Pre-populating information on the billing page

[George]

I am looking for Prepopulating some information in the Billing page like 'Your Contact Email, First Name, Last Name' as I collect them in my remote site and would like not to reenter from the customer.

I have a html snippet in my site which redirects directly to the billing page. My html snippet looks like this

<form action="http://<MyShopifyName>.myshopify.com/cart/add" method="post">

  <input type="hidden" name="id" value="<ID>" />

  <input type="hidden" name="return_to" value="/checkout" />

  <input type="submit" value="BUY NOW" />

</form>

I really appreciate any help on this.

Thanks

George 

[David Underwood]

Hi George,

I'm 99% sure that this isn't possible. Our checkout has some fairly heavy security surrounding it and should effectively be considered a black box from a merchant/app perspective.

-David Underwood

 Developer Advocate, Shopify

 1-888-746-7439 x771

[Edward Ocampo-Gooding]

A better way to handle this would be to create customer accounts for them with that information already and then log them in, but unfortunately the API doesn’t have support for this behaviour yet. We are however working on it.

Edward Ocampo-Gooding
Developer Advocate, Shopify

[Joel Van Horn]

Hi,

I've just integrated the Shopify API in a third-party website and want users that already have accounts on our website to be able to have a seamless checkout experience. Right now I've setup guest checkout, but it still requires the user's email. Is there any other way to make this more customizable? 

Thanks!

On Tuesday, March 6, 2012 11:47:43 AM UTC-5, Edward Ocampo-Gooding wrote:

A better way to handle this would be to create customer accounts for them with that information already and then log them in, but unfortunately the API doesn’t have support for this behaviour yet. We are however working on it.

Edward Ocampo-Gooding
Developer Advocate, Shopify

[wik]

Yes, there is a tools like mechanize[1] with the help of which you could prepopulate step #1 of checkout and then redirect users right to the step #2

But be aware of potential maintenance issues, because mechanize will bring you out of Shopify API responsibility.

1: http://mechanize.rubyforge.org/Mechanize.html

[Joel Van Horn]

I figured this out. You can pre-populate the checkout form. It's actually pretty easy once you know how things work. I just wrote a blog post about it. Let me know if this is helpful. Thanks!

http://joelvanhorn.com/2012/03/24/pre-filling-shopify-checkout-forms/

[Josh Boddiford]

Awesome post Joel!  

Thanks so much for all the great details... this kind of undocumented feature list really helps someone like me who's new to the Shopify world.

Josh

[Dave]

Great little write-up there Josh. Easy to follow recipe and addresses
a need a lot of people have.

Thanks

On Mar 24, 5:45 pm, Josh Boddiford <j...@boddiford.com> wrote:
> Awesome post Joel!
>
> Thanks so much for all the great details... this kind of undocumented
> feature list really helps someone like me who's new to the Shopify world.
>
> Josh
>