Shopping Cart
The temporary list where the selected products, quantities and amount lines are collected before an order is placed. The subtotal, the tax line, the shipping charge if applicable and the amount remaining to the shipping threshold if defined are calculated here; when stock for an item in the cart runs low, it is revalidated at the moment of ordering.
The cart is the decision stage of the purchase: when you change a quantity the total is recalculated immediately, and the final amount that will carry over to the payment step becomes clear here. Reading the cart lines before payment prevents most later disputes at the outset.
- Subtotal: the sum of product prices multiplied by their quantities.
- Tax line: shown either as a separate line or embedded in the price, depending on whether prices are displayed tax-inclusive or tax-exclusive.
- Shipping charge: added if the cart total is below the free shipping threshold.
- Quantity limit: the maximum quantity per order can be limited by a store setting.
A product waiting in the cart is not considered reserved; stock is rechecked on the server at the moment the order is created, and the request is rejected if it is insufficient. On products such as crane remote controls or drivers, verify variant selections like supply voltage or number of channels one last time in the cart; correcting the wrong variant requires a return process after delivery.
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