Anonymous Shopping Lists?

[Scott.]

Hi All,

We sell directly to the consumer (B2C) and have a question regarding shopping lists. At the moment the wish list/shopping list is stored based on a user creating and signing into an account but is there a way to use it anonymously? In our current site we found that when we allowed consumers to add to their wish list/shopping list anonymously (without sign-up), our conversion rate ended up increasing. When faced with a sign-up page to add to a wish list, it was simply abandoned by the consumer in the vast majority of cases.

We also found that we had to allow the wish list to be saved in a cookie for returning customers. The end result was a greater conversion rate. Our only requirement for signing up was at checkout or if they wanted to use other tools or by signing up for specials, etc. So, is there a way we can use a reference to retrieve the wish list, some other id other than a signed in party ID which is stored in cookie and then, when the visitor opens the site that particular cookie is read and the shopping list can be retrieved from the database?

Has anyone else run into this problem? Could anyone please offer some advice to us for the best way to handle this? Any comments or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Scott.

[David E Jones]

There is already some support for this. Check out the Visitor entity  
and the visitorId on the ShoppingList. Some coding may need to be  
done to make it work the way you want in the UI and such.

-David


On Oct 16, 2007, at 8:23 AM, Scott. wrote:

>
> Hi All,
>
> We sell directly to the consumer (B2C) and have a question regarding
> shopping lists. At the moment the wish list/shopping list is stored  
> based on
> a user creating and signing into an account but is there a way to  
> use it
> anonymously? In our current site we found that when we allowed  
> consumers to
> add to their wish list/shopping list anonymously (without sign-up),  
> our
> conversion rate ended up increasing. When faced with a sign-up page  
> to add
> to a wish list, it was simply abandoned by the consumer in the vast  
> majority
> of cases.
>
> We also found that we had to allow the wish list to be saved in a  
> cookie for
> returning customers. The end result was a greater conversion rate.  
> Our only
> requirement for signing up was at checkout or if they wanted to use  
> other
> tools or by signing up for specials, etc. So, is there a way we can  
> use a
> reference to retrieve the wish list, some other id other than a  
> signed in
> party ID which is stored in cookie and then, when the visitor opens  
> the site
> that particular cookie is read and the shopping list can be  
> retrieved from
> the database?
>
> Has anyone else run into this problem? Could anyone please offer  
> some advice
> to us for the best way to handle this? Any comments or suggestions  
> would be
> greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Scott.
>
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>

[Willem-9]

Hans,

Did the check out to 579571 work for you?

Willem


 -----Original Message-----
From: Adrian Crum [mailto:[hidden email]]
Sent: maandag 15 oktober 2007 16:53
To: [hidden email]
Subject: Re: locale issue


Hans,

Please check out rev 579571 or later and see if this is still a problem. If
it is, then please create a Jira issue for it and I will take a look at it.

 -Adrian

Hans Bakker wrote:

> Hi BJ,
>
> i do think this is an OFBiz issue because here i experience the same.
> Mostly using content management functions the locale get changed
> without notice. I spend already some time on it, however i could yet
> find the cause.... Anybody else has this experience? (and perhaps has
> a
> solution?)
>
> Regards,
> Hans
>
> On Sun, 2007-10-14 at 03:22 -0700, BJ Freeman wrote:
>
>>this is best dealt with in the opentaps forum.
>>Not sure how their release numbers relate to the svn numbers in ofbiz
>>currently ofbiz is 584440 in the trunk and 582088 in version 4.0.
>>https://sourceforge.net/forum/?group_id=145855 
>>
>>Willem Janssen sent the following on 10/14/2007 2:09 AM:
>>
>>>Hello all,
>>>
>>>We're working for a while now with ofbiz and opentaps and run into an
>>>issue which we can't seem to resolve ourselves.
>>>We're having a webapp in the hot-deploy in opentaps (revision 4960)
>>>and seemingly quite randomly the system 'looses' the locale. The
>>>webapp is a website, not behind a login. When looking in the log, the
>>>parameters.locale is not there and the system uses the initialLocale
>>>which is en_GB.
>>>
>>>These are the settings in general.properties:
>>>
>>>1. -- the default currency to use for prices, etc
>>>
>>>currency.uom.id.default=EUR
>>>1. -- the default decimal format for currency
>>>
>>>currency.decimal.format=##0,00
>>>1. -- locales made available separated by comma's
>>>
>>>locales.available=en,fr,nl,de
>>>1. -- the default country for drop downs
>>>
>>>country.geo.id.default=NLD
>>>During the request the only service used is getElectronicText and
>>>nowhere in the content and dataresource records do we have the locale en_GB.
>>>Also, we only encounter this on the server we use; on the localhost
>>>the problem is not there (same opentap revision:4960)
>>>
>>>Your help is much appreciated.
>>>
>>>Willem
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>

[Jacques Le Roux]

Quick answer,

They are yet no parties associated with a sale in POS. In the POS the user is _NA_ (sort of anonymous) and the POS stores and loads
sales using shopping lists.

Jacques

----- Message d'origine -----
De : "Scott." <[hidden email]>
À : <[hidden email]>
Envoyé : mardi 16 octobre 2007 16:23
Objet : Anonymous Shopping Lists?

>
> Hi All,
>
> We sell directly to the consumer (B2C) and have a question regarding
> shopping lists. At the moment the wish list/shopping list is stored based on
> a user creating and signing into an account but is there a way to use it
> anonymously? In our current site we found that when we allowed consumers to
> add to their wish list/shopping list anonymously (without sign-up), our
> conversion rate ended up increasing. When faced with a sign-up page to add
> to a wish list, it was simply abandoned by the consumer in the vast majority
> of cases.
>
> We also found that we had to allow the wish list to be saved in a cookie for
> returning customers. The end result was a greater conversion rate. Our only
> requirement for signing up was at checkout or if they wanted to use other
> tools or by signing up for specials, etc. So, is there a way we can use a
> reference to retrieve the wish list, some other id other than a signed in
> party ID which is stored in cookie and then, when the visitor opens the site
> that particular cookie is read and the shopping list can be retrieved from
> the database?
>
> Has anyone else run into this problem? Could anyone please offer some advice
> to us for the best way to handle this? Any comments or suggestions would be
> greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Scott.
>
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>