Why not just maintain carts for users with accounts
and maintain them indefinately. Users with out
accounts can have there carts stored in a session and
will become invalid when the session expires.
--- Chris W. Parker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hey there everyone.
I haven't had time much to
Daniel Guerrier mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
on Thursday, December 11, 2003 9:08 AM said:
Why not just maintain carts for users with accounts
and maintain them indefinately. Users with out
accounts can have there carts stored in a session and
will become invalid when the session expires.
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Of course, now you have to deal with putting inventory back on the
shelf when the session expiresand you have no way of knowing when
that would happen unless you're storing *something*.
A good point, if that's the way he wants to do things...
In which case, SC needs to be stored
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I shouldn't think so; it would be a bit of extra work, but not a big
deal. If you did, then I'd have a
Hey there everyone.
I haven't had time much to work on my cart program recently but I was
just thinking about abandoned carts and can't figure something out
completely.
How do you determine if a shopping cart has been abandoned or not?
What I am thinking is that when the customer adds an item
This looks like a business decision.
Your business anaylist could help answer your question.
Chris W. Parker wrote:
Hey there everyone.
I haven't had time much to work on my cart program recently but I was
just thinking about abandoned carts and can't figure something out
completely.
How do
Hello Chris,
Thursday, December 4, 2003, 9:09:57 PM, you wrote:
CWP The problem I see is that a cart could be considered abandoned for 4
CWP days but then become active again because the customer has come back to
CWP it and has added more products to it. In this case I'd say it was never
CWP
Chris W. Parker wrote:
Now what do we do? Does the program automatically delete the carts
after a certain (definable) period of time, i.e. 7 days? OR do we
allow the merchant to manually delete the carts at any point they
want? And how do you determine your abandoned cart rate? That is, do
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I am making an assumption that you are using sessions for your shoppers.
If this is the case then the cart would be abandoned if/when the session
expires. If you are not using sessions then I think 24 hours would be on
the longish side of acceptable.
In
On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 16:22, Eric Wood wrote:
Chris W. Parker wrote:
Now what do we do? Does the program automatically delete the carts
after a certain (definable) period of time, i.e. 7 days? OR do we
allow the merchant to manually delete the carts at any point they
want? And how do you
On Friday, December 5, 2003, at 08:09 AM, Chris W. Parker wrote:
I haven't had time much to work on my cart program recently but I was
just thinking about abandoned carts and can't figure something out
completely.
How do you determine if a shopping cart has been abandoned or not?
What I am
Anas Mughal mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
on Thursday, December 04, 2003 1:23 PM said:
This looks like a business decision.
Your business anaylist could help answer your question.
Yes, and so far they've all given good ideas.
Thanks.
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Of course, this makes problems when you're adding promotional product to
the cart, which should have a seperate price. Add to this that the
customer may have special pricing (think Business to Business). So you
have to have an update mechanism for promotions and the extra price
lists. Do-able,
Jay Blanchard mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
on Thursday, December 04, 2003 1:25 PM said:
In another thread on another list I pointed out to another person
designing a cart that the items in the cart are removed from inventory
while they are in the cart even though no check-out has occured. If
Justin French mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
on Thursday, December 04, 2003 2:20 PM said:
If you owned a grocery store, you'd have to decide how long you'd
leave an abandoned cart in isle 3 -- 5 minutes? a week? This is
entirely a decision up to you and your client.
slaps_forehead/
;)
If
On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 16:24, Jay Blanchard wrote:
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I am making an assumption that you are using sessions for your shoppers.
If this is the case then the cart would be abandoned if/when the session
expires. If you are not using sessions then I think 24
On Friday, December 5, 2003, at 09:35 AM, Chris W. Parker wrote:
Yeah the session files are cleaned up automatically but your
application
doesn't know that. You'd have to specifically tell your application
(via
a cron job??) when the session get cleaned up and that it (the
application) should
Justin French mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
on Thursday, December 04, 2003 2:48 PM said:
Rather than storing the shopping cart in a DB, store the cart in the
session. When the session dies, so does the cart.
When/if they choose to save it, it THEN gets ported into a database.
Aaah...!
Of course, now you have to deal with putting inventory back on the shelf
when the session expiresand you have no way of knowing when that
would happen unless you're storing *something*.
Chris W. Parker wrote:
Justin French mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
on Thursday, December 04, 2003 2:48 PM
why not only reduce the stock once a sale has gone through ???
Cheers,
Jon
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On Friday, December 5, 2003, at 12:09 PM, Justin Patrin wrote:
Of course, now you have to deal with putting inventory back on the
shelf when the session expiresand you have no way of knowing when
that would happen unless you're storing *something*.
A good point, if that's the way he wants
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