Not forcing users to be logged in when using Payment Request API

So in your use case you don’t want anyone to be able to checkout anywhere if they’re not first logged in. Is that right?

Just updated to the 4.0 version of the plugin. Same issue, but now someone gets an error saying the password field is empty. It would be great if this could just be conditional to only use the Payments/Apple Pay API if the person is currently logged in.

Sorry…added that comment before seeing your comment. If the person isn’t logged in, on the checkout form, it won’t let them checkout unless they either create an account or log in. If you just made it so the Payments API wasn’t used unless they are currently logged in, that should fix the issue.

Can you please show what your account settings are like? Example here https://cld.wthms.co/x4gYAT

Here’s the checkout settings:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OQw9AuX8qSRWUOVV94XMxWGo-SaYYP7T/view?usp=sharing

Here’s the accounts settings:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/164Xj6MQmrrjUsoS7NC1Cw5NBUoSnVg9W/view?usp=sharing

Thanks for that. Note that if you enable “Auto generate password”, it will pretty much do what you wanted because it will essentially create an account automatically for them. Does this not work for you?

I didn’t realize that was what that does…I guess I’ve got two concerns:

• I’m worried about it being confusing for people if their account is created automatically (although I see some benefits for that as well).
• They access the things they have purchased through “Groups” plugin with the “Groups WooCommerce” plugin handling adding them to a group when the purchase is complete. This brings on more questions:

• Would everything just work (new account created, assigned to the correct group(s)), or would I need to jump through some hoops to make sure everything lined up?
• Will the purchase be attributed to the correct account if they have one, but aren’t logged in?

I’m not expecting you to know how the Groups thing works out, but it’s something I want to test out to get a better answer to my questions. There’s a big sale going on tomorrow, so I’m just going to leave the Payments API turned off for now. I’ll probably dig into this more sometime next week.

Thanks!

Yeah I am not familiar with Groups however why not just test it yourself with test/sandbox mode? After your sale tomorrow of course. And then let me know your findings and if anything that make sense for us to implement we will consider it.

I’m planning on testing out the various options above…it probably won’t be until next week (when things are a little quieter), but I’ll report back to you anything useful that I discover.

Hi @jloosl,

You could also raise a ticket at?https://woocommerce.com/my-account/create-a-ticket/?along with the administrator credentials and we can check it when you are ready.

Have a nice day.