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Hello All,
I have a few questions regarding using the ExpressionEngine custom member profile fields with CartThrob.

During the checkout process the user has the ability to create a member account - I am wondering if there is a way to store the users form information in the proper member custom fields if they opt to create a membership (which is not required for checkout)?

Please let me know if I can provide any other information or if this question is better asked of CartThrob.

Thanks!
Nathan

This is probably better asked on the CartThrob forums. Chris and Rob are great.

The last site that I used CartThrob on was able to update the member’s phone number and email address when we messed up and left the fields empty during checkout, so it has some ability to update your data. How that correlates to creating accounts is beyond my experience.

Yeah, you can do this for sure. I think it’s in the save customer data form. But best to post on cartthrob as they are the business as EpicVoyage says. They are pretty rapid with support too.

Hey nhinshaw,

Sounds like you have had some help from the community. That’s awesome.

Please let us know how things go with Cartthrobe support.

Cheers,

Thanks for the help everyone - this may be a problem that can be addressed at the CartThrob forums (agreed that Chris and Rob are great) but I want to hedge my bets since I am using some native EE functionality, if there are any tips I would greatly appreciate it.

Here is my issue as of now, I can get the fields to properly display the information gathered in the save_customer_info form and get it it print in the following area (which is where the user has the ability to create an account):

<label for="create_user" id="new-user-label"><strong>Check this box to create a user account:</strong></label>
     <input type="checkbox" id="new-user-checkbox" name="create_user" value="yes" />
     <label for="username">Username *</label>
     <input type="text" name="username" value="" />
     <label for="email">Email *</label>
     <input type="text" name="email" value="{customer_email_address}" />
     <label for="account-password">Password *</label>
     <input type="password" name="password"  value="" />
     <label for="password_confirm">Re-Password *</label>
     <input type="password" name="password_confirm" value="" />
     <label for="m_field_id_1" class="visuallyhidden">First Name</label>
     <input type="hidden" name='m_field_id_1' id='m_field_id_1' value="{customer_first_name}" />

However it doesn’t save this data to the custom member fields in the admin after the user is created.

Any ideas on why that might not be happening?

Thanks!
Nathan

Hey nhinshaw,

Do those custom fields belong to cartThrobe?

How are things going at this point, have you hear back from the guys?

Cheers,