Carts & Orders

Customers

Carts and orders are associated with customers - representing the customer who purchased something from your store.

There are two types of customers in Cargo:

• Users
  • Plain old Statamic users
  • Makes it really simple to build user account functionality (using Statamic's login/register tags).
  • Allows you to easily manage customers in the Control Panel
• Guest customers
  • Guest customers are saved on individual orders, useful for stores without user accounts or selling one-time purchases.
  • Can be converted to a user in the Control Panel.

When a logged out customer checks out, Cargo creates a "guest customer" using their name and email address.

Whereas, when a logged in customer checks out, Cargo will associate the order with the currently logged in user.

To force customers to be real Statamic users, you should ensure they're already logged in before hitting the checkout page.

Merging carts upon login

By default, when a customer logs in, their current cart will be merged with any carts started on other devices.

You can disable this behaviour in the cargo.php config file:

// config/statamic/cargo.php

'carts' => [
	'merge_on_login' => true,
],

Always checkout as guest

By default, when a logged-in user checks out, Cargo will associate the order with their user account.

If you'd prefer to always create guest customers instead (even when users are logged in), you may enable the always_checkout_as_guest option:

// config/statamic/cargo.php

'carts' => [
	'always_checkout_as_guest' => true,
],

When enabled, customer details will be saved on the order, rather than being linked to a user account.