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E-commerce vocabulary · Cart and Checkout

Cart drawer

Meaning in e-commerce, with examples

nounCommon term

In e-commerce, cart drawer means: A panel that slides into view to show cart contents while keeping the shopper on the current store page.

In Turkish: sepet yan paneli

How it is used

Design teams open or close the cart drawer and test whether its controls work on smaller screens.

Example sentences

  1. The cart drawer opens after a shopper adds a candle to the basket.

    The panel gives immediate basket feedback without a separate page load.

  2. Customers cannot reach the checkout button at the bottom of the cart drawer.

    The problem concerns controls inside the overlay rather than the checkout itself.

Common collocations

  • open the cart drawer
  • cart drawer design
  • cart drawer button
  • shopping cartThe part of an online store that keeps the products a customer has chosen until they are ready to pay, showing quantities and the total price.
  • add to cartThe action of putting a product into the online shopping cart, and the name of the button on product pages that does it.

More terms: Cart and Checkout

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