This topic describes how to create a new shopping cart in your customer account.

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A shopping cart is a place in the e-commerce store where the products you are going to purchase are stored.

To create a shopping cart:

1. On the Shopping Carts page or in the Shopping Cart Widget, click +Create Shopping Cart.

See [Shopping Carts: Reference Information](/docs/scos/user/shop-user-guides/202005.0/shop-guide-customer-account/references/shopping-carts-reference-information.html

for information on the Shopping Carts page contents.) 

2. Enter the cart name in the Cart Name field.
3. Click Submit.

You can also create a shopping cart via a Shopping Cart Widget.

1. Follow the steps described below to do so: Navigate to the header of the shop application → My Cart.
2. Click Create New Cart.
3. Enter the name of the cart in the Cart Name field.
4. Click Submit.

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What’s next?

See Managing Shopping Carts to learn more about the actions you can do once the shopping cart is created.