Prestashop: FO -- No validation on the birthdate in the checkout process

[SD1982]

Describe the bug

There is no validation on the birthdate in the FO checkout process

Expected behavior

A validation could be a good improvement

Steps to Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Go to FO and create a cart
2. Fill all the field
3. In the birthdate field enter 01/01/0001
4. See error => The date is accepted

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Additional information

• PrestaShop version: 1.7.6.x , 1.7.7.x, develop
• PHP version: 7.1

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[Sinepel]

Hi! Thank you for your issue.
What control would you like to implement ? It's quite complicated to determine.

No date before 1900?

Thanks !

[rdy4ever]

If you validate the birthdate (and return hard errors for non valid birthdates) during checkout you'll increase the cart abandonment rate. Actually, you should not ask for birthdate during checkout at all. This field shoud be completely removed, from an UX point of view and I often wonder why is it still present in Prestashop. Prestashop checkout shoud focus into getting the user to finish the order fast, easy and should require only strictly necessary infomation in order to fulfill the order. Studies show each extra field increases the chance of cart abandonment. You should read Google UX Playbook for ecommerce. In my shop I no longer require gender or birthdate at all and my conversion rate increased after this.

[Sinepel]

Hi !

I agree with you, but as long as you can deactivate this field in the back office, isn't that enough?

Thank you!