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Certified Developer v7	adam - 7/5/2012 9:48:09 AM eCommerce save basket Hi is there away of saving a whole shopping/multiple baskets for later?

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kentico_zdenekc - 7/13/2012 5:03:32 AM

RE:eCommerce save basket

Hi,

Please see the E-commerce guide article on purchase process / Shopping cart content (at the bottom).

The abandoned shopping cart is automatically saved and then retrieved according to
Shopping cart retrieval scheme

You can control the time of the cart expiration by setting the

CMSShoppingCartExpirationPeriod key in the web.config. It represents

Number of days after which E-commerce shopping cart content is deleted from the database. It's used for deleting unused shopping carts of anonymous users that are stored in the database with ID stored in the browser cookie.

The default value is 30.

usage example (in AppSettings section):

<add key="CMSShoppingCartExpirationPeriod" value="60" />

That's for the anonymous shopping cart. If you are logged as existing customer, the cart will be preserved for any time.

However, it's currently not possible to have multiple shopping carts saved for a single customer. Also, the "save cart" action is not in the default controls, although it could be implemented using API (http://devnet.kentico.com/downloads/kenticocms_api.zip) / ShoppingCartInfoProvider class methods.

How would you imagine such functionality to be managed? Do you have some examples / existing E-commerce solutions?

Thanks in advance for your feedback.

Regards,
Zdenek

Certified Developer v7

ianwright - 11/12/2013 3:05:17 AM

RE:eCommerce save basket

Hi Zdenek,

I actually have a similar need for this sort of functionality. What I need to be able to do is allow the user to add some items to their cart and then 'Save' a quote for the required materials which they can then later come back to.

This would require having multiple carts so they can have multiple quotes, which will expire after a period and allow checkout on any one of them.


Certified Developer 13	kentico_josefd - 12/4/2013 9:04:16 AM RE:eCommerce save basket Hi Ian, I can see you have replied to a rather old thread. Do you need this functionality for v5, or are you using some a newer version? Regards, Josef


Certified Developer v7	ianwright - 12/4/2013 9:40:01 AM RE:eCommerce save basket No - it was a version 7 solution that I was implementing that it would have been really useful for...

Certified Developer 13

kentico_josefd - 12/5/2013 12:33:50 PM

RE:eCommerce save basket

Hi Ian,

You can assign any shopping cart object you want to to the EcommerceContext.CurrentShoppingCart property. For example like this:

ShoppingCartInfo cart = ShoppingCartInfoProvider.GetShoppingCartInfo(<CartID>);
ECommerceContext.CurrentShoppingCart = cart;

All web parts that work with this value will need a full page refresh to reload the new cart object.

You can create a blank shopping cart like this:

// Context cart
ShoppingCartInfo conCart = ECommerceContext.CurrentShoppingCart;

// New cart
ShoppingCartInfo newCart = ShoppingCartInfo.CreateShoppingCartInfo(CurrentSite.SiteID);

// Copy basic information
newCart.SetValue("ShoppingCartUserID", conCart.ShoppingCartUserID);
newCart.SetValue("ShoppingCartCustomerID", conCart.ShoppingCartCustomerID);
newCart.SetValue("ShoppingCartCurrencyID", conCart.ShoppingCartCurrencyID);

// Insert into database
newCart.Insert();

Please note there are no checks which would stop you from assigning an incorrect cart (for example other user's cart), as this feature is not officially supported.

Let me know if you need any more help.

Regards,
Josef