Is there a way for customers to share carts?

[DrByte]

I'm sure they didn't mean to share their login session, which is what the zenid comment would have implied.

Instead ...

Dell Computers has (or at one time had) a feature where you can build up your cart, save it, and then get a link to share with others to look at what you're thinking of buying. I presume one could also use that to create one's own cart to buy the same thing. It's a handy way to help people shop ... ie: the person who knows what to buy (the tech person) can build a cart, then give that saved cart's bookmark/link/id/whatever to the actual buyer (gramma), and let them make the purchase directly.

I'm pretty sure it's this concept that brillarmory was asking about.

Or maybe it's just the desire to save multiple separate "named baskets", just for the customer to be able to consider multiple different future purchases.

And the answer, at the present time, is that that's not a built-in feature right now.
In addition to the wishlist idea, I think there's an addon named "Saved Cart", and then there's swguy's Save For Later. I don't think either of those give exactly the functionality I described, but may be worth looking at.

[RodG]

I'm sure they didn't mean to share their login session, which is what the zenid comment would have implied.

Indeed.

Instead ...

Dell Computers has (or at one time had) a feature where you can build up your cart, save it, and then get a link to share with others to look at what you're thinking of buying. I presume one could also use that to create one's own cart to buy the same thing. It's a handy way to help people shop ... ie: the person who knows what to buy (the tech person) can build a cart, then give that saved cart's bookmark/link/id/whatever to the actual buyer (gramma), and let them make the purchase directly.

I'm pretty sure it's this concept that brillarmory was asking about.

OK, that does kinda make sense. As tech person it's not the kind of thing I'd want to do though, I'd rather make the purchase myself, add a little bit of markup and then bill the actual buyer.

Or maybe it's just the desire to save multiple separate "named baskets", just for the customer to be able to consider multiple different future purchases.

This is exactly what the wish list does though. Or perhaps I'm still missing some small point?

And the answer, at the present time, is that that's not a built-in feature right now.

In my personal opinion, I seriously doubt that enough people would make use of a feature like this to even consider making it a 'built in' feature. It is far more suited as being an add-on.

In addition to the wishlist idea, I think there's an addon named "Saved Cart", and then there's swguy's Save For Later. I don't think either of those give exactly the functionality I described, but may be worth looking at.

I had considered those, but as far as I'm aware neither of these allow the saved data to be shared, but the wish lists can be, IOW, although not *exactly* what the OP is asking for, the wishlist does have all the functionality needed. In fact I reckon it would take very little effort to modify this module so that it does work as a save/share cart function rather than save/share wishlist function. It's really little more than a matter of terminology rather than functionality.

At least that's the way I'm currently seeing things.

Cheers
RodG