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Step-by-step guide

Guest Checkout can be enabled for your B2C site quickly and easily via the CMS. Simply follow the steps below.  

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Congratulations, Guest Checkout is now enabled! 
 

Customisation

Once Guest Checkout has been turned on, you may wish to customise the look and feel. The Guest Checkout Template becomes available in the Content menu once the function is enabled.

To edit the template: 

1. Login to the CMS.
2. Navigate to Content --> Standard Pages.
3. Select the 'Guest Checkout Template'. 
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4. The default widgets will be listed in each of the zones.
5. Drag and drop widgets to different zones to reposition them in the layout. 
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6. Click 'Edit' on any of the widgets to configure options as required. 

Email Customisation

When a user checks out as a guest, they are offered the option of creating an account at the same time. The system searches for the their email address and if not found, creates a login based on the data supplied. 

If the guest user's email address IS found, the user is sent an email advising that they already have an account.

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1. Login to the CMS.
2. Navigate to to Content –>  –> Emails. 
3. Select the the 'User Exists Email' template template.
4. Locate the the 'User Registration' widget  widget and click 'Edit'.
5. Ensure the widget option to to 'Show User Exists Message' is  is ticked. If not, tick it and click click 'Save'.
6. Click the the 'Test Email' button  button to send yourself a copy. 
    
7. Review the content of the email and determine whether changes are required.
8. The default widgets will be listed in each of the zones on the template. 
9. Drag and drop widgets to reorder them in the layout. 
10. Click Click 'Edit' on  on any of the widgets to configure options as required. 
11. Click the the 'Test Email' button  button to send another copy for review.
     
     

Template Customisation

Once Guest Checkout has been turned on, you may wish to customise the look and feel. The Guest Checkout Template becomes available in the Content menu once the function is enabled.

To edit the template: 

1. Login to the CMS.
2. Navigate to Content --> Standard Pages.
3. Select the 'Guest Checkout Template'. 
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4. The default widgets will be listed in each of the zones.
5. Drag and drop widgets to reposition them in the layout if required. 
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6. To customise the text on the Guest Checkout button, add the 'Guest Checkout Expand Button' widget to the Zone Guest Checkout.
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7. Click 'Edit' on the widget to update the text, then click 'Save'. 
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The Guest Checkout template also contains 2 zones - Options Left and Options Right - which can be used to customise the layout in conjunction with the 'Guest Checkout Expand Button'.  

In the example below, a link to the Registration page has been placed in the Left zone. Then the Guest Checkout button has been placed in the Right zone. 

The actual Guest Checkout fields (Delivery Address, Freight Options, Payment) remain in the Zone Guest Checkout, and are only revealed when the button is clicked. 

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To replicate this layout: 

1. Login to the CMS. 
2. Navigate to Content --> Standard Pages.
3. Select the Guest Checkout template. 
4. In the Zone Options Left, add a widget for your content - for example, an HTML Snippet.
5. Click 'Edit' on the widget to configure. In this example we used html to insert text and a button link. 
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6. Style the button by inserting the required class into the html. Refer to your site's style guide. 
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7. Click 'Save'.
8. In the Zone Options Right, add the 'Guest Checkout Expand Button' widget. 
9. Click 'Edit' on the widget to customise the button text. 
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10. Click 'Save'.
11. Add another 'HTML Snippet' widget to the Zone Options Right if you wish to display text or other content with the Guest Checkout Button. 
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