Magento – Check if registration during checkout

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can anyone tell me how I can find out if the registration of a new customer is done during the checkout or not. I need to know this information in the accountcontroller.

Edit:
My aim is to get rid of the message "If you are a registered VAT customer, please…" in success.phtml, but only if the customer was registered during the checkout.
Because I've disabled "account confirmation" and forwarding to "account overview" the customer can complete the purchase and after that this message appears – but doesn't make sense any more.

So in short I've got two use cases:

1.) normal registration -> message added to queue (in AccountController->_welcomeCustomer) -> message displayed after finishing registration -> OK
2.) checkout -> registration -> message added to queue (in AccountController->_welcomeCustomer) -> next steps in checkout-> purchase -> message displayed after purchase -> NOT OK

Thanks.

Best Answer

You can try this logic.
Get the first order of the customer.
Get the quote object of the order.
Check the checkout method of the quote.

Something like this:

$customerId = Mage::getSingleton('customer/session')->getCustomer()->getId()
$orders = Mage::getModel('sales/order')->getCollection()
    ->addFieldToFilter('customer_id', $customerId)
    ->setOrder('entity_id', 'ASC')
    ->setCurPage(1)
    ->setPageSize(1); //limit to 1;
$firstOrder = $orders->getFirstItem(); 

if (!$firstOrder->getId()) {
   //it means the customer did not place any orders so he did not register at checkout
}
else {
    $quoteId = $firstOrder->getQuoteId();
    $quote = Mage::getModel('sales/quote')->load($quoteId);
    $checkoutMethod = $quote->getCheckoutMethod();
    if ($checkoutMethod == 'register') {
        //customer registered at checkout
    }
    else {
       //customer did not register at checkout
    }
}

I didn't test the code but the idea seams ok to me.

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Magento – Paypal Express Order Review Page

Anton is right: PayPal Express is designed to work this way (redirect to Paypal, then redirect to your website again). One reason is for example, that your business terms etc. must be shown to the customer before he finally agrees to buy.

There is - of course - another possibility: You could use Website Payments Standard. The customer will be redirected to PayPal after he confirmed your business terms and pays there. Bad about this: I was told by PayPal staff members, that Website Payments Standard is an "old standard" and "redirects most of the time"; we see several cases where the payment is confirmed by the customer, but the IPN won't show im Magento backend.

Ask further if u need more detail :)

Check for Customer Email Address Exists in Checkout – Magento

Looking at Using Javascript to validate response in the text box pointed me in the right direction.

I still have to clean up the code and integrate it correctly in firecheckout, but the following code basically does exactly what I want:

/** 
 * Check if customer email address already exists 
 */ 

public function checkEmailexistsAction()
{       

    if ($this->_expireAjax()) {
        echo 'Ajax Expired'; 
        return;
    }
    if (!$this->getRequest()->isPost()) {
        echo '!isPost'; 
        return;
    }

    $websiteId = Mage::app()->getWebsite()->getId();
    $data = $this->getRequest()->getPost('billing', array());
    $email = $data['email'];

    $customer = Mage::getModel('customer/customer');

    if ($websiteId) {
        $customer->setWebsiteId($websiteId);
        }

    $customer->loadByEmail($email);

    if ($customer->getId()) {
        // This is the part of the code that runs when a customer exists ... 
        echo 'Yup - this one exists!, email address = ' . $email . ' and ID = ' . $customer->getId(); 
        }
    else {
        // This is the part of the code that runs when a customer does not yet exist ...
        echo 'Nope.. This one is not there...'; 
    }
}

Posting 'billing[email]=someemailaddress@somehost.org' to /firecheckout/index/checkEmailexists now reliably returns a yes or no.

Best Answer

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Magento – Paypal Express Order Review Page

Check for Customer Email Address Exists in Checkout – Magento

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