Upcoming Changes to Checkout Customization | Spree Commerce

Upcoming changes to checkout customization - feedback encouraged.

Upcoming Changes to Checkout Customization Posted July 11, 2012 by radar Comments A lot of our users have complained about how hard it is to customize the checkout flow of Spree. Some of our users wanted to remove the delivery step when shoppers had only digital goods in their cart. Others wanted to remove all the steps except for address. Another group wanted to be able to add steps to the checkout process in between the currently existing steps. Currently, you need to override the entire state machine inside the Spree::Order class to do this, even including events that you shouldn’t need to care about, such as cancel and return authorizations. We’ve recently had a long discussion about this on an issue brought up by one of our users, Colin Gemmell. In this instance, Colin wanted to re-define the state machine, but ran into problems where in doing so, it would raise spamm...

Full article: http://spreecommerce.com/blog/2012/07/11/upcoming-changes...