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E-commerce vocabulary · Cart and Checkout

Shopping cart

Meaning in e-commerce, with examples

nounCore term

In e-commerce, shopping cart means: The 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.

In Turkish: alışveriş sepeti, sepet

How it is used

Usually just called 'the cart'. Customers add items to the cart, remove them or update quantities; teams look at what people leave in the cart. British sites often say 'basket' or 'shopping basket' instead.

Example sentences

  1. The shopping cart shows the delivery fee only after customers enter their address.

  2. Customers can keep items in their shopping cart for 30 days.

Common collocations

  • add to the shopping cart
  • shopping cart page
  • items in the cart
  • update the cart
  • empty cart
  • 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.
  • checkoutThe final steps of buying online, where the customer enters an address, chooses delivery and payment, and places the order.
  • cart abandonmentThe situation in which a shopper adds products to the cart but leaves the site without completing the purchase.
  • wishlistA saved list of products a shopper is interested in but not ready to buy yet, often marked with a heart icon.
  • abandoned cart emailAn automatic email sent to a shopper who left items in the cart without buying, reminding them of the products and inviting them to finish the order.

More terms: Cart and Checkout

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