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Trevor
Is forcing account logon to control a shopping cart seen as
anti-social by customers?
I know amazon use cookies, and use dbs only for actual ordering.
I have several etailing sites with no carts, and ordering via phone.
I am looking at adding online ordering. To allow online ordering, I
need a merchant account which is tied to one URL. This means that my
cart and database control has to be on a general accounts site.
Cookies can normally only be read by the writing URL, so I don't see
cookies as useful. The remaining option would be a account logon to
build a cart.
eg
Site1 buys item1 ==> Cart after logon at Accounts Site ==> Return to
Site1
Site1 buys item2 ==> Cart Accounts Site ==> Return to Site1
etc
Site1 Checkout ==> Order Accounts Site ==> Bank SECURE SITE
Accounts Site ==> Despatch
Trevor
anti-social by customers?
I know amazon use cookies, and use dbs only for actual ordering.
I have several etailing sites with no carts, and ordering via phone.
I am looking at adding online ordering. To allow online ordering, I
need a merchant account which is tied to one URL. This means that my
cart and database control has to be on a general accounts site.
Cookies can normally only be read by the writing URL, so I don't see
cookies as useful. The remaining option would be a account logon to
build a cart.
eg
Site1 buys item1 ==> Cart after logon at Accounts Site ==> Return to
Site1
Site1 buys item2 ==> Cart Accounts Site ==> Return to Site1
etc
Site1 Checkout ==> Order Accounts Site ==> Bank SECURE SITE
Accounts Site ==> Despatch
Trevor