The more clicks and actions you make the user take, the more likely they are to abandon your cart and buy nothing. The success screen that appears after a user creates their account is virtually worthless. The following modification will send your user straight to the shipping checkout screen if they have contents in their cart. If they don’t, then they’ll see the success screen
(Note, this is for version 1.3.x +)
Locate includes/modules/create_account.php
Find the following line, it will be towards the bottom of the page
zen_redirect(zen_href_link(FILENAME_CREATE_ACCOUNT_SUCCESS, ”, ‘SSL’));
Replace it with the following
if($_SESSION['cart']->contents) {
zen_redirect(zen_href_link(FILENAME_CHECKOUT_SHIPPING, ”, ‘SSL’));
}else{
zen_redirect(zen_href_link(FILENAME_CREATE_ACCOUNT_SUCCESS, ”, ‘SSL’));
}
And that’s it!