update the customer's email

[Umut-Schweiz]

Hi guys, is it possible to update the customer email instead of creating a new one ?

https://simple-commerce.duncanmcclean.com/tags/cart -> Update Cart
I tried the relevant section in the document, but only those other than email work.

In this case, only name or however you define it is updated. But the email is not updated!

Actually, the only thing I want to ask is how can I update the customer's email in the cart?

[duncanmcclean]

Hey 👋

I've just did a little bit of testing and unfortunately, there's no way to update a customer's email address with the {{ sc:cart:update }} tag. When you provide a new email, it'll create a completely new customer.

I can't change this without introducing a breaking change but I'll take note for v6. We can probably make it so <input type="email" name="customer[email]"> updates the existing customer entry if the order already has a customer set.

In the meantime, there's two ways you could potentially workaround this limitation:

• Use the {{ sc:customer:update }} tag (although, you can't use this inside another form)
• Use a placeholder field, listen for the order being updated, then update the customer
  • Use another name for the email field that's not picked up by Simple Commerce (eg customer_email) <input type="email" name="customer_email">
  • Add that field to the whitelist in your simple-commerce.php
  • Create an event listener that listens for the OrderSaved event. In that listener, you can check if customer_email is set on the order.
    • If the order doesn't already have a customer assigned, create one and associate it with the order.
      • Customer::make()->email($order->get('customer_email'))->save()
      • $order->customer($customer)->save()
    • If the order does already have a customer, check if the email matches. If it doesn't, update the existing customer.
      • $order->customer()->email($order->get('customer_email'))->save()

Hopefully that's helpful - sorry it's not possible yet in SC!

[Umut-Schweiz]

Hi 👋

Thanks for your answer. A solution like this came to my mind. But it would be really easy to do this with {{ sc:customer:update }}.I will find a temporary solution for this and wait for the update :)