What is the point of incomplete orders hogging an order number?
I get this quite often. Orders that are incomplete and they stay there and then the same person checkout again an hour or a day later and it goes through but creates a new order number.
Why can’t it NOT create an “incompleted order” in the first place? 
[quote name=‘purelife’]What is the point of incomplete orders hogging an order number?
I get this quite often. Orders that are incomplete and they stay there and then the same person checkout again an hour or a day later and it goes through but creates a new order number.
Why can’t it NOT create an “incompleted order” in the first place? [/QUOTE]
This problem remains for couple of years minimum…
Because cs-cart uses callback methods for payment for most payment methods, there needs to be a way to identify the order uniquely to apply the payment. Hence they create the order and use the status to determine (uhh) the status! 