Checkout Steps

The checkout process consists of the following steps:

• Entry step (cart creation)
• Customer step
• Address step
• Shipment step
• Payment step
• Summary step
• Place order stop
• Success step

Read on to learn more on each step.

Entry Step

The entry step redirects the customer to correct step based on QuoteTransfer state. This step requires input = false, so it won’t be rendered.

Customer Step

The customer step provides three forms:

• login
• register
• register as a guest

This step is responsible for filling CustomerTransfer with corresponding data. The authentication logic is left to customer module, this step is only delegating calls to (and from) customer module and mapping data with forms.

Address Step

The address step is the step where customer fills billing and shipping addresses in QuoteTransfer::billingAddress and QuoteTransfer::shippingAddress respectively. This step lets the returning customers select one of the existing addresses or create a new one. New address will be created only if “Save new address to address book” checkbox is checked. Otherwise, it is saved in Order, but won’t be stored in the database. This allows customer to skip new address saving if they want to. New and guest customers can only create a new address. If a new address is selected, it’s only created when order is placed and OrderCustomerSavePlugin plugin is enabled.

Shipment Step

Get shipment method information and store it into the quote. This step requires additional configuration because different shipment providers and different ways forms should be handled for each.

Form Handling

ShipmentForm uses subforms and each subform is implemented as a plugin that implements CheckoutSubFormInterface and is provided in CheckoutFactory::createShipmentMethodsSubForms(). The main form uses quote transfer as data store. Data for shipment is stored under QuoteTransfer::shipment as a ShipmentTransfer object.

ShipmentTransfer contains:

Data Handling

Data handling happens after a valid form is being submitted during the ShipmentStep; step receives plugins that implement CheckoutStepHandlerPluginInterface and provided in CheckoutFactory::createShipmentPlugins(). When execute() method is called on ShipmentStep then the plugin that is identified by the ShipmentTransfer::shipmentSelection string is selected and method CheckoutStepHandlerPluginInterface::addToQuote() is called to update QuoteTransfer with payment data. From this part, the data handling is left to concrete CheckoutStepHandler.

The approach of implementing shipment and payment handlers and forms are the same PaymentStep.

• shipmentSelection (string) — the name of the form for the selected shipment.
• carrier (ShipmentCarrierTransfer) — includes information on the shipment carrier.
• method (ShipmentMethodTransfer) — contains information about the shipment method that is currently selected.

Payment Step

Get payment information and store it into quote for later processing when state machine is triggered.

Payment step has similar structure and data handling mechanics as the shipment step does.

Form Handling

PaymentForm uses subforms. Each subform is implemented as a plugin that implements CheckoutSubFormPluginInterface and is provided in the CheckoutFactory::createPaymentMethodSubForms(). Main form uses QuoteTransfer as a data store. Data for payment is stored under QuoteTransfer::payment as a PaymentTransfer object.

Main form has radio buttons, where the customer can select from the available payment methods. Choices are built from the subform name. Each provided subform corresponds to a radio input.

When the form is created, it requires the property path to be provided so that it knows how to map its subform to QuoteTransfer. see property_path. Property path is built out of few parts of PaymentTransfer::payment and subform provides getPropertyPath() that returns a string; this string should return the property that exists under PaymentTransfer.

PaymentTransfer includes:

• paymentProvider (string) — payment provider name (Paypal, Payolution etc..).
• paymentMethod (string) — payment method (credit card, invoice).
• paymentSelection (string) — subform name that is currently selected.

Data handling

Data handling happens after a valid form is submitted during the PaymentStep. The step receives plugins that implement CheckoutStepHandlerPluginInterface and that are provided in the CheckoutFactory::createPaymentPlugins(). When execute() method is called on PaymentStep, the plugin that is identified by PaymentTransfer::paymentSelection string is selected and the CheckoutStepHandlerPluginInterface::addToQuote() is called to update QuoteTransfer with the payment data. From this part, all population or data handling is left to concrete CheckoutStepHandler.

Summary Step

Display order information about the item to be placed, details and order totals.

Place Order Step

Place order into the system. This step requires input = false. This step makes Zed HTTP request which sends QuoteTransfer. In this step, all order saving is happening.

Success Page

When the success page is executed, QuoteTransfer is cleared. Also, customer session is marked as dirty so that with the next request it would reload with the updated data (new customer address).

Checkout Step Interface

 #
  <?php
  interface StepInterface
  {
	/**
	 * Requirements for this step, return true when satisfied.
	 *
	 * @param QuoteTransfer $quoteTransfer
	 *
	 * @return bool
	 */
	public function preCondition(QuoteTransfer $quoteTransfer);
	/**
	 * Require input, should we render view with form or just skip step after calling execute.
	 *
	 * @return bool
	 */
	public function requireInput();
	/**
	 * Execute step logic, happens after form submit if provided, gets QuoteTransfer filled by data from form.
	 *
	 * @param Request $request
	 * @param QuoteTransfer $quoteTransfer
	 *
	 * @return QuoteTransfer
	 */
	public function execute(Request $request, QuoteTransfer $quoteTransfer);
	/**
	 * Conditions that should be met for this step to be marked as completed. returns true when satisfied.
	 *
	 * @param QuoteTransfer $quoteTransfer
	 *
	 * @return bool
	 */
	public function postCondition(QuoteTransfer $quoteTransfer);
	/**
	 * Current step route.
	 *
	 * @return string
	 */
	public function getStepRoute();
	/**
	 * Escape route when preConditions are not satisfied user will be redirected to provided route.
	 *
	 * @return string
	*/
	public function getEscapeRoute();
 }

Step with External Redirect Interface

 #
   <?php
   interface StepWithExternalRedirectInterface extends StepInterface
   {
   	/**
   	 * Return external redirect url, when redirect occurs not within same application. Used after execute.
   	 *
   	 * @return string
   	 */
   	public function getExternalRedirectUrl();
   }

Current Constraints

Currently, the feature has the following functional constraints which are going to be resolved in the future.

• all the stores inside a project share a single checkout with the same steps