Hello,
I would like to be able to add a bunch of items to the shopping cart and prior to checkout, select only the ones I would like to order at that specific time and proceed to checkout items I have selected from the shopping cart.
For example, I added 20 different items to the shopping cart, however, I would like to order only 5 of them right now and the other ones a bit later. I would go to the shopping cart, mark the 5 items I would like to order and proceed to checkout, leaving the other 15 items inside the shopping cart as they were.
This is very useful when having a large marketplace website, where searching for the right product consumes time and when the user finds all the required products, he might not be able to order them all for several reason, one being that he would like to split the payment on different credit cards or he would like the orders shipped to different addresses, there are many other reasons. Having a wishlist is not always helpful, because the user might have a whole bunch of products in the wishlist for a later review and to filter out the ones he would like to order now is cumbersome.
I have searched among the existing functionality and plugins available, however, I cannot find this feature anywhere.
I know this may be developed as a custom plugin, but I'm looking firstly at the current possibilities available right now. Any suggestions for currently available resolutions?
Selection of items from the shopping cart to checkout
MVP
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Yes I don’t think there any plugins to do this
Normally the order is created with whatever products are in the shopping cart then the cart is cleared.
A customised plugin could work like you suggested - There are a couple of ways you could do it
There is a wish list so rather than add to the cart you can add items to the wish list
Then the customer goes to the wish list and selects the items to Add to cart, the remaining items stay in the wish list
Or another way - there could be another button on the shopping cart called "Buy Now and Save for Later" where the customer ticks the items they want to buy now and then clicks the button. The other items not ticked could then be added to the Wishlist.
Later when the customer returns they can go to the wish list and decide to add items to the cart.
Normally the order is created with whatever products are in the shopping cart then the cart is cleared.
A customised plugin could work like you suggested - There are a couple of ways you could do it
There is a wish list so rather than add to the cart you can add items to the wish list
Then the customer goes to the wish list and selects the items to Add to cart, the remaining items stay in the wish list
Or another way - there could be another button on the shopping cart called "Buy Now and Save for Later" where the customer ticks the items they want to buy now and then clicks the button. The other items not ticked could then be added to the Wishlist.
Later when the customer returns they can go to the wish list and decide to add items to the cart.
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Yidna wrote:
The idea is actually not to use a wishlist as I mentioned in the initial message, but to keep items inside the cart, that were not selected for checkout. Is that possible to do, or the service clears cart after the checkout process?
Yes I don’t think there any plugins to do this
Normally the order is created with whatever products are in the shopping cart then the cart is cleared.
A customised plugin could work like you suggested - There are a couple of ways you could do it
There is a wish list so rather than add to the cart you can add items to the wish list
Then the customer goes to the wish list and selects the items to Add to cart, the remaining items stay in the wish list
Or another way - there could be another button on the shopping cart called "Buy Now and Save for Later" where the customer ticks the items they want to buy now and then clicks the button. The other items not ticked could then be added to the Wishlist.
Later when the customer returns they can go to the wish list and decide to add items to the cart.
Normally the order is created with whatever products are in the shopping cart then the cart is cleared.
A customised plugin could work like you suggested - There are a couple of ways you could do it
There is a wish list so rather than add to the cart you can add items to the wish list
Then the customer goes to the wish list and selects the items to Add to cart, the remaining items stay in the wish list
Or another way - there could be another button on the shopping cart called "Buy Now and Save for Later" where the customer ticks the items they want to buy now and then clicks the button. The other items not ticked could then be added to the Wishlist.
Later when the customer returns they can go to the wish list and decide to add items to the cart.
The idea is actually not to use a wishlist as I mentioned in the initial message, but to keep items inside the cart, that were not selected for checkout. Is that possible to do, or the service clears cart after the checkout process?
MVP
Certified Developer
- 4210
- 37617
- 2/8/2010
- Australia
Virtually anything is possible with customisation
You can store the items not selected somewhere and create the order for item items selected
Then after the order is created refill the cart with the items that were not selected
I was just using Wishlist as temporary storage but you could use another mechanism
You can store the items not selected somewhere and create the order for item items selected
Then after the order is created refill the cart with the items that were not selected
I was just using Wishlist as temporary storage but you could use another mechanism