Creating a shopping cart display
One of the primary components of a shopping cart is the shopping cart display: the portion of your shopping cart that lists all items added to the cart, their detail information, and any additional discounts and charges applied to the cart total, including tax and shipping calculations.Items added to the shopping cart can be configured to allow updates to item information contained within the cart, the most common example being the quantity of an item. Buttons included in the display allow the user to:
- update items
- redirect to a specified page to continue the shopping experience
- remove selected items
- initiate the checkout process
Features
eCart ships with the eCart Display Manager feature: a simple step-by-step wizard that configures your shopping cart display. 3 professionally designed display skins are available in 11 different color schemes for you to use to create your display design. Users have the option of using provided button images or form buttons for each skin, offering a total of 66 different skin configuration possibilities. Each skin uses CSS to control the design attributes that renders the shopping cart.In addition, there are four types of shopping cart displays available for insertion in the page:
- Updateable Cart - fully functional shopping cart display
- Read-Only cart - display only, users will not be able to apply changes to the shopping cart from within the display
- Email-friendly cart - display only, this cart design is designed for sending order details to user via email, providing a display type that is compatible with most html email-rendering engines.
- Quick Cart - minimal cart display providing the number of items, the cart total, and the ability to re-direct to the Updateable Cart, clear the contents of the cart, or checkout.
As well, each component of the shopping cart display is available as individual server behaviors and data bindings within eCart. Instead of using the eCart Display Manager, advanced users who are comfortable with the architecture of the shopping cart display may develop using each of these components in conjunction with their own html and CSS display layout.