A description of the Sueetie Marketplace Shopping Cart.
One Shopping Cart, Multiple Payment Providers
The Sueetie Marketplace Shopping Cart is designed to be used with all Sueetie Payment Service Providers with the exception of PayPal Standard Payments. PayPal Standard Payments, where PayPal hosts the shopping cart, is a great service. Most communities want to control and host their own Shopping Cart, so in Sueetie Version 4.0 we released a shopping cart to work with payment service providers like Authorize.Net. More on Authorize.Net can be found on Using Authorize.Net as a Payment Service Provider.
Here's a screenshot of a Shopping Cart in use.
What you'll love about the Shopping Cart is that its UI logic is on the client-side, which means everything is fast and changes are dynamically performed on the client. Here's an example of the integration of jQuery and the shopping cart where a client-side popup confirmation box appears to confirm that the customer is removing an item from his or her shopping cart.
The Shopping Cart displays a message you can configure to indicate that the shopping cart is empty. That is shown below. Customers must be logged-in to enter items in their shopping cart. The Shopping Cart displays a different message you configure for anonymous users.
From Shopping Cart To Checkout
From the Shopping Cart the customer heads to the Checkout Page. The Checkout Page is determined by the current Payment Service Provider. Here is the Checkout Page when using the Authorize.Net SIM Payment Option. You'll notice that the message content is a Sueetie Content Part so you can enter a custom message for your customers. The "Enter Payment Information" link is automatically generated based on the Sueetie current Payment Option settings.
Universal Shopping Cart Link
The Sueetie Marketplace Shopping Cart has its own universal link which is present throughout the community across all applications. It displays only when the current Sueetie Payment Option uses an onsite shopping cart option. The link would not appear when configured for PayPal Standard Payments, for instance. You will also notice that the link contains the number of items currently in the cart.
