Guest checkout not available for downloadable products - blocking design decision
Posted: Sat Nov 18, 2017 2:17 pm
I'm very new to OpenCart and wanted to search the forum for discussion about this, but the forum won't let me search at all, it keeps telling me to wait (n) seconds -- and n increases every time I try.
Anyway...
I thought this was a bug until I read the tooltip over the option in the system settings. The guest checkout option is intentionally disabled when a downloadable product is in the cart. This prevents me from moving forward with my intended implementation of OpenCart, because I want to be able to sell my downloadable products (my novels and other digital content) without requiring buyers (readers) to create an account as part of the process. A guest checkout is every bit as meaningful for me for a digital product as it is a physical product.
My first question is "why was this decision made" but a more relevant question is "can this functionality be changed so I can move forward with this project?" I'm sure I could find the code myself to modify, but hacking core for any pre-built site software is something I try to avoid.
Anyway...
I thought this was a bug until I read the tooltip over the option in the system settings. The guest checkout option is intentionally disabled when a downloadable product is in the cart. This prevents me from moving forward with my intended implementation of OpenCart, because I want to be able to sell my downloadable products (my novels and other digital content) without requiring buyers (readers) to create an account as part of the process. A guest checkout is every bit as meaningful for me for a digital product as it is a physical product.
My first question is "why was this decision made" but a more relevant question is "can this functionality be changed so I can move forward with this project?" I'm sure I could find the code myself to modify, but hacking core for any pre-built site software is something I try to avoid.