Expresso Store, automatic member registration fails

Question

I am using the latest version of Expression Engine, Zoo Visitors and Expresso Store 2.

I would like to use the automatic member creation functionality that comes with store 2.

However I'm having some difficulties.

I have the following code in my template (unrelated stuff removed)

{exp:store:checkout
    form_class="form-horizontal"
    return="store_example/order/ORDER_HASH"
    error_handling="inline"
    error_delimiters='<span class="help-inline">|</span>'
    payment_method="PayPal_Express"
    register_member="yes"
}


  {field:register_member} <label for="register_member">Register Member Account?</label>

  <div>
    <label for="password">Password</label>
    {field:password}
  </div>

    <div class="form-actions">
        <a href="{path='store_example/checkout2'}" class="btn">Back</a>
        <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Place Order" class="btn btn-success" />
    </div>

{/exp:store:checkout}

After completing payment on Paypal I get the following errors, which area presented in the standard ee error screen.

The form you submitted contained the following errors

You must submit a username
You must submit a username
You must submit an email address

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It says in the documentation that the username will use the order_email field. I have not explicitly requested that a username be entered.

Not sure where I'm going wrong here. Just wondering if Zoo Visitor is impacting on this process.

I'm expecting the user to receive an order confirmation email, and also an email with their account details.

Any help greatly appreciated.

Thanks Dave

Answer 1

IF you are using the register a member tags you need to make sure that you have either a username or email address field in your template populated and both a password and a password confirm field.

Username is the users email address:

{field:register_member} <label for="register_member">Register Member Account?</label>

{!-- if you want people to be able to login with their email address you would the following (this is the approach I prefer) --}
<div>
    <label for="order_email">Email Address</label>
    {field:order_email}{!-- this field is required --}
</div>
<div>
    <label for="password">Password</label>
    {field:password}{!-- this field is required --}
</div>
<div>
    <label for="password_confirm">Confirm Password</label>
    {field:password_confirm}{!-- this field is required --}
</div>

With a custom username:

{field:register_member} <label for="register_member">Register Member Account?</label>

{!-- if you want people to be able to create a unique uername you would do the following --}
<div>
    <label for="order_email">Email Address</label>
    {field:order_email}{!-- this field is required --}
</div>
<div>
    <label for="username">Username</label>
    {field:username}
</div>
<div>
    <label for="password">Password</label>
    {field:password}{!-- this field is required --}
</div>
<div>
    <label for="password_confirm">Confirm Password</label>
    {field:password_confirm}{!-- this field is required --}
</div>

From the Exp-resso Documentation:

Member accounts will be created based on the order_email, and the email address must not already be used for a member account. After creating the member account, any existing orders tied to that email address will be assigned to the new member.

Member accounts will only be created if a password fields is submitted. In addition, the username and screen_name fields are optional

Answer 2

It's possible that Zoo Visitor is interfering with Store's member registration functionality, although I don't think we have had any reports of problems with this.

It may be worth testing your templates on a new site, without Zoo Visitor installed, to see if you still get the error.

Alternatively, you could simply add a login/register step to your checkout process, which avoids using Store's member registration functionality entirely.