With the eCommerce frontend API, you can interact with the native cart and checkout components on a site.
With the eCommerce frontend API, you can:
- Refresh a cart to display its latest state.
- Listen to changes in the native cart components.
- Open the side cart panel.
- Navigate to the Cart Page.
- Navigate to the Checkout Page.
To use the eCommerce frontend API, import wixEcomFrontend
from the wix-ecom-frontend
module:
It's important to note the following before starting to code:
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A site needs to add eCommerce functionality.
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A site must upgrade to a premium business plan in order to accept payments.
- Cart: Holds information about a potential transaction, including details about selected items, prices, and discounts, as well as the potential buyer.
- Side cart: A preview of the cart page, which opens as a panel on the side of a page.
- Cart page: A page where a buyer can view and manage the items in their cart.
- Checkout page: A page where a buyer finalizes a purchase. Each checkout holds information about the items to be purchased, price and tax summaries, shipping and billing information, any applied discounts, and more.