Shopping Cart Functionality

Shopping Cart and Persistence

opentaps provides each active Customer a Shopping Cart, and does preserve the Shopping Cart between Registered-Customer sessions if there is no Checkout. This is called persistence, which means that the Customer must clear out the contents when appropriate. Otherwise the contents are retained and processed in the next Checkout event.

CAUTION:  Be aware that a few Customers will forget about persistence and
accidentally order something that was left in their shopping cart on the last visit. 
When they come back to shop and add a new item that they are focusing on,
they will also Checkout any old item that was left in the Cart. 

Most stores and Customers consider a persistent shopping cart to be a good feature since the Customers shopping efforts are preserved in case they are interrupted and return to shopping later.

(Customers can disable persistence by turning off Cookies. Persistence works via Cookies which must be enabled in the Customer's web browser. Cookies are usually controlled via a browser menu such as "preferences" or "options" settings. But, Cookies are used by many web sites to remember their Customers, so turning this off may not be a satisfactory option.)