In contrary to all the efforts Magento team put into One Page Checkout functionality there are lot of people that find it annoying and non-user friendly. I would dare to say I am one of them. Besides myself, lot of our clients have expressed their desire for simpler checkout page.
Lets face it, if you are running a web shop, then usability must be one of your prime concerns. How bad would you feel if you knew you had a customer that added bunch of stuff to cart just to say “To hell with it” when he reaches the annoying and non user friendly checkout process.
As I mentioned previously, several of our clients have already asked us to develop a simpler version of One Page checkout for them, however they soon gave up when presented with development cost. Magento is no picnic, coding something like this requires time and knowledge.
Here is one extension that promises to simplify the checkout process, its called OneStepCheckout.
If you come from WordPress, Joomla, Drupal or similar PHP platforms, you are most likely use to not paying your plugins, modules etc. As I noted previously, professional Magento development is not an easy task, so paying for an extension that can boost your user experience, thus possibly increasing sales, should not be a problem for any serious site owner.
Installation of OneStepCheckout extension is a breeze, plus if you stuck, they provide installation services. Attached are few screenshots with some comments for you to see the final result. Numerous configurations options make it even more compelling.
Just by point and click you (your client) can decide to turn off certain input fields like City, Telephone, Company etc.
OneStepCheckout extension comes in two flavors, Standard and Enterprise. Screenshots below show Enterprise version.
What else to say, I was thrilled with this one, so much that I decided to reference it in my sidebar.
Hope this short review was useful to some.
Cheers.
Nice extension.
Thanks for the presentation
Magento OPC sucks. This is how it should be done. It's a pity that there are no free alternatives.
Hi Branko,
Nice extension. We have a issue with the shipping calculation in the magento checkout page. Hope you will help us get through it. Currently we are using a shipping calculator from another website and are able to display it's value in magento checkout page, but we are not able to add that value with the total product value. Can you please specify as to where the code need to be changed.
Does this OneStepCheckout mod work for every product type?
Thanks.
Yes! (from http://www.onestepcheckout.com)
In fact, it's a nice PR article, but one step checkout it's not better checkout
It's always confusing to disturb the visitors with to many information and fields, it's a clean rule. The step-by-step model it's better way to take the money of the new visitors, not familiar with your store interface and for the registered ones it's clear.
I got this extension for one my clients – really has improved sales.
quick note about onestepcheckout, we have run into a lot of bugs with discount codes, in versions 2.1 and the new 2.2. Discount codes are rarely saved after the users clicks Place Order. If you decide to purchase this extension, be sure to extensively test discount codes, i have never been able to get them to work properly with this extension.
We have had some problems with discount codes but all issues are resolved now, and we have just sent you an update that will fix this last issue you were having. I am sorry for the inconvenience this has caused you, we have had it on the top of our priority list and now it is finally resolved.
We have had some problems with discount codes but all issues are resolved now, and we have just sent you an update that will fix this last issue you were having. I am sorry for the inconvenience this has caused you, we have had it on the top of our priority list and now it is finally resolved.