Overview
Guest customers create their account in one click on the thank-you page, with every past guest order linked to it.
- Guests become customers
- One field after the order
- Past orders linked
Best for: Stores with many guest orders
Installation
- Download guestly-guest-to-account.zip from My account › My plugins or from your order email. Do not unzip it.
- In WordPress, go to Plugins › Add New Plugin › Upload Plugin, choose the zip and click Install Now, then Activate.
Requires WordPress 6.0+, PHP 7.4+, WooCommerce 7.0+. Works with any theme, block themes and page builders.
Features
- Account offer on the thank-you page
- Just a password: email and details come from the order
- Past guest orders with the same email linked
- Customer logged in right away
- Shown only for a few hours after the order
- Your title, benefits and color
- Works with guest checkout kept on
Shortcodes
Paste a shortcode in any page, post, widget or page builder text block.
[guestly_preview]
Options of each shortcode are described in the Features above and in the plugin settings page.
For developers
Customize the plugin from your theme’s functions.php or a small plugin, without editing its files (your changes survive updates).
Filters
guestly_activeguestly_sanitize
add_filter( 'guestly_active', function ( $value ) {
// Change $value here.
return $value;
}, 10, 1 );Actions
guestly_admin_after_formguestly_admin_before_formguestly_admin_form_end
Updates
Updates are free. When a new version is out, it appears in Dashboard › Updates of your WordPress site and you can install it in one click, or turn on automatic updates in Plugins. This works for the zip downloaded from your Woo-Plugins account; older copies can be replaced by downloading the latest version from My plugins. See the changelog.
Frequently asked questions
Does it remove guest checkout?
No, it keeps guest checkout and offers the account afterwards.
Is it secure?
The order key and a nonce are checked, and only emails without an account are accepted.
Still stuck?
Write to us with your WordPress and WooCommerce versions and what you tried: we answer by email.