Dirty Butter Posted April 14, 2016 Share Posted April 14, 2016 This seems to be getting worse for us, not better. You'd think by now people would be used to buying online and would double check the email address they type in for purchases and to contact us. But the number of bounces has gone up considerably this year - usually something simple like ".con" instead of ".com" that I can fix - but not always. What would need to be coded to have them type email addresses twice and force a match before proceeding? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ayz1 Posted April 14, 2016 Share Posted April 14, 2016 Take a look at http://foundation.zurb.com/sites/docs/abide.html I copied all the code into a blank document and it worked on the password box (just entered an email instead). Now need to try it in the contact form somehow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirty Butter Posted April 14, 2016 Author Share Posted April 14, 2016 Thanks, ayz1, I'll play with that and see how it goes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirty Butter Posted April 14, 2016 Author Share Posted April 14, 2016 LOL Well I looked at it, but it is WAY over my abilities. Good luck to you, ayz1 ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Brookbanks Posted April 14, 2016 Share Posted April 14, 2016 The foundation skin doesn't use Abide but  jQuery Validate instead. It should validate email addresses to a certain extent already. It would be possible to check the MX records for the domain automatically but that risks potential fails for genuine email addresses. I don't think there is a good reliable way to do this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirty Butter Posted April 14, 2016 Author Share Posted April 14, 2016 I wasn't thinking of some sort of verification of the email address, but rather a requirement that the customer has to type it in twice and the two have to match. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bsmither Posted April 14, 2016 Share Posted April 14, 2016 My take on this is that logins should be freeform. Virtually everything I log into (other than CubeCart and my actual email accounts -- and which means I am not very far ranging in my web surfing habits) has a uniquely available (to that location) username and any kind of password. To that end, I support not using email addresses as the primarily functional way to log in. Sure, a username could look like an email address, but it wouldn't actually be the email address. Just a unique username. Plus, CC_order_summary holds the email address of the customer at the time the order was placed. This may be of some use for historical purposes only - absolutely no practical use. Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirty Butter Posted April 15, 2016 Author Share Posted April 15, 2016 It's not the login I'm concerned about, but the automatic emails or my replies that go to customers who provided an email address (with a typo in it) in their order or email to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bsmither Posted April 15, 2016 Share Posted April 15, 2016 Ok, not the login, for you, but I have seen numerous situations where customers entered a mis-typed email address as their login. Then, the Forgot Password function doesn't work. It's just a tangential issue relative to your OP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cb2004 Posted April 22, 2016 Share Posted April 22, 2016 This would be relatively easy to fix client side as you could add another field. You could then change the jQuery Validate code to make sure that the 2 fields match and then the customer would be able to proceed. You could simply hide this extra field with CSS, and display it with jQuery. This would not solve the server side validation however. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirty Butter Posted April 22, 2016 Author Share Posted April 22, 2016 31 minutes ago, cb2004 said: This would be relatively easy to fix client side as you could add another field. You could then change the jQuery Validate code to make sure that the 2 fields match and then the customer would be able to proceed. This is what I had in mind, but I don't know how to do it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cb2004 Posted April 22, 2016 Share Posted April 22, 2016 24 minutes ago, Dirty Butter said: This is what I had in mind, but I don't know how to do it. What form do you want it on? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirty Butter Posted April 22, 2016 Author Share Posted April 22, 2016 For sure on Checkout, but also on the Register page and Contact Us pages - in other words, anywhere the customer provides an email address. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harrisorganic Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 DB, would having this type of login fix this issue for us? The data is already in Paypal and I am sure the email address and other data is correct. Some people use Facebook to login with also. Is that a possibility Al.? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Brookbanks Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 Yes PayPal have an API for that. Quite often it won't return a phone number though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirty Butter Posted April 25, 2016 Author Share Posted April 25, 2016 The Facebook/PayPal login would work, but I do NOT agree that the other information would necessarily be correct. We have had situations where the PayPal mailing address was out of date. At least the login email address would be accurate. Do these plugins save all this login/mailing address information in the CC database? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harrisorganic Posted April 26, 2016 Share Posted April 26, 2016 I have no idea, hoping some one else would shed light on this. ANYTHING that makes customer registration easier MUST be good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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