Magento – How to keep billing info saved on checkout step if page refreshed

magento-1.7onepage-checkout

I wanted to find out if anyone knows of a way to keep billing info saved in Magento Onepage Checkout billing step if the page is refreshed. The reason is probably obvious but in the scenario that a customer choose to edit their cart having reached the end it would be painful to force them to re-enter their billing info all over again…

I have enabled persistent shopping cart but it isn't saving the data after page refresh so I would be grateful if anybody knew of another way that they could share with us please.

Best Answer

You won't be able to do it natively.

But you could be clever and use web sockets (if you need 2 way comms) to continuously save the form data (just like this website does!) - or just use a vanilla Ajax call onkeyup - then save it in the PHP session, to be echo'ed out later.

Or a more straightfoward pluggable approach would be to use a library like jQuery Save as you Type

In either situation, it would save the form contents and allow them to visit another page and come back. The only thing you might have to do is retain the accordion position - but I'm not sure many customers would mind hitting "next" a couple of times if their data was already saved.

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Onepage Checkout – Displaying Billing/Shipping Address Outside Progress Sidebar in Magento 1.9

I'm not an expert of Prototype.js, but it seems like the progress sidebar is modified by the reloadStep function of the skin/frontend/base/default/js/opcheckout.js script.

reloadStep: function(prevStep) {
    var updater = new Ajax.Updater(prevStep + '-progress-opcheckout', this.progressUrl, {
        method:'get',
        onFailure:this.ajaxFailure.bind(this),
        onComplete: function(){
            this.checkout.resetPreviousSteps();
        },
        parameters:prevStep ? { prevStep:prevStep } : null
    });
},

Where prevStep + '-progress-opcheckout' (prevStep could be billing, payment etc.) determines which block has to be edited.

One solution, but clearly not the best way, would be to add the code below just after the step-title div.

<div id="<?php echo $_stepId ?>-progress-opcheckout"></div>

As an id has to be unique, you would have to disable completely the progress sidebar, so not only hiding it.

Magento 1.9 – Can’t Pass Billing Step in Checkout Page

i think this error does have its origin in some eav attribute validation in the saveBillingAction like here: https://github.com/bragento/magento-core/blob/1264aee821b451b3c88e55659cd1ee79d3b324af/app/code/core/Mage/Checkout/Model/Type/Onepage.php#L284

I'm not 100% sure if this error comes from this, but you could check the eav_attribute table.

The customer should have the eav_entity_type id 1 (at least for me) and the custoemr address should have 2. (you can also look them up in the eav_entity_type table).

In the eav attribute table, theres a column 'is_required'. Although, its weird, that the attribute is empty in the message, you might find an attribute here, that is required (and then validated) in the table but not filled in in your checkout process.

It might also be a cache issue. If I'm recognizing corretly, there is a nasty cache for the eav attributes that could actually be responsible for such behaviour (given you changed or maybe deleted a customer or address attribute recently)

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