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Basket

Ibexa Commerce provides a flexible basket system. A basket is identified by:

  • session ID (if the user is not logged in)
  • user ID (if the user is logged in)

Doctrine is used to store the basket in the database.

The basket can be of one of the following types:

  • basket
  • quickOrder
  • storedBasket, stored with a user-set name
  • wishList
  • comparison

A standard basket (type basket) can be in different states during the checkout process. After the order is sent, the basket is assigned the state ordered.

Basket structure

The basket enables storing project-specific information in several places:

  • Basket header
  • Basket lines
  • Basket parties

Basket header

Additional fields can be placed in the basket header (dataMap Field).

These can be simple fields or complex data as well.

Basket lines

Basket lines contain information such as:

Basket parties

Basket parties include:

  • BuyerParty - address of the customer (usually this address is the same as the InvoiceParty)
  • InvoiceParty - address for the invoice from the checkout or customer profile
  • DeliveryParty - delivery address given by the customer

Baskets in multishop

You can configure a shop_id for each shop. The shop_id is stored in the basket.

Additional costs

Additional costs can be stored in the basket to implement all kinds of additional costs or discounts, such as:

  • shipping costs
  • costs for packaging
  • costs for payment
  • discount for vouchers
  • general discounts for total order

Customer remarks

The customer can provide a general remark for the basket in the checkout.

Handling of discontinued products

See Discontinued products

Performance improvement

The BasketLine stores a serialized version of the product in the basket line. Configuration controls which Fields from the product are stored.

Price calculation

A price engine calculates the prices and provides up-to-date information about stock. The basket contains a flag that controls if a recalculation has to be done (timeout).

Merging of baskets

After the user logs in, Ibexa Commerce merges the products from the existing basket (filled as an anonymous user) and a basket which is already stored for the given user ID.

If an SKU is already present in a basket, a new line is created in the user's basket.

Shared baskets

A basket can be shared if a user logs in from a different browser (default), or it can be bound to the session.

If you do not want the basket to be shared between different sessions, change the following setting to true:

ses_basket.default.basketBySessionOnly: true

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