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Hi,

Civi creates the contact records before payment is done. So if payment fails somehow then if the user decides that hes going to register again at a later time then he cannot use the same email as a contact record already exists for the same email.

With paypal standard the problem is worse it creates everything before payment is done. So the user when again making payment wont be able to use the email or the joomla username.

Currenly I dont care about paypal standard mode. Using credit payment with paypal pro  is there anyway for civi to create contacts and everything AFTER payment succeeds. I know that it would take some amount of coding. But with the current form of civi is that going to be too difficult?

Im using joomla 1.5 and civi 3.1.6

Thanks in advance

Hmmm dont know how to do it. But I will give it a try.

BUT the current way is correct if there is a contact with the same email then it should not allow anyone else to register with the same email. It may not always be the same user coming back to complete payment. It could be someone else who entered the wrong email id accidentally.

So doing the payment first and then creating the records, Is that going to be really tough?

During membership renewal (ie the user is logged in and click on the contribution page) the email i guess is automatically filled up there and the validation doesn't stop it. When a new member signs up it stops the user if a contact already exist for the same email.

I only allow people to register to my site via the contribution page. So the issue is a user registering for the first time enters a email and tries to register. some how hes cannot complete the payment. He investigates that and comes back at a later time and enters the same email and tries to register. But he cannot.