Using email as username

-- HikaShop version -- : 6.1.0
-- Joomla version -- : 5.3.3
-- PHP version -- : 8.4

Hi!

Is there any option to active a feature that makes the email address of the customer = username or hides the username?

Most webshops in the world offer only email address and password as account credentials. But Hikashop want to create an email address AND a username. This is very uncomfortable for most users / customers. It would be a very useful feature if we could turn off the need of the creation of a username. Alternativly HikaShop should use the email address internally as username - if the username is needed.

What do you think?

P.S. In the meantime I made a little workaround: renamed the language strings and so we use technical the email as username.

Hi,

To do that, change the "Registation" setting to "simplified registration with password" under the Checkout tab of the HikaShop configuration:
www.hikashop.com/support/documentation/5....html#checkout_login

nicolas wrote: To do that, change the "Registation" setting to "simplified registration with password" under the Checkout tab of the HikaShop configuration:
www.hikashop.com/support/documentation/5....html#checkout_login

Hm ... no, it's not what I want. In this case the username is still used - and given to the customer. And he has to use it to log into the account. I want to remove every (!) hint of a username in it's classic (visual) style. The customer ONLY should know and use his email address as "username".

I know this is a basic Joomla issue - not Hikashop. But hoped there could be a good solution. However ... as I wrote before my workaround is good enough for the moment. It's not that elegant but works.

Hi,

No, in this case, the email address of the customer is used as username. And thus, the customer can use his email address for the "username" field when logging in. Then, it's not a matter of having a translation override for the different login forms to change the text "username" to "email address" so that the customers use their email address.