Abandoned Cart

Ability to review all the orders that were abandoned after the product was placed on the online shopping cart.  Potential customers have accessed the commerce site, added items to cart, and have not finished the checkout process.  This process reports the time, date, and contents of an abandoned cart and includes convenient tools to contact the customer to prompt a recovered cart.   

Complete the following steps to view and recover abandoned cart transactions for the site:

1. Log into the site administration page.  Review Site Administration Overview for login instructions.
   

2. Click on the Store link to expand shopping cart options

3. Select Abandoned Cart to open the list of abandoned carts
   

4. Select the Filter by Progress option based on the progress of the check out.  The number of records listed will decrease when an option later in the checkout progress are selected.  The Recovered option identifies abandoned carts that were recovered as a result of an email contact to the customer.

5. Select the Date Selection query option based on the abandoned date.  A cart is considered abandoned when the number of days exceeds the Abandoned_Cart_Limit setting found in the Config.XML file.  Review Site Administration > Website Settings for details on changing configuration settings.  Click Apply Filters to refresh list.

6. The Invoice Number hyperlink will display the coresponding invoice if the invoice was created.   Note that invoices do not exist until the Checked out step is completed.

7. Click on the Send Email link to open an email to send to the user.  This reminder allows the web shopper to recover the card content.
   

8. An order is removed from the Abandoned Carts list if it is recovered by the web shopper from the website.   The Progress setting will change to Recovered if the customer responds to the communication and completes the check out process.