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At the moment I have an observer running on the sales_quote_save_before event to check if the customer's cart has a subtotal greater than £100 if they belong to a particular customer group.
This works well besides from it runs every time the customer adds a product to their basket. I only want to run my code if they try to go to the checkout page rather than just viewing the basket page.
Could anyone advise of the event I would need to use
use the event controller_action_predispatch_checkout_onepage_index.
You have a few events you can use during checkout. My first advice based on your question would be to use: checkout_onepage_controller_success_action
To check a list of all checkout events see this: https://www.yireo.com/tutorials/magento/magento-programming/633-events-with-magento-checkout
For a generic list of events for magento 1.8 check this: https://www.nicksays.co.uk/magento-events-cheat-sheet-1-8/
We can achieve it if they(user) try to click shipping or billing address (continue button) at this check point write an observer for your logic.
