Archive for March, 2010

Zen Cart: Add Items to Cart (using Ajax, no page refresh)

Posted by alexbranning in Portfolio on March 17th, 2010

One of my clients came to me with an idea that would enhance the usability of her store: she wanted her customers to be able to add items to the shopping cart with no page refresh, but it had to be ridiculously easy to use.

I had to make quite a few enhancements to the user experience; including:

  1. Add to Cart button no longer created a page refresh
  2. Add to Cart button triggered a JavaScript alert letting them know their item was added to the shopping cart
  3. The header bar text (”My Cart: # Items”) had to be modified to show the overall number of items, and not the number of individual products within the shopping cart. For example, if the customer purchased two widgets and three doodles it had to display “My Cart: 5 items” instead of Zen Cart’s standard functionality that would have displayed “My Cart: 2 items”

The client has a trade-only web site so this functionality isn’t available to on the public-facing web site. Please email me and let me know if you would like to get my username and password for the demo store so you can see the functionality in action!

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Zen Cart: Edit Items in Shopping Cart (including attributes)

Posted by alexbranning in Portfolio on March 17th, 2010

One of my clients came to me with a dilemma many Zen Cart users face: they wanted their customers to be able to modify items with attributes within the shopping cart and not force the buyer to delete the item and add it to their cart again.

I was able to make this happen! You can see it working on http://www.namelynewborns.com/.

Here’s how it works:

  1. Buyer adds item to cart
  2. Buyer clicks “edit” to edit the desired attributes
  3. Buyer clicks “save” to submit changes to item
  4. Cart refreshes showing new attributes for item

Please email me and let me know if you would like me to install this on your Zen Cart!

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