What is Shopping cart?
Also called: Cart, Bag, Cart drawer
The short answer
A shopping cart holds the products a shopper intends to buy until checkout; a cart drawer slides in from the side so shopping continues uninterrupted.
Shopping cart, explained
Carts usually live in the browser or a session and are handed to checkout at the end.
Questions people ask about Shopping cart
What is Shopping cart?
A shopping cart holds the products a shopper intends to buy until checkout; a cart drawer slides in from the side so shopping continues uninterrupted.
Related terms
Checkout is the sequence where a shopper enters shipping and payment details and places an order; it is where most online sales are won or lost.
Cart abandonmentCart abandonment is when shoppers add items to a cart but leave without buying, commonly because of surprise costs, forced account creation or a long checkout.
E-commerceE-commerce is buying and selling online: a website that shows products, takes orders and payments, and hands orders to fulfilment.
Payment gatewayA payment gateway securely passes card and wallet payments from a website to the banks and card networks, and reports whether each payment succeeded.
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