Hi,
I see that you have some required fields in your first screenshot.
Are you sure that one field is not missing ?
The button next is not available still the user is not "logged" or have a "guest account".
The "next" button allow the customer to validate the creation of the guest account but if some fields are missing or if there is a problem during the creation of the guest user, the page will reload and the guest account won't be there.
You can check that your template is compatible with the joomla messaging system.
www.hikashop.com/support/support/documen...issues.html#messages
Maybe HikaShop is displaying you an error message and you can't see it.
Regards,
Jerome - Obsidev.com
HikaMarket & HikaSerial developer / HikaShop core dev team.
Also helping the HikaShop support team when having some time or couldn't sleep.
By the way, do not send me private message, use the "contact us" form instead.