Shopping Lists

Customers can save past orders as a shopping list which can be used for future purchases. This feature is convenient for customers that frequently order the same items. A monthly vitamin and nutritional supplement order and a company that purchases the same desk, chair, lamp, etc for each new employee are two examples.

Shopping lists are created from orders that the customer has previously placed in the store. A form at the bottom of every order detail page in the order history section of customer account area can be used to assign a unique name to the order. A shopping list entry with the chosen name is created and can be accessed from the shopping list area of customer administration.

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When a customer views their shopping list they have the option to remove items from the list, to modify quantities of items in the list, and to add the list to their cart. Shopping lists enforce the current state of the product catalog. For example, if an item in the list is out of stock, not currently offered, or no longer offered then the item will not be added to the cart. If an item is configurable and the attributes for the item in the list do not match the attributes currently offered for the item, then the item will not be added to the cart. Response messages notify the customer which shopping list items were successfully added to the cart, which items were not and why, and whether or not the entire shopping list was successfully added to the cart.

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