Persistent Products in Cart

“Persistent Products in Cart”is a new module inVPCART 8.00. It allows your store to save shopping cart items into the database.The cart items will remain populated even if customers have left the site.When they reopen the site at a later time, they will still see the cart items they added last time.

The difference between the existing module compared to previous versions(V7 and below) is that the current VPCART 8.00“Persistent Products in Cart” is database driven, while the past versions do not use database to store cart items.

If your VPCART 8.00 version is Plus and Deluxe, “Persistent Products in Cart” is already installed as a module, by default, in Modules Manager.

If you are using VPCART LITE or VPCART VALUE, you can purchase the “Persistent Products in Cart” module at :
http://www.vpcart.com/virtprog/modules.htm

After you have installed it into your site, this module will be listed in the Modules Manager section automatically :



To setup “Persistent Products in Cart,” click the Edit icon. You can change the settings afterwards according to your preferences.



Below is the explanation of the configurations:

Enable?

Set this to Yes to enable “Persistent Products in Cart”.

Cookie Name

The name of the cart cookies database that is saved into your browser. You can change to any cookie name you want (e.g. vpaspsavedcart)

 

Expired In Day

Enter how many days should the cart cookies database will expire.

 

Maximum Cart Items Stored

Enter the maximum cart items allowed in cart cookies database.