Create a "Save for Later" section of Shopping Cart, like on Amazon.com

Please implement something like what Amazon.com does with a sub-area of the shopping cart, visible on the Shopping Cart page, called "Saved for Later"; you can easily move items back and forth between the Shopping Cart and Saved for Later bin. Note that this area is distinct from your "Wish List" and you can move items out of it to the wish list. And of course you can delete items from any of these receptacles.

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Simon’s Brother

Maybe this could be implemented by saving it to a wish list

Rosie Perera

Maybe this could be implemented by saving it to a wish list

Yes, that would be fine, as long as there are bi-directional buttons to move items back and forth between the wish list and the shopping cart. Since we can have multiple wish lists, that could get complicated. You'd need a UI to let the user select which wish list they wanting to defer a shopping cart item to. When really all there needs to be is one "Save for Later" wish list. I suppose it could be implemented as a wish list, but one of the wish lists would have that special function. The way Amazon does it is so elegant, but I'm certainly in favor of not copying them if Logos can improve upon the design somehow.

fgh

Please implement something like what Amazon.com does with a sub-area of the shopping cart, visible on the Shopping Cart page, called "Saved for Later"; you can easily move items back and forth between the Shopping Cart and Saved for Later bin. Note that this area is distinct from your "Wish List" and you can move items out of it to the wish list. And of course you can delete items from any of these receptacles.

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Graham Criddle

Please implement something like what Amazon.com does with a sub-area of the shopping cart, visible on the Shopping Cart page, called "Saved for Later"; you can easily move items back and forth between the Shopping Cart and Saved for Later bin. Note that this area is distinct from your "Wish List" and you can move items out of it to the wish list. And of course you can delete items from any of these receptacles.

This would be very helpful [Y]

Randy W. Sims

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Donnie Hale

Please implement something like what Amazon.com does with a sub-area of the shopping cart, visible on the Shopping Cart page, called "Saved for Later"; you can easily move items back and forth between the Shopping Cart and Saved for Later bin.

To do this properly (IMO), they'd need to do something else that Amazon does and tie your shopping cart to your account, not just to a particular browser instance. At present, every browser instance with which I access Logos.com has its own shopping cart. If I put something in my cart on my work laptop, it's not in my cart when I get home. If I clear my cookies in a browser instance, the shopping cart for that browser instance is lost.

Presumably you'd want "Saved for later" to show up anytime you were viewing a cart, irrespective of device / browser instance, to remind you of what you've been considering. This would be decidedly unhelpful if it only showed up on the browser instance where you moved something to "Saved for later" (again, IMO).

Donnie

Bruce Dunning

This is a great idea. Thanks for pushing this Rosie.

David Paul

[Y] Great idea...wish I'd thought of it. [H]

Rosie Perera

To do this properly (IMO), they'd need to do something else that Amazon does and tie your shopping cart to your account, not just to a particular browser instance.

Good point! [Y]

Phil Gons (Logos)

Keep an eye out.

Rosie Perera

Keep an eye out.

Yay!

Simon’s Brother

To do this properly (IMO), they'd need to do something else that Amazon does and tie your shopping cart to your account, not just to a particular browser instance.

...which is why I was thinking it could be implemented using a wish list.

fgh

Keep an eye out.

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Beloved Amodeo

Rosie,

I agree this is an implementable improvement over my original idea. The programmers objection to this idea was that there existed no example of this concept with any other company. Now with your refinement this objection no longer holds any further traction.

This feature will allow us to populate our carts and then purchase as funds come available without having to delete and then repopulate our carts which risks perhaps forgetting what it was we wanted to purchase in the first instance. This is particularly useful for events such as "March Madness."

Thank you for reviving interest in this idea and showing the way to something that folks can both understand and support.

-Beloved

Andy

Keep an eye out.

Great news!

Bruce Dunning

Keep an eye out.

Yay!

Sometimes you have a twisted sense of humour! [:)]

Rosie Perera

This feature will allow us to populate our carts and then purchase as funds come available without having to delete and then repopulate our carts which risks perhaps forgetting what it was we wanted to purchase in the first instance. This is particularly useful for events such as "March Madness."

I was not aware you could populate your cart during a special sale like March Madness and then wait until the sale was over to finish processing the transaction. Are you sure? Would the coupon codes still be honored after the end of the sale? I've never tried it, and wouldn't want to risk it. Also there's the potential risk that your computer might crash during that time, and the cookies might be lost, and next time you opened the cart it might be empty. That has happened to me on other websites before.

Beloved Amodeo

I was not aware you could populate your cart during a special sale like March Madness and then wait until the sale was over to finish processing the transaction. Are you sure?

Rosie,

Please excuse me if my comment has caused confusion. What I meant to convey is that your save till later feature could be used to save the transaction information and allow for an initial tabulation of all your intended purchases (all of course within the time frame of the sale) and followed by a culling out of some you may want to save for a later date (again all within the prescribed limits of the sale).

This situation was what led me to propose the multiple carts idea in the first place. I had selected some forty say resources and wanted to purchase them in a phased approach. I had populated my cart with all forty but only wanted to purchase 20 on a certain date and didn't want to have to cancel the balance of the 20 which I intended to buy before the end of the sale.

This led to a duplication of effort which required me to cancel then hand document my intended future purchases followed by repopulating a new cart when I judged that I should have been able to account for my purchases all at one moment in time and even add to the later purchase. This is what I for see the save till later feature will allow for once developed. I hope this clarifies my previous statement.

Rosie Perera

Ah yes, I see now. I had thought you were hoping to defer purchases to a later date when cash flow was easier but still get the coupon discount because you'd put them in your cart before the end of the sale. I think I saw someone else mention they were hoping to do this. But maybe I was just misunderstanding.

As someone else has pointed out somewhere (I'm not going to look for it now), Logos uses cookies to remember what's in your cart, so if you load up your cart and then go to a different computer, your cart will be empty. Also I've noticed that if you open logos.com in a different browser your cart will be empty. One could find that annoying (the person who reported this was thinking it was a problem, and that cart contents should be linked to a user's account rather than browser session). But one could also use this to one's advantage (in the meantime while a "save for later" feature does not exist). It would still be a bit of manual work, but you could click on each of the titles you intended to "save for later" in your cart, copy the URL of the product description page, then switch to your different browser window and paste it in and add it to your cart there. Then delete the item in your first browser. Nowadays most people have a couple of browsers installed (at least on Windows) from among IE, Firefox, and Chrome. Anyway, it's pretty painless to install a second because they're all free.