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Usability suggestions

Sunday, October 28, 2007 – 5:21 am

An excellent list of 21 Cart Usability Best Practices from eCommerce Opimization.

Number ten is an interesting one:

10. Make sure shoppers can easily access their cart contents and that it can easily be modified or adjusted.

A lot of carts (and Zen Cart in particular) don’t have a notion of “editing” an item in the cart; to modify an item in the cart, you need to add a new item to the cart and delete the old one. From a software development perspective I understand why they made this decision (clue: it’s easier), but I’ve always found it aggravating.

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  2. Hi Scott,

    Thanks for mentioning our post on eCommerce and shopping cart usability. I really appreciate the support, kind words and the link love!

    The tip you mentioned is aso one of my favorite. You are right, it is rare to see a good cart editing feature in out-of-the-box platforms, especially OS. I think providers will get better at including most of these things within their products as time goes. Haven’t found an out-of-the-box solution that offers everything mentioned, that would be nice!

    Thanks again, see you around.

    eCopt

    By eCopt on Oct 28, 2007

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