OnePageCheckout?

Hello Ludwig,

Hi Ludwig,
     They said it would be one, but it's two, so I want to go back to five/six? Huh! Sorry, I don't see the logic of that at all.  As for being Frakenstein'd, I have to disagree.
 
The NUMBER ONE request we had for that release was for a one page checkout. We did consider supporting the old & new checkouts, but the overheads of doing so would be considerable.  For some payment methods a true one page checkout has been achieved and for payment gateways it's close, but the complexity and time/cost/effort of integrating all the possible payment gateways into the new checkout meant that we made the decision for most payment gateways to use a separate page. For some I believe it is effectively dictated anyway by the way the gateways work and for others it was our decision. It was a matter of priorities in the end,the cost/benefit/risk/time of going further did not stack up. Of course we have had mixed reactions to the OPC, but from the feedback we got the vast majority viewed it as a worthwhile improvement. Further integrating a single payment gateway would be feasible, but when you expand that to the number we support the complexity quickly heads skywards. That's not to say we will never re-visit this, but I believe our customers will on the whole have other functionality they would rather see first.  
 

As an experienced developer and merchant account agent since 1998, I completely understand what EI is up against here vis a vis Hamish's comments above (though I wish EI would kill the table rows that include the "last step" graphic remnant from 3.51).

We just tailor that graphic to match the site design since it appears on the gateway page as well as ordercomplete.

Here's what I will do as a temporarily improvement. I am removing the old checkout steps graphic and replacing it with a <h1>Payment</h1> page title, so it matches the Checkout page title on the onepagecheckout page.

Then I will add the little Order Total box in the top right corner to match the onepagecheckout, and lastly I want to put the "Order Preview" section at the bottom of the payment page... if I do these three things, I guarantee it will look 10 times better, because the payment page will match the rest of the checkout and it won't seem so disjointed and poorly designed.

I have already removed the old graphic and replaced it with a "Payment" page title. I tried adding the little total box but it's not working... would have been too good to be true if I could have just pasted this onto the payment page:

<tr>
            <td>
                <% '// ORDER TOTAL - START %>
                    <div id="pcOPCtotal">
                        <div id="pcOPCtotalAmount"><%=scCurSign & money(opcOrderTotal)%></div>
                        <div id="pcOPCtotalLinks"><a href="#orderPreview"><%=dictLanguage.Item(Session("language")&"_opc_1")%></a></div>
                    </div>
                <% '// ORDER TOTAL - END %>
                <h1>Payment</h1>
            </td>
        </tr>

Can anyone help get this little box to work on the payment page? You should try this new layout and see how good it looks.


Edited by Ludwig - 13-March-2012 at 4:20pm