Mini Cart update in e-Frame without page reloading
 

Hello,
I think many of us will agree with that today (I'm on ver 3.5.9) if a customer has to load 4/5 different products on his cart, update quantities and then checkout, it may take as much as 10 minutes and and 20 page refreshes on a dial up connection. This, I think, it's the nб╟ one reason for customers leaving cart sessions.

I had XC develop a Compatibility mod that allows user to browse a product and ALL its compatibles and load an entire list to cart in one click (in my case it's supplies for one specific printer, if you want to take a look this is the idea: http://www.superwarehouse.com/Minolta_Magicolor_5430_DL/5430DL/p/435481).

Now, one cool feature I'd like to implement is placing the minicart in an e-Frame (I think that's what they call it). An e-Frame would be a part of a page that reloads WITHOUT reloading of the whole page.

Check out the "Quick Printer Supplies Finder" here ( http://www.superwarehouse.com/ ) to see what I mean, the e-frame reloads but the whole page remains there.
In our case the customer would "add to cart" or "add list to cart" from products.tpl and the mini cart would update WITHOUT HIM LEAVING THE PAGE. Once he's done adding (much, much faster) he would proceed to checkout.

XC says doing it with Jscript is not possible as "..To add product to the cart, X-Cart need to run a php script. It requires reloading of the page."

I think the conversion ratio would go up quite a bit if this could be done.

Can anyone tell me how to accomplish that? Any comments would be apprechiated.

Thanks

matt

Is this a coldfusion cart you developed in house or something you bought?
link?

I do like the idea, as I have used Boomer's BMY mod, to search for auto products, but it requires a full page load as well.

The cart is not yet developed, it-s just an idea.
As for the Compatibility Mod, here is a temp link (still not completely ok):

http://www.dynamonline.com/xcart/customer/product.php?productid=16145&cat=263&page=1.

I think Storefront (www.storefront.net) has a nice side mini cart, and Nexternal Solution's is even a nice choice, one of them features in-line minicart edit of quantities and coupon recognition.

However I still think the e-frame concept is doable. Seen it in many other web pages on the net.

Still looking.