Virtuemart 3.2.4
Joomla 3.7.4
PHP 3.7.11
Hi,
This may be a very basic question, but I can't figure it out.
VM1 version, in "view cart" page use to show only the list of added products. If a client chose to checkout, it was sent to a page with the options "Already registered? Login here" and "new member? Please register".
In the version I'm using (3.2.2), cart's page seems a bit confusing for registered users.
A user adds a product to cart; goes to cart page. In the top there is a field to login and another one to add/edit a shipment and billing address. However, one may think that needs to add the address again. Same thing when "checking out now", because users are also sent to a page to add/edit billing address information.
Is it possible to have an option like in VM1 (where the user had clearly to choose between one or another)?
Thank you.
You can lay out the page however you want to using template overrides, or maybe use one of the many onepage checkout plugins.
Thank you for your answer.
I can't code, so make that kind of override is not that easy for me.
I'll check the existing plugins.
You can take a look at VP One Page Checkout - https://www.virtueplanet.com/extensions/vp-one-page-checkout Style-1 and Style-2 layouts of the plugin gives you exactly what you want.
Thank you Jumbo!. I was precisely taking a look at that one.
I'm just sorry that VM lost this feature.
Actually, maybe we need just a bit more description. Of course the upper area is meant for this job. And of course, I invested a lot ours in vm2 and some in vm3 so that all data between account and cart is "the same".
Thank you, Milbo.
Take this website as an example (if there isn't any product please add one first):
http://www.petmanias.com/index.php?option=com_virtuemart&page=shop.cart&product_id=6582&Itemid=64
Choose "terminar encomenda" (checkout). From there you are taken to a page with two options: login or create new account.
For me, this process is less confuse for users: cart view first, then two clearly different options to choose from and what each one is suppose to do.
I think is redundant to have login/create user in cart's page, where the checkout button takes them to a page with those options anyway.
From my users behaviour I noticed that the ideal should keep de VM1 process: review cart > login or create account > shipment options.
Nevertheless, I was able to improve a bit my cart view page. I added a "Already registered?" before login section and "Not registered yet?" before the add/edit shipment address section.
I'll also try to remove those sections from cart's page, making them only available when customers press "checkout", but I still need to figure out how to take users back to the cart after login (but only if they login from checkout page).
So the ideal would be: review cart -> login -> shipment options.
You can use a javascript and hide the account creation and display the login part only with a button that show the account creation on click.
Check how amazon or ebay do this for eg.