version 7: Customer logged out after checking out?

[Eddie Caplan]

It seems that the customer is logged out after completing his order.
Is this the normal, expected, behavior? This is *not* a timeout. That
has a different symptom... I get a message telling me that I was logged
out due to inactivity.

I'd think that this is only a nuisance for the average user, but while
I'm debugging the checkout procedure I've made many passes through the
purchase-checkout loop (needing to be logged in) and I've had to
re-login every time.


Thanks,
Eddie

P.S. I appreciate everyone's helpfulness. I hope that someday I'll be
proficient enough to be helpful to somebody else!

[David H]

Yes, logging out after completing the order is the expected behavior. This
is for security purposes. If someone did an order from a public computer
and walked away someone else could then access their information if they
were not logged out.

-David H.

"Eddie Caplan" <eddiec_NOSPAM@NOSPAM_stararcher.com> wrote in message
news:180120041656170005%eddiec_NOSPAM@NOSPAM_stararcher.com...

It seems that the customer is logged out after completing his order.
Is this the normal, expected, behavior? This is *not* a timeout. That
has a different symptom... I get a message telling me that I was logged
out due to inactivity.

I'd think that this is only a nuisance for the average user, but while
I'm debugging the checkout procedure I've made many passes through the
purchase-checkout loop (needing to be logged in) and I've had to
re-login every time.


Thanks,
Eddie

P.S. I appreciate everyone's helpfulness. I hope that someday I'll be
proficient enough to be helpful to somebody else!