Events checkout improvements

These modifications have been made to the Freeway checkout process for events as a result of working on the Joomla Day in Byron Bay. Please see http://www. joomlabyronbay.com. They remove four pages from the checkout process. Here is a summary of the pages which were removed:

1. Category page, optionally hidden
2. Available Sessions page – optionally hidden
3. Shopping Cart page – optionally hidden
4. After login/user creation – return to shopping cart page – Removed

As a result, the checkout process has been reduced to 6 pages. With the upcoming One Page Checkout, it will be reduced by another three pages.

Page 1 – Event category page

Category page to be hidden for categories with only one event.  

Page 2 - Event page

Option added to hide “Instructor”. “Start Date” changed to “Date” with no dropdown

Page 3 - Available Sessions page

This page is now hidden by default with an option to display it.

Page 4 - Shopping Cart Page

This page can be hidden and the option to hide it has been extended to Services/Evens/ Subscriptions.

Page 5 & 6 - User Login/Creation page

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No changes made in the user creation page but this site took advantage of the ability to modify the fields displayed in the user creation process.

Fields Hidden

• Date of Birth
• Company
• Second Phone number
• Second Email address
• Referral Question in the Front End
• Newsletter
• Reservation/waitlist Newsletter
• Subscription Newsletter

Page 7 - Return to shopping cart page

This page has been removed. This was a mistake with the Freeway/Joomla extension rather than the standard Freeway checkout. It has been fixed nevertheless.

Page 8 - Checkout Payment choice

 This page is maintain as is. A condensed One Page Checkout process is in planning. See here for details. A change was made to the Gift Voucher process so purchases of equal value as the Gift Voucher do not proceed to the payment gateway because the cost is zero.

Page 9 - Payment Confirmation Page

 This page is maintained as is.

Page 10- Checkout Success Page

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The success page is shown directly afterwards or in the case of PayPal, it is directed to Paypal for the purchase and then back to the success page.