End-users of our commerce solution can log in, in two ways: With their email-address or using a booking number as user name.
They log in with an email-address when they already have a user profile on our site. If they don't want a user profile, they can choose to log in with their booking number. This will log them in, but it doesn't necessarily create a user profile. If they log in with a booking number, add some stuff to their cart, log out and later log in with their booking number again, they should see the cart's content from their first visit (we will store the cart on the commerce side).
- Should we use Sitecore virtual users for the users that will log in with booking number?
- What are the advantages/drawbacks as opposed to using regular Sitecore users for this?
- I read that virtual users only exist in memory. I expect it works when scaling out? I mean, will all CD servers know about the virtual user logging in on one of them?
It should be possible for the user to log in by booking number and then, later in the user session, "upgrade" to a user profile, that is actually stored in our database.
- Is this easy enough to do with virtual users?
- Perhaps it will be easier than creating actual Sitecore users for booking-logins because we in this situation would have to delete the old user (with booking number as user name) and create a new one (with email-address as user name)?
