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Wishlist

Meaning in e-commerce, with examples

/ˈwɪʃlɪst/nounCommon term

In e-commerce, wishlist means: A saved list of products a shopper is interested in but not ready to buy yet, often marked with a heart icon.

In Turkish: istek listesi, favoriler

How it is used

Shoppers add items to or save items to their wishlist; stores use wishlist data to send price-drop or back-in-stock alerts. Some sites call it favourites or saved items.

Example sentences

  1. We email customers when an item on their wishlist goes on sale.

  2. The heart icon adds the product to your wishlist.

Common collocations

  • add to wishlist
  • save to wishlist
  • wishlist items
  • wishlist reminder
  • 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.
  • out of stockNot available to buy at the moment because the seller has no units left; the opposite is in stock.
  • 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.

This word in other fields

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