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Block UEmail when cart is empty ?

Thread began 8/08/2012 10:31 pm by Fritz Stickers | Last modified 8/10/2012 8:22 am by Jason Byrnes | 2069 views | 10 replies |

8/08/2012 10:31 pm | #1 Fritz Stickers

Block UEmail when cart is empty ?

Is it possible to block UEmail when the cart is empty ?
Some customers like to play around with the back-button and sent their order (empty) twice or even three times. Though when submitted the checkout-page, the cart is empty and the session is abandoned. But an email is sent.

8/09/2012 7:22 am | #2 Jason ByrnesWebAssist

On the page with UE on it, there should be a Redirect If Empty Behavior, Move that behaviors code so it is before the UE code block, this will prevent the email from sending if the cart is empty.

8/09/2012 9:36 am | #3 Fritz Stickers

Do you mean this piece of code ?

<%
' WA eCart Redirect
if (stickersBE_redirStr <> "")     then
  Response.Redirect(stickersBE_redirStr)
end if
%>

This is just before the "Session.Abandon" and <!DOCTYPE html .....

8/09/2012 10:33 am | #4 Jason ByrnesWebAssist

yes, copy that code and place it before the UE code block.

8/09/2012 11:01 am | #5 Fritz Stickers

Sorry, but that doesn't make a difference.

8/09/2012 11:04 am | #6 Jason ByrnesWebAssist

send a copy of the page please

8/09/2012 11:08 am | #7 Fritz Stickers

Please see attach.

Attached Files

Redirect.zip

8/09/2012 11:21 am | #8 Jason ByrnesWebAssist

sorry, i had the wrong code block, This page doesn't have a redirect if empty behavior on it.

Go to the server behaviors panel, click the plus button and select eCart -> General -> Redirect if empty to add one.

once it is added to the page, move it to be before the UE code block.

8/09/2012 11:44 am | #9 Fritz Stickers

OK ... thanks ... that's working fine.

8/10/2012 6:32 am | #10 Fritz Stickers

One little thing still occurs ...

When the customer clicks the back-button after he confirmed (on confirmed page) and submits the checkout page again, he will be redirected to the page from the "eCart Redirect If Empty" behaviour. No mail will be sent, that's ok.
Also there is no record added in the database, although the orderID-number of the following order increases with two.

Most likely is it due to "eCart Store Cart Summary (& Details) in Db" !?

Is there a way to prevent this ?

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