Question About Shopping Cart Customization

DFresh · Post by **DFresh** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 11:41 am

Hello AbleCommerce Community,

I was wondering if it's possible to change around how the checkout process works. I saw on the Crate and Barrel site when you add something to the cart, a window pops up within the browser showing your cart asking you if you want to continue shopping or check out. If you click close and continue shopping you stay on that page, but if you click checkout now, you're brought to the checkout process. I thought this was unique since you don't have to leave the page that you're on to see the cart (I can see that this is possible if you set up the store to show the cart in the left or right pane, but you lose the options of having related items etc.). Is this possible to have a pop up window with this feature?

Thanks!

Post by **Shopping Cart Admin** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 12:08 pm

Hello,

You can always use the related items and the other control's from the left/right nav in horizontal mode. This would be embedded into the product page instead of the left/right nav, which is how I setup my demo store, like amazon.

[[ConLib:SimilarProducts Caption="Similar Products" Orientation="HORIZONTAL" Columns="3"]]

Caption
Possible value can be any string. Title of the control.
Orientation
Possible values are 'HORIZONTAL' or 'VERTICAL'. Indicates whether the contents will be displayed vertically or horizontally, In case of vertical orientation only one column will be displayed.
Columns
Possible value cab be any integer greater then zero. Indicates the number of columns, for 'VERTICAL' orientation there will always be a single column.

DFresh · Post by **DFresh** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 12:58 pm

Would I need the source code to make a modification such as this?

Post by **Shopping Cart Admin** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 1:11 pm

Hello,

Nope it's all display side stuff, if you're talking about customizing the basket.

DFresh · Post by **DFresh** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 7:01 am

Can the pop-up cart be accomplished? Would it be easier if I posted a screen shot of what I'm talking about?

Thanks

Post by **Shopping Cart Admin** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 9:15 am

Hello,

Yes the pop up cart can be done without the source code.