Hello: I was recommended amember as a checkout solution for my site. I currently sell a .pdf guide. On my current checkout payment confirmation page, there is a button that people click to download the guide. 1. Can I use the amember software to do something like this? Is there a way to bypass membership signup, and only take order information? I'm trying to make checkout as short and simple as possible for potential customers. 2. Can I perform the checkout without needing their phone number? 3. Are the pages customizable? Like, could I get my webguys to design the checkout pages so they match with the site? Thanks! David Mistermanpower.net
David, 1. Sure aMember can handle this but unfortunately signup page can't be bypassed. 2. Sure aMember does not require this. 3. Yes.
Hi David, Additionally to Alexander's post I'd like to add to #1: You can tweak amember completely so that the signup becomes just a checkout page where they enter name and email address (I haven't heard of many anonymous checkouts so I guess name and email is ok, right?). * To tweak it, you let amember generate the password and username. * The email with the username/password that's send, you change the wording, something about that they used these username/password to login to grab possible future updates - I don't say you will, but you might or could do it, right? * You switch off the address details or make them at least NOT required. * you edit the language file (put them into the custom language file so the changes are preserved after an upgrade/update) so that 'membership' phrases become 'customer' and 'product' phrases. * What you then have is: 1) the sales page (not amember), 2) signup page (amember) 3) payment page (a/o paypal, 2co, authorizenet, 1shoppingcart, or other 3rd party payment) 4) thank you page (amember) - if you use Ken Gary's amThankyou plugin you can even have the download link appear on that page. * Now, you could grab the output of the signup page and change it, then you can put your sales copy above the signup/checkout details, that would cut out even one more page - but personally I wouldn't do that I hope this helps. Erwin P.S. I'm using amember for a lot of different product/services and most aren't memberships, but I love it. It's easy (imho), it's stable, and support is EXCELLENT!