I have installed the Kitten sample site and tried a few orders just to see how it works.
One thing that I cannot understand is how are the customers saved.
I have seen 2 customers defined in the initial sample data, I see that can add new customers using the back-end interface, but I don't see where are the customers from orders.
Also, I would like to see and extend their addresses during checkout.
The kitten site did not have a membership login. What you are seeing is probably someone created a membership member via the back office with the Membership Type of Customer (by default in Merchello). Merchello handles Umbraco's MembershipService.Saved event and creates a Merchello Customer for a Member of allowed types (defined in the merchello.config).
So for a front end implementation, add standard Membership and Registration functionality as you would in Umbraco normally. If you want to use the defaults, your member should be of type 'Customer'. Merchello will manage everything from there ... so if the customer (member logs in) and does some shopping, the sale will be associated with the Merchello customer / member.
We had to do it this way, since we can't know 100% whether or not a site that wants to use Merchello already has Members and wants their members to be Merchello customers.
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Hi Guys,
I have installed the Kitten sample site and tried a few orders just to see how it works.
One thing that I cannot understand is how are the customers saved.
I have seen 2 customers defined in the initial sample data, I see that can add new customers using the back-end interface, but I don't see where are the customers from orders.
Also, I would like to see and extend their addresses during checkout.
Thanks a lot for any help.
You are doing a great job!
Hi All
Has anyone solved or have more informaiton on this yet?
Cheers Paul
The kitten site did not have a membership login. What you are seeing is probably someone created a membership member via the back office with the Membership Type of Customer (by default in Merchello). Merchello handles Umbraco's MembershipService.Saved event and creates a Merchello Customer for a Member of allowed types (defined in the merchello.config).
So for a front end implementation, add standard Membership and Registration functionality as you would in Umbraco normally. If you want to use the defaults, your member should be of type 'Customer'. Merchello will manage everything from there ... so if the customer (member logs in) and does some shopping, the sale will be associated with the Merchello customer / member.
We had to do it this way, since we can't know 100% whether or not a site that wants to use Merchello already has Members and wants their members to be Merchello customers.
Make sense?
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