Multiple Products at one time?

Ricky:

This use to be a frequently asked for feature back in the beginning of the shopping cart business but we hardly ever get this request any more. It was discovered quite awhile ago that this sort of shopping cart interface is very confusing for the average shopper. You will see very few, less than 5% of all stores that use this product presentation anymore, these are just a few of the problems with it.

1. When the add to cart button is not next to where the item is, the average shopper is confused and mislead as to how to order. They may believe that by simple putting a qty in the box or checking the box, they have placed the order in the cart when they go to another page. Obviously, this is not how web pages work. They conclude the cart is broken.

2. The single Add-to-Cart button can be difficult if not nearly impossible to find. I believe you can go to many shopping cart sites and find the "View cart" button alone is difficult to find let alone the add-to-cart button. Imagine after the items are checked having to go look for the tiny Add-to-Cart button located at the very bottom of a page loaded with 1000 products and the button is a small 20x20 pixel button in the lower right hand corner. If you give users the design flexibility to accomplish this then at the very least you have merchants calling up shopping cart vendors with customer complaints that they cannot find a way to add items to the cart.

3. Constrains the product design flexibility. To accomplish this task, requires that all products be placed into a single form with a sequential form variable number. This process makes modifing the design of the page "after-the-fact" nearly impossible because the products almost certainly must be presented in a sequential fashion. Move products around and the page is broken.

So what we are saying is that most merchants and shopping cart vendors have found this interface to be confusing, expensive to support, difficult to explain to end-customers and not practicable. Its not a new feature....it use to be quite popular with about 20-25% of all shopping carts. Its more of a dinosaur way to do things with much less 10% using this approach nowadays. We will continue to listen to our customers via Feature requests placed on the userroom at http://userroom.salescart.com. If there is a grand-swell of demand, then we will consider implementing it. Otherwise, the quickest way is to request an individual programming scope on this. The programming is typically better suited to be "hardwired" to the pecularities of the individual shop anyways.

Edited by mike

I'm sure it will be added. However, there is no ETA on this feature.

No.