Yes - there are quite a few ways you could do this.

First, you will want to create your own CustomerContext for your custom membership provider so you can create a Merchello customer or Merchello Anonymous customer based on your authentication provider.

All that is required to do that is to create a class inheriting from Merchello.Web.Pluggable.CustomerContextBase, build out the abstract methods (which basically translate your membership provider interactions to Merchello - three methods if I remember correctly.

To register your class with Merchello, update the Merchello .config file

  <object alias="CustomerContext" type="[YOUR CLASS], [YOUR LIBRARY]" />

For the addresses, you could either override the CheckoutAddressController in fasttrack (or simply replace it using the same base classes with your own completely custom instance) and then reference the new endpoint in your views

e.g.

 @using (Html.BeginUmbracoForm<[YOURCONTROLLER]>("SaveBillingAddress", new { area = "[YOUR_AREA]" }, new { data_muistage = "BillingAddress" }))

If you need something more sophisticated than that, you can also totally swap out the individual CheckoutManager(s) by creating classes that inherit from their respective base classes and again updating the Merchello.config with the new assembly references. My guess is you won't need to go that far, but I thought I'd mention it. If you think your going to go down that route, we can start a thread on that =)

Hi Rusty,

First, you will want to create your own CustomerContext for your custom membership provider so you can create a Merchello customer or Merchello Anonymous customer based on your authentication provider.

All customers will be authenticated, because they will have already logged in to gain access to the shop. What do you mean by "create a Merchello customer"? Do I have to use the "Merchello Customer" member type?

OK, I have this for CustomerContext:

public class CustomerContext : CustomerContextBase
{
    public CustomerContext(UmbracoContext umbracoContext) : base(umbracoContext)
    {
    }

    public CustomerContext(IMerchelloContext merchelloContext, UmbracoContext umbracoContext) : base(merchelloContext, umbracoContext)
    {
    }

    protected override bool GetIsCurrentlyLoggedIn()
    {
        var umbracoHelper = new UmbracoHelper(UmbracoContext);

        return umbracoHelper.MemberIsLoggedOn();
    }

    protected override string GetMembershipProviderUserName()
    {
        var currentMember = Membership.GetUser();

        return currentMember.UserName;
    }

    protected override string GetMembershipProviderKey()
    {
        var currentMember = Membership.GetUser();

        return currentMember.ProviderUserKey.ToString();
    }
}

Is that all I need?

OK, I have this for CustomerContext:

public class CustomerContext : CustomerContextBase
{
    public CustomerContext(UmbracoContext umbracoContext) : base(umbracoContext)
    {
    }

    public CustomerContext(IMerchelloContext merchelloContext, UmbracoContext umbracoContext) : base(merchelloContext, umbracoContext)
    {
    }

    protected override bool GetIsCurrentlyLoggedIn()
    {
        var umbracoHelper = new UmbracoHelper(UmbracoContext);

        return umbracoHelper.MemberIsLoggedOn();
    }

    protected override string GetMembershipProviderUserName()
    {
        var currentMember = Membership.GetUser();

        return currentMember.UserName;
    }

    protected override string GetMembershipProviderKey()
    {
        var currentMember = Membership.GetUser();

        return currentMember.ProviderUserKey.ToString();
    }
}

Is that all I need?

And regarding the checkout process, all I need is a confirmation of their details on screen as they won't need to enter them (it comes from their membership record). I would like to make the forms read-only though, just for future-proofing! Currently, a user is logged on in order to access the shop pages, but their details do not appear on the form - do I need to override CheckoutAddressController in order to populate the form fields? Do I need to view the FastTrack source to see what needs to be done? Is there any relevant documentation available?

Umm, I am pretty sure it's a custom provider, as it connects to a remote MySQL database. This is the web.config setup:

<membership defaultProvider="UmbracoMembershipProvider" userIsOnlineTimeWindow="15">
  <providers>
    <clear />
    <add name="UmbracoMembershipProvider" type="MySiteMembership.CustomMembershipProvider" minRequiredNonalphanumericCharacters="0" minRequiredPasswordLength="8" useLegacyEncoding="true" enablePasswordRetrieval="false" enablePasswordReset="true" requiresQuestionAndAnswer="false" defaultMemberTypeAlias="Member" passwordFormat="Hashed" connectionStringName="MemberTies" />
    <add name="UsersMembershipProvider" type="Umbraco.Web.Security.Providers.UsersMembershipProvider, Umbraco" minRequiredNonalphanumericCharacters="0" minRequiredPasswordLength="8" useLegacyEncoding="false" enablePasswordRetrieval="false" enablePasswordReset="true" requiresQuestionAndAnswer="false" passwordFormat="Hashed" hashAlgorithmType="HMACSHA256" />
  </providers>
</membership>
<!-- Role Provider -->
<roleManager enabled="true" defaultProvider="UmbracoRoleProvider">
  <providers>
    <clear />
    <!--<add name="UmbracoRoleProvider" type="Umbraco.Web.Security.Providers.MembersRoleProvider" />-->
    <add name="UmbracoRoleProvider" type="MySiteMembership.CustomRoleProvider" connectionStringName="RemoteDBConn" />
  </providers>
</roleManager>

The provider is defined as:

public class CustomMembershipProvider : MembershipProvider
{
    ....
}

If I don't use the custom CustomerContext, I get an error (would have to switch back to find out what the error was).

No, I'm saying it doesn't work if I use the Merchello version. I get this error when using the default Merchello CustomerContext:

An IMember model can only be retreived when using the built-in Umbraco membership providers

Regarding CustomerContext, all I'm saying is that I have to create my own version because I am using a custom membership provider and that causes the error.

What I'm not sure about is whether I am doing the right things in the functions that I have to override.

The aim is to get the "customer" details and populate the details for the order process. I do not want the customer entering any personal data - actually, they do not need to as nothing will ever be delivered, only collected in person. The website is for a club and orders will be made available to collect on "club night".

Regarding member records - I have changed the config ("memberTypes") to use the standard "Member", is that OK? Do I need to do any extra coding to support that? What will happen in the "Customers" section in Merchello?

Hi Rusty, Hi Gordon,

I have been trying for a while now to customise the checkout process that ships with fast track.

I have got the site up and running, products, basket and a payment provider all configured and working.

What I'm trying to do is:

Firstly: Change the order that the data is collected from the user, so instead of Billing Address, I want to Collect the Shipping address then billing address (if its not the same as the shipping one)

Secondly: I want to add an extra step in the process, a post code address finder.

To keep things simple, I want to do this on a completely separate page, get the address, then pass it to the Shipping address page.

Those are the only things I want to change, everything else is all good.

I have all the source code hooked up to my visual studio solution and have just tried to swap the logic so shipping address comes first, but I can't quite get it to work.

Can you help me out here guys? Just a general idea of the steps I need to take to do this.

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