I used Cart2Cart to migrate a Volusion store to Shopify.
All customer data and orders came through successfully, but customer accounts were not created. If they try to login or do a password reset they get the "No account found with that email."
I want to create their accounts for them without sending them activation emails. Don't really care about the password as it'll be super complex and they will need to reset it when trying to login, but at least they won't be getting the no account message.
Any ideas? I found https://docs.uselocksmith.com/article/231-approving-customer-registrations which discusses creating a password for the accounts. Waiting to hear back from them.
This company offers a service where your Shopify store looks for existing customers from your old store and has them "reset" a password when they come back to the store. https://webinopoly.com/blogs/news/migrating-magento-username-password-to-shopify Thus, no need to mass email them and they feel more secure about doing the password reset because they came back to your store on their terms.
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Background:
I am making an app which will be a public app and will put it on Shopify App Store.
I have completed with the OAuth process and I get access_token and scope in return which is good. I can now use this token and send API requests with X-Shopify-Access-Token in the header.
But, for my database design, I need the user details as well, like user ID or email ID for example. However, I read the docs(scroll up a bit) and it suggested in the caution section that email address is not reliable to identify the user(merchant). I also gave a read on access modes which is online and offline, and in my case, I would need an offline access token.
Question:
How would I get a User ID from Shopify during app install so that I could uniquely identify each merchant?
One of the reasons I would want to have this is because a single merchant could have(or see) multiple stores linked with my app and I wish to show them details for each store under a single user account.
When a merchant installs your App, during the oAuth flow, you are presented with the shop name. That is unique, and will always be present for incoming calls to your App from Shopify.
You do not mess around with email, or user ID's. You simply persist the access token you got in your data store, with the shop name.
If you wanted to group by a merchant name, you know each Shop object provides the shop owner details. So you can always dig those out and store them along with the shop name, allowing you to show one merchant, many stores.
I've used my live PayPal account to login to developer.paypal.com where I created 2 new accounts buyer# (personal) and seller# (business). I've implemented a PayPal plugin for a shop (CubeCart + PayPal Standard Payment Gateway plugin https://www.cubecart.com/extensions/payment-gateways/paypal-standard). When I complete an order (sandbox testing) I sign using buyer# email and password and complete the order. I can then click to view account and it shows "payment to", "unclaimed" and the amount I've paid. When I logout of this account and login as my buyer#, I see no transactions. If I log back into developer.paypal.com and go to transactions under "Sandbox" section and select any of the email addresses I see the same statement for all of them "You don't have any transactions".
If I login to sandbox.paypal.com using james-facilitator# account (business) there are no transactions here either.
If I login to sanbox.paypal.com using james-buyer# account (personal) there is only the one initial transaction here for the initial 9,999 funds
I've obviously missed something but I can't think what, I'm not sure how a sandbox account knows who it's seller should be but I've checked both sandbox seller accounts. I find it strange that the buyer account I used has registered the transaction but it seems like it's orphaned as there isn't any other record of it any where else including the developer.paypal.com sandbox transaction. I've tried this several times to see if I could get it working and I've also allowed for 24 hours just in case there was a delay somewhere.
I just want to be able to test transactions before going live.
Any help/advice?
Much appreciated :)
Cheers
James
Solved - silly really now I know but it was simply the email address I used to test the API. I used my main live account and I should have used the fake email address in my API call. Since my live controls the test accounts I assumed that this should have been used.
I'm using Paypal rest api to make payment
the workflow is:
Create payment
Redirect to approval Url
User approved (return back to my site)
Execute payment
But there's one thing that I don't want users re-filling shipping address again because it was filled in my website.
So I change the workflow to:
Create web profile (set no shipping field)
Get web profile ID
Create payment with experienceProfileId given
Redirect to approval Url
User approved (return back to my site)
Execute payment
But I found this will create a lots WebProfile every time user request payment.
I think it is crazy to do:
create and delete it later again and again
attempt listing WebProfiles and check which is the one I want to use every time while creating payment
store experienceProfileId as a constant
What is the best practice for handling WebProfile or does there any solution just hiding shipping address while user approving payments?
Maybe this is not the answer regarding this "WebProfile". As a fact, I dont know what exactly "WebProfile" does or is.
I worked on the same Workflow these days. As you wrote I needed to predefine some address. For me it was obvious, that I have to do the database-stuff on my Website. Then I exactly define the order, shipping_address, etc. and send the users to Paypal.
If you predefine the new ShippingAddress() to your ´new ItemList()´ by
$itemlist->setShippingAddress($shippingaddress) the user cannot change it within the Process.
http://i.imgur.com/nAg8jxU.png
Maybe this helps you a little.
I'm planning to create a web application that allows a user to track donation amounts to their PayPal account that are posting in real time towards a goal.
I need to know...
A. If it's possible
B. If the path I'm using is the best path
c. What is the best path is b isn't.
The flow would work like this.
1) User visits site and enters their PayPal Email address / password / goal donation amount. I'd then be able to make api calls on behalf of this user.
2) I'd use the API call and make a webhook on this users account for when donations come in (The webhooks only say it can fire when sales come in, but maybe donations count as a sale?)
3) I'd have a function on my website ready to accept the post data and update the tracker.
So if the tracker starts out saying 0/300 (user entered 300 for goal amount at the start), then a 15 dollar donation comes in it will update to 15/300, and if another donation for 5 dollars comes in it will say 20/300 etc...
Thanks for any suggestions / help!
Instead of using the user's PayPal email address and password, PayPal has something called a client id and client secret. These work like passwords to make API calls and allot safer than asking for the real email address and password from your user. If you revise your #1, then it is certainly possible to make API calls and receive webhooks just like you described.
Link to PayPal Authentication & Headers: https://developer.paypal.com/docs/api/#authentication--headers
Link to PayPal Notifications for managing webhooks: https://developer.paypal.com/docs/api/#notifications
Annoyingly, Shopify does not allow registration until completing checkout. I want people to be able to register before buying so that I can use their logged-in state to trigger some template changes, discounts, etc.
I've worked out how to add customer accounts using the API, but this effectively only sets the account up for activation. I would have to manually approve each registration from the Shopify admin panel. Not cool!
Invitation emails contain a URL which follows this pattern:
http://shopname.myshopify.com/account/activate/14e18ab6887f4f61d8fb038bb956be99
Does anybody know if there's a way to get that activation token with the API so I can send out activation emails of my own, straight after adding the user?
This is available in the admin now.
Unfortunately there's no way to create customer accounts and send the activation emails automatically. This is an issue we're aware of and are looking to fix in a future release.
You can send an email invite now from the Shopify admin, but this is still manual. You have to go into each customer and click a link to send the invite.
There is an app available now called 'Automatic Account Invites' in Shopify that will automatically send the invites when a customer is created in Shopify.
Automatic Account Invites for Shopify