Shared Carts feature overview

Shopping Cart is a part of the online shop where the record of the items a buyer has “picked up” from the online store is kept. The shopping cart lets customers select products, review what they selected, make modifications or add extra items if needed, and purchase the products.

There are two ways to access a shopping cart:

• Through a shopping cart widget in the header of the web shop.
• From the Shopping Cart page, in the My Account menu.

New items are added to the shopping cart by clicking on Add to Cart on the product details page.

To share a shopping cart, a user needs to click Share cart in the Actions column (on the Shopping Cart page, in the My Account menu) for a cart they want to share—see the Shared Cart on the Storefront section.

Permissions management for shared shopping carts

A shopping cart can be shared with the users of the current business unit. The Share Cart <SHOPPING CART NAME> page consists of the users within the business unit to share the shopping cart with.

There are three types of access rights that can be granted on shopping carts:

• No access
• Read only
• Full access

No access

No access means that the shopping cart is not shared and therefore can not be seen by a user.

Read-only

The Read-only permission allows:

Reading shopping cart. On the Shopping Cart page, the user sees the shopping cart name, access level (Read only), as well as the table of items with the following information:

• Product image
• Product name
• SKU
• Product attribute
• Product options
• Quantity
• Note
• Comments
• Custom order reference
• Price mode
• Item price
• Cart Note
• Discount
• Subtotal
• Tax
• Grand Total

Full access

The Full access permission allows the following:

• Reading shopping cart: On the Shopping cart page, the user sees a shopping cart name, access level (Full access), as well as the table of items with the following information:

  • Product image
  • Product name
  • SKU
  • Product attribute
  • Product options
  • Quantity
  • Note
  • Price mode
  • Item price
  • Cat Note
  • Discount
  • Subtotal
  • Tax
  • Grand Total

• Changing the quantity of items added to a cart. On the Shopping Cart summary page, a user can change the item quantity for the product added to the cart.

• Adding products to a cart. A user can add any products to the cart with full access.

• Removing products from a cart. By clicking on Remove, the user can remove an item from the cart. By clicking on Clear cart, the user deletes all the items in the cart.

• Leaving notes for products in the cart. A user can leave a note to a particular product in the cart on the Shopping cart summary page.

• Leaving notes for the cart. A user can leave a note to a cart on the Shopping cart summary page.

• Entering voucher code.

• Adding a cart to a shopping list. A cart can be converted into a shopping list on the Shopping cart summary page.

• Proceeding to the checkout.

• Editing shopping a cart name. The shopping cart name can be updated on the Shopping Cart page.

• Duplicating a shopping cart. The shopping cart can be duplicated on the Shopping Cart page.

• Dismissing a shared shopping cart. Company users within one business unit can share carts. Such carts can be dismissed if they are no longer needed.

• Deleting a shopping cart. The shopping cart can be deleted on the Shopping Cart page. Deleting a shared shopping cart also deletes it for users it has been shared with.

By default, the user who has created the cart has Owner access permission. Owner access permission allows everything that allows Full access permission and grants the ability to share the cart with other users.

If a user does not need a cart that has been shared with them, they can remove it from their shopping carts and thus cancel sharing. To do so, on the Shopping Cart page, in Actions next to the respective shared shopping cart, the user clicks Dismiss. They can dismiss sharing shopping carts with both Read only and Full access rights. Own shopping carts cannot be dismissed.

Current constraints

With the current functionality, the shopping cart cannot be shared outside of the business unit to which the owner belongs to.

Shared Cart on the Storefront

On the storefront, company users can share a cart with other users within the same business unit:

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