Have you heard? Handmade selling venue Artfire is enabling shopping checkout functionality that will allow a buyer to purchase an item without having to create an account on the site. According to the Artfire blog:
“Kyle has been tweaking the No Account Checkout for buyers and is pushing to have it fully functional on the site by this evening. This feature will allow new shoppers to successful purchase any item on the site without having to set up an account first. All they’ll have to do is enter in their shipping and billing address and proceed with their payment method. This is great for people who are unfamiliar with the site and don’t wish to set up an account just to make a purchase. However, members should keep in mind that since these shoppers will not be setting up an account, they will be unable to send or receive Karma and Kudos for an order. ”
FABULOUS!
Artfire is enabling shopping functionality that should make the check out process much much easier for the casual shopper. Of course, creating a shopping account on the site will give buyers more functionality (like hotlisting items and ranking sales transactions), but functionality to make the shopping process easier is a great enhancement.
Edited on 2-23/2003 to add: It’s live! Here’s a forum post about no account required check out on Artfire
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that is very cool! many buyers get hung up on account creation with an impulse purchase and it drives them away. Good thinking ArtFire!
Glad to see they are continuing to improve the site. I’ve had such low traffic there. Maybe I need to head back over and list some of my new stuff.
That is very cool…considering that I just opened a verified account with them :] I really hope they are successful and really take off!
That’s most definitely what made me check them out..smart people!
I’ve tagged you to play the 6 x 6 game over on my blog!
And, they’ve also just rolled out a super fast checkout tool called Fast Cart. I’ll have a blog post about it in a day or so. Artfire seriously rocks.