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E-commerce vocabulary · Cart and Checkout

Checkout

Meaning in e-commerce, with examples

/ˈtʃekaʊt/nounCore term

In e-commerce, checkout means: The final steps of buying online, where the customer enters an address, chooses delivery and payment, and places the order.

In Turkish: ödeme adımı, ödeme sayfası, satın alma adımı

How it is used

Central in conversations about sales and user experience. Customers go to checkout or proceed to checkout; teams simplify, test and track the checkout and talk about checkout steps, checkout errors and checkout conversion.

Example sentences

  1. We cut the checkout from four pages to one, and completed orders went up.

  2. Many customers leave at checkout when they see the shipping cost.

Common collocations

  • proceed to checkout
  • checkout page
  • checkout process
  • one-page checkout
  • at checkout
  • 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.
  • guest checkoutA way of completing a purchase without creating an account or logging in; the customer only gives the details needed for the order.
  • payment methodA way a customer can pay for an order, such as a credit or debit card, bank transfer, digital wallet or cash on delivery.
  • cart abandonmentThe situation in which a shopper adds products to the cart but leaves the site without completing the purchase.
  • one-click checkoutA fast way to buy in which the customer's saved address and payment details are used, so the order can be placed with a single click or tap.

This word in other fields

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