How to Configure Persistent Cart in Magento 2

In the last blogs, we’ve provided you a general view of Persistent Cart and the way it works in stores using Magento 2 platform. Accordingly, this article will give you information about how to configure persistent cart through the backend. During the setup process, admins can choose to activate the persistent cart or not, set up the time due for the sessions and other options for the Persistent Cart.

To set up for the Persistent Cart in Magento 2, do the following:

  1. Sign in with your admin account. On the Admin Sidebar, click Stores.
  2. Next, select Configuration under Settings.
  3. On the left panel, expand the row named Customers. Choose Persistent Shopping Cart after that.
  4. If the Enable Persistence box is set to “No”, there will be only one section on the working space. In that case, you need to change the box to “Yes” to enable persistent cart and go on further setting options. If the Enable Persistence box is set to “Yes” already, just do the next step as below.

a. Persistence Lifetime (seconds): The lifetime of the persistent cookie. You can enter any number that fit your preference (remember that the unit is “second”). The maximum time allowed for the cookie is 31,536,000 seconds which is equal to one year. This number is also set as the default number of the field.

b. Enable “Remember Me”: There are two options here:

  • Yes: Allow the “Remember me” checkbox to be available on the log-in page so that your customers’ information is saved for the next visit.
  • No: The “Remember me” checkbox is not displayed on the log-in page. Customers have to fill in their information every time they shopping in your store.

c. Remember Me Default Value: Set this to “Yes” to preselect the “Remember me” checkbox.

d. Clear Persistence on Log Out: This box gives options to end/ or continue the persistence on customers’ shopping cart when they log out.

  • If it is set to “Yes”, persistent settings for all entities will be cleared once a registered customer logs out. The entities are: Shopping Cart, Wish List, Recently Ordered Items, Currently Compared Products, Comparison History, Recently Viewed Products, and Customer Group association.
  • In contrast, all the mentioned entities will be retained if the box is set to “No”.

e. Persist Shopping Cart: You can choose one of the following:

  • “Yes”: When a customer logs out, the session cookie expires but , the persistent cookie is still in use. When that customer logs in, the shopping cart is restored.
  • “No”: Not-registered customers’ shopping cart is not preserved after the session cookie expires.

Persistent Cart

  1. When finishing all the settings, tap Save Config to save the changes.

Those are 5 steps to Configure Persistent Cart in Magento 2 you should know to manage your online store. Now, let’s try the configuration and see what it can do for your customers.

How to Configure Cart Thumbnails in Magento 2

Cart Thumbnails are small images that appear in the cart when customers shopping online. These undersized pictures help to give online buyers an overview of the product they are about to spend money on. If a customer buys a simple product with specific color, then ideally, the Cart Thumbnails should match that product.
thumbnail-images

However, the thumbnails do not always show exactly what the product is (in terms of size, color, or length). In other words, it is impossible to display all the variations of a configurable or grouped product which have multiple options to choose. For these two types, Magento 2 allows admin to select the Cart Thumbnails images from either their “parent” products or from the product variation.

To configure Cart Thumbnails images for Configurable and Grouped products in the current store view, do the following:

  1. Firstly, sign in with your admin account. On the Admin sidebar, select Stores.
  2. Choose Configuration under Settings.
  3. Expand Sale on the left panel, then click Checkout.
  4. Click the drop-down icon in the Shopping Cart section. Now you can do the settings:
  • Grouped Product Image: Set it to “Parent Product Thumbnail” if you want the thumbnail image for grouped products to be selected from parent product. Set it to “Product Thumbnail Itself” otherwise.
  • Configurable Product Image: Select the “Parent Product Thumbnail” option if you want the thumbnail image for configurable products to be selected from parent product. Otherwise, select the “Product Thumbnail Itself” option.Configure Cart Thumbnails
  1. When you finish the settings, tap Save Config (on the upper-right corner of your working screen) to save changes.

You may need to refresh the caches by clicking the Cache Management link when the system note appears.system-note Cart Thumbnails

Now, go to your store’s backend and see what you can do with thumbnail images for your products to improve your customer’s shopping experience.

We have presented Cart Thumbnails in Magento 2. We hope that this article can show you useful information to select the appropriate extension for your online shop. Don’t forget to Like, Share, and Subscribe to Magestandard for more informative Magento extension review articles.

 

How to Manage Your Customers’ Shopping Cart through Cart Configuration in Magento 2?

Having customers to place orders on online products is always a huge success for any e-commerce businessman. But managing those worthy  orders requires a lot of efforts. Admin of online stores need to be professional in Cart Configuration so as to handle the job effectively. If you barely know about Cart Configuration and Cart Link, this article would be a cure for you.

Cart Configuration

Cart Configuration provides you many tools to efficaciously manage your shopping cart. It includes seven instruments, which are:

  • Card Link
  • Cart Sidebar
  • Redirect to Cart
  • Quote Lifetime
  • Minimum Order Amount
  • Reorder
  • Cart Thumbnails

You can find all of these tools in the backend of Magento platform, using an admin account: Stores -> Configuration -> Sales. Minimum Order Amount and Reorder options can be easily found by choosing Sales on the dropdown list. The other fives stay in Checkout option.

Cart Link

In frontend of Magento platform, Cart Link lies on the upper-right of the online store, as you can see in the picture below. It indicates the number of items/products a customer has ordered. If the Shopping Cart Sidebar is in “enable” status(this is set by the store admin), customers can have more detail information about their shopping activities by click on the cart icon. There, they can see all the items being purchased, cart subtotal price, and others.

Cart Link in Frontend Cart Configuration
Cart Link in Frontend

In the backend gate, admin can configure the cart link by the following five steps:

Step1: Choose backend gate, sign in with your admin account.

Step 2: Choose STORES, then under Settings click Configuration.

Step 3: On the navigation column on the left, expand Sales section.

Step 4: Pick up Check out choice

Open-Cart-Link

Step 5: Choose one of three options in My Cart Link sidebar:

  • Use system value
  • Display number of items in cart
  • Display items quantities

In order to select the last two ones, you need to check off the checkbox for Use system value option first.

My-Cart-Link

Click Save Configuration to confirm changes you have made.

Now you can easily manage your customers’ shopping Cart Configuration with the knowledge you’ve just study. For the Magento developers, it’s our pleasure to receive your comment and recommendation on our FAQ extension list. If you want to add or erase any item in this FAQ list, feel free to contact us. Don’t forget to Like, Share, and Subscribe to Magestandard for more informative  extension review articles.