Introduction

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:

Before you begin

It's important to note the following before starting to code:

• A site needs to add eCommerce functionality.

• A site must upgrade to a premium business plan in order to accept payments.

Terminology

• 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.