Working With the Shopping Cart Web Part

The Shopping Cart Web Part displays all the contents of the shopper's cart, and provides the interactive functionality surrounding it (such as the ability to remove items, change quantities, and so on).

The Shopping Cart Web Part lets site designers select the properties you want to display on the site page (product properties, totals, and so on) through a pick list. The selected properties are displayed one line item per row.

The Shopping Cart Web Part also:

  • Displays the total price of the contents of the cart, outside of the grid

  • Provides support for discount codes (a discount code can be entered and validated, and the discount displayed in the cart as appropriate)

  • Provides support for gift certificates

  • Calculates tax, if applicable and set to do so

  • Estimates shipping costs by using parameters entered by the shopper (such as default shipping method, location, and other parameters retrieved from the shopper's profile)

Paging of the cart contents is not provided.

Web Part

The following figure shows the Shopping Cart Web Part.

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Property Sheet

The following figure shows the Shopping Cart Web Part property sheet. The Shopping Cart Web Part property sheet lets site designers control some aspects of the Web Part's behavior and appearance. The property sheet is displayed by selecting the edit option on the Web Page (in Edit Page mode) and then selecting Modify Shared Web Part. This displays the property sheet. Expand the sections to see the relevant properties.

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Properties

The following table lists and describes the properties that you can choose for display.

Property

Type

Description

Default

Template To Display

String

Template file to use to render the lists in the browser.

Sample_MyWishLists

Continue Shopping Page

String

URL to redirect the shopper to continue shopping

category

Checkout Page

String

URL to redirect the shopper to the Cart page.

category

Line Item Columns

String

A comma-separated list of columns to display. An empty list is interpreted as "all available columns".

The default column names. See table below.

Display 'move to list' button

Boolean

If checked, a "Move to List" button will be displayed, allowing the shopper to move an item out of the cart and into a list.

Checked

The following table lists and describes the Line Item Columns that can be displayed.

Property

Description

Preview

Displays an image of the product.

Product ID (optional)

The product identifier property, retrieved from the catalog.

Name

The name of the product, retrieved from the catalog.

Description

Description of the product, retrieved from the catalog.

Options

Variant options (color, size), retrieved from the product definition.

Availability

Inventory status.

Quantity

Changing the quantity of a line item does not trigger the recalculation of the line item price or the removal of the item if the quantity is set to zero. Instead, the shopper manually selects the "Update Cart" link or button to limit the number of server callbacks and improve performance.

Price

Total price per line item (quantity * unit price)

Total

Total price per line item (quantity * unit price)

Toolbox

Displays links and icons to perform various options. (Deleting the Line Item, Add to a Shopping list).

See Also

Other Resources

Working With the Web Parts

Orders Web Parts

Shopping Cart Web Part