shopping cart

The common method for handling sales in an online store, especially one that offers a variety of products. Using the supermarket cart and checkout metaphor, after the customer selects an item, it is placed into a "virtual shopping cart." The items remain in the cart until the customer is ready to finalize the purchase and enter credit card data.

Carts Use Cookies
Customers are often able to select items, leave the site and come back later to complete the purchase without having to re-enter the items. Shopping cart systems store pending orders for some number of days and identify the cart's contents by storing data (a "cookie") in the user's computer. The next time the user goes to the online store, the cookie identifies the user, and the pending order is retrieved. See cookie and Internet retailer.

The Shopping Cart

Clicking this icon on a website retrieves the current status of the user's shopping cart. The cart metaphor was used in the very beginning of e-commerce on the Web and has remained ever since.

Copyright © 1981-2025 by The Computer Language Company Inc. All Rights reserved. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other reproduction is strictly prohibited without permission from the publisher.

Mentioned in

References in periodicals archive

To comprehend Global eCommerce Shopping Cart Software market dynamics in the world mainly, the worldwide eCommerce Shopping Cart Software market is analyzed across major global regions.

eCommerce Shopping Cart Software Market Update 2019: Exceeding Expectations / Magento, BigCommerce, WIX, Volusion, Weebly

Carrying out an audit every six months to evaluate retrieval, repair and replacement costs of shopping carts, Lulu also deploys staff to drive around in a pickup truck collecting them on a daily basis.

Missing trolleys cost big to supermarkets in UAE

In 2015, the company sold its first shopping cart corral with solar powered lighting packages to Clements Marketplace in Rhode Island.

First impressions: creating a comfortable, safe shopping experience begins at the front-end

Whether it is digital marketing, mobile apps development, CMS, shopping cart, web development and applications development IZISS technology have all digital needs and solution covered in their store.

IZISS Technology Announces the Launch of Their Advanced and Creative Ecommerce Development Services

Approximately $4 trillion worth of merchandise will be abandoned in online shopping carts in 2015 globally, and about 63% of that is potentially recoverable by savvy online retailers.

Your abandoned shopping cart is costing e-commerce players $10bn yearly

This may be because when consumers found a transaction inconvenient, they abandoned the purchase early in the process rather than reaching the stage of putting the goods into the shopping cart. This result contradicts the conclusion of Rajamma et al.

Factors influencing cart abandonment in the online shopping process

While it's important to have a clear vision of what your online presence will look like, the creation and maintenance of a virtual shopping cart is something best left to the professionals.

Selling online: a beginner's guide to setting up an online shopping cart

In addition to already established shopping cart manufacturers, sources as disparate as an eighth-grade student and the U.S.

Pushing into Tomorrow

"The findings from our study show that the current voluntary standards for shopping cart safety are not adequate," said Gary Smith, MD, DrPH, director of the Center for Injury Research and Policy at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio and an APHA member.

Cart injuries send many kids to ER

Functions such as the quotation list and the option to redirect the shopping cart both support the request for quotations," Rainer Mehrer, Chief Executive of FIFA, told us.

FIPA presents website relaunch

The company, which also has offices in London, Singapore and the US, has recently launched a new service that sends customers who abandon their shopping cart while they are still on the website an instant message, helping some of their retail clients to double their online sales.

Software company to create 150 jobs