Make Phone Number Required During Account Signup

🔍 Problem Statement

We have noticed that some new customer accounts are being created without a phone number because the phone number field is currently optional during account registration. We need to ensure that every customer who creates an account through our online registration flow provides a phone number, rather than allowing accounts to be created with only an email address.

Making the phone number mandatory will allow us to consistently collect this information during registration and prevent incomplete customer profiles from being created.

💡 User Story

We want the phone number field to be required during online account registration so that customers cannot complete the account creation process without providing a phone number.

🎯Definition of Done

✔ The phone number field is required during online account registration.

✔ Customers cannot complete registration without providing a phone number.