need to change.
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