Expresso Store: customer registration

Question

I'm looking for any suggestions what to use (addons) to have ability to:

• create customer account during checkout process (as an option)
• capture customer data (billing and shipping address)
• store all completed orders

and if account exists:

• let clustomer to log in
• use stored data (billing and shipping address) during checkout process
• view all completed orders

Thanks for any suggestions

Answer 1

The simplest and free approach would be to use Freemember, also created by Expresso. It offers member registration tags within templates and integrates nicely with Store, allowing you to map custom member fields to Store customer/order fields.

If you need your member profiles to be a bit more complicated, you can use something like Zoo Visitor, which provides similar functionality, with the addition of connecting member profiles to channel entries so any channel fieldtype can be used.

In either case, you can align your user's flow through the site to register and then direct over to templates with your cart and checkout using the return="" parameters on the registration tags.

Answer 2

To create a user account during checkout you can use the register_member='yes' parameter on the exp:store:checkout tag or submit a register_member field:

https://exp-resso.com/docs/checkout_tag.html#register_member_yes