After a person has tried unsuccessfully to login more than the maximum number of tries, the account is locked until customer service can verify that it is the customer. New online customers must establish accounts in order to purchase something. This online process takes less than 2 minutes. Window shopping lets people cruise your catalog, filling their order without being logged in under an account. The program requires your customer to create an account prior to checking out.
Customers can choose to securely store credit card information in their account records.
This eliminates the need to re-enter and transmit this information for each order. WebCog Commerce does not accept I.P. address changes mid-session. Stored Credit Card information is never re-displayed to the Customer. The cards are stored, so that customers with multiple transactions only have to send their card-number once. Stored Credit Cards are disabled if the user changes their shipping address.