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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Maybe this could be implemented by saving it to a wish list
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Disciple of Christ (doc) said:
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.
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Rosie Perera said:
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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Rosie Perera said:
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]
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Rosie Perera said:
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
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This is a great idea. Thanks for pushing this Rosie.
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[Y] Great idea...wish I'd thought of it. [H]
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Donnie Hale said:
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]
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Keep an eye out.
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Donnie Hale said:
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.
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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
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Donnie Hale said:
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.
Is my Logos shopping cart something that resides only in my browser? Just wondering. . . a few days ago I added some items to my shopping cart but never actually placed the order. The items are still in my cart. Today I received a call and email from a Logos rep. asking if I wanted to complete the purchase.
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Beloved said:
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.
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Rosie Perera said:
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.
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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.
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Todd Frusti said:
Is my Logos shopping cart something that resides only in my browser? Just wondering. . . a few days ago I added some items to my shopping cart but never actually placed the order. The items are still in my cart.
For all practical purposes, yes. I haven't looked at the content of the browser cookie(s) that Logos uses to track what you've placed in your cart. It could be that the actual cart contents are in the cookies; or it could be that the cookie contains an identifier that lets Logos look up your cart contents in its servers. In either case, only one browser instance has that cookie value and thus only that one browser instance has that cart content.
I regularly access the Logos marketing web site from 3 different browser instances (Firefox on work laptop, Firefox on home PC, Safari on my iPad). The Logos shopping cart in each of those browser instances has different contents.
Donnie
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Donnie Hale said:
It could be that the actual cart contents are in the cookies; or it could be that the cookie contains an identifier that lets Logos look up your cart contents in its servers.
That would make sense. Thanks for the insight.
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Donnie Hale said:Todd Frusti said:
Is my Logos shopping cart something that resides only in my browser? Just wondering. . . a few days ago I added some items to my shopping cart but never actually placed the order. The items are still in my cart.
For all practical purposes, yes. I haven't looked at the content of the browser cookie(s) that Logos uses to track what you've placed in your cart. It could be that the actual cart contents are in the cookies; or it could be that the cookie contains an identifier that lets Logos look up your cart contents in its servers.
Logos can tell when you have stuff in your cart. I once filled up my cart with things I was considering buying someday, just to see the total cost, and then forgot and left them there. A couple of days later I got a call or email from a Logos Sales rep asking if he could help me with my purchase. He'd noticed I had a large number of items in my cart and was eager to make a sale. Unfortunately I had to disappoint him.
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Rosie Perera said:
A couple of days later I got a call or email from a Logos Sales rep asking if he could help me with my purchase. He'd noticed I had a large number of items in my cart and was eager to make a sale.
The first time that happened was a shock, and not a pleasant one. Logos now has instructions in my profile to never call me about stuff I've placed in my cart.
Donnie
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Coming soon!
We'll be rolling out an updated checkout shortly, and it already includes a "Save for later" feature.
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Glenn Airoldi said:
Coming soon!
We'll be rolling out an updated checkout shortly, and it already includes a "Save for later" feature.
Great news! Thanks.
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Glenn Airoldi said:
Coming soon!
We'll be rolling out an updated checkout shortly, and it already includes a "Save for later" feature.
Yay, exciting! And what a rare treat to be told ahead of time that something new is coming. [:)] I hope it has gotten plenty of in-house testing so we don't find it to be buggy.
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Rosie Perera said:
I hope it has gotten plenty of in-house testing so we don't find it to be buggy.
We could call it the Amish checkout.
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Glenn Airoldi said:
Coming soon!
We'll be rolling out an updated checkout shortly, and it already includes a "Save for later" feature.
How short is "shortly"? I need to use this feature now. Will we see it before MM is over?
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Hi All,
Sorry, no dates to share. It will not happen before March Madness is over.
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