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suresh_misra-hotmail - 7/31/2013 11:11:16 AM
   
Dynamic Price Updates in Cart
Hi,

Apologies for a newbie question. Is it possible to have the shopping cart page update its item prices each time you view the cart? The items on my site will be changing price several times each hour, and I don't want the customer to pay out of date prices for items in the cart.

Thank you.

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Brenden Kehren - 7/31/2013 12:43:36 PM
   
RE:Dynamic Price Updates in Cart
WOW not sure I'd want to shop on that site if my price changes that often. ;)

At any rate you could create a webpart that would get the current users cart information and on page load or init update the cart items. Creating a webpart will allow you to put this "update" feature on any page you have cart information. I'd believe placement on the page would be important as well. You'd want to have it load before the cart information. This way you won't have to add any custom handlers in code and/or hard code a page URL.

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suresh_misra-hotmail - 7/31/2013 1:38:47 PM
   
RE:Dynamic Price Updates in Cart
FroggEye wrote: WOW not sure I'd want to shop on that site if my price changes that often. ;)

- you would if you were buying bullion :)

- thank you so much for your help and information FroggEye. I'll see what I can do.

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Brenden Kehren - 8/1/2013 7:50:37 AM
   
RE:Dynamic Price Updates in Cart
suresh_misra-hotmail wrote:
FroggEye wrote: WOW not sure I'd want to shop on that site if my price changes that often. ;)

- you would if you were buying bullion :)
Good point! Not sure I'd be a developer if I had the cash to but that though. :)