README

Mageplaza Share Cart Extension helps customers in sharing their shopping cart with friends and family as well. This is a supportive method to promote store’s conversion rate via the existing users, and this can significantly contribute to the revenue of the store.

Share shopping cart quickly
Shortly review purchasing cart
Download the PDF file with full information

IMPORTANT NOTE: This version of Mageplaza Share Cart extension on Github is free as a contribution to the Magento community from Mageplaza. This package does not include the technical support. Should you need technical support for this extension, you will have to buy a license from Mageplaza. Click here to buy.

1. Documentation

2. FAQs

Q: I got an error: Mageplaza_Core has been already defined

A: Read solution here

Q: How can customers use share button?

A: Customers only need to click on the button and paste the automated URL to anywhere they want to share.

Q: Where will the Share button appear on the website?

A: Share button can be seen on Minicart and Shopping Cart page.

Q: What if I want to inform customers that the price possibly will change later?

A: You can leave a message on Warning Message box (from the admin backend).

Q: Can I add the time when the PDF file is downloaded?

A: Absolutely yes. In the backend, you can enable the adding timestamp suffix.

Q: How the PDF button and Text button differ from each other?

A: Text button only displays chosen items while PDF button offers more information about the store. Also, Text button will show a pop-up, meanwhile the PDF button is for file downloading.

3. How to install Share Cart extension for Magento 2

Install via composer (recommend)

Run the following command in Magento 2 root folder:

With Marketing Automation (recommend):

composer require mageplaza/module-share-cart
php bin/magento setup:upgrade
php bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy

Without Marketing Automation:

composer require mageplaza/module-share-cart
php bin/magento setup:upgrade
php bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy

4. Highlight Features

Quick share by copy-and-paste

Share Cart Extension allows the store owners to add an extra button which is Share Cart while a customer is processing their purchasing.

The button can be displayed in the Minicart section and Shopping Cart Page. By clicking this button, the customer can copy their shopping cart’ s URL and paste to a destination just in the blink of an eye. When the URL recipient clicks on the shared URL, their current shopping cart will be automatically added with the same items.

A brief summary with Text button

For the cart which contains a large number of items, Share Cart module allows the customers to view a shot summary easily with Text - another extra button.

When the customer hit the Text button on their Shopping Cart Page, a pop-up text can be seen, it appears as a purchase summarizing box. This little simple button supports customers in taking a clear overview of chosen items with necessary information such as items’ name, price, quantity and the cart total.

Quick Shopping cart PDF file publishing

PDF button is another extra button with the function to download. When the customer hits this button, a PDF file will be downloaded and stored automatically in the user's current device. In comparison to the Text button with quick view function, PDF's function allows the customer to get detail information such as:

Information of store: Company Name, Address, Email, Phone, VAT Information, Registered Number, and Warning Message
Date of the purchase
Purchase summary: Quantity, Price, Total, Stock ID, Descriptio

5. More features

Update function

Update button is for updating the shopping cart with the latest changes from the original cart.

Warning message offering

Admin is able to add a message to the PDF file, as a notice to customers (for instance, informing about the validation of the file downloaded).

Mobile responsive ability

The module is properly responsive with both mobile and desktop devices.

6. Full Magento 2 Share Cart Features

For store owners

Enable/ Disable the module
Enable/disable the extension
Be able to set the PDF file name
Add the timestamp suffix which shows the PDF file downloaded time
Add information of the store including Company name, Address, Phone, Email, VAT Number, Registered Number
Display a warning message to notify customers in the PDF file

For customers

Quickly and easily share the shopping cart
Briefly view the shared shopping cart
Download and store the PDF with adequate information

7. How to configure Share Cart in Magento 2

7.1 Configuration

Access to your Magento 2 Admin Panel, navigate to Store tab > Open Settings > Configuration
Click Mageplaza Extensions > Share Cart > Configuration, go to General Configuration section.

7.1.1. General

Enable: Choose Yes to enable the Module. If the module is turned on, all the features work well. Otherwise, all the options in admin panel and the module will not show.
Enable: Select Yes to enable the extension
File Name: Insert name for PDF file. The PDF file will display the customer’s order information
Add Timestamp suffix: Click Yes option to display the current time to upload PDF document

7.1.2. Business Information

Company Name: Insert your company name in this field
Address: Fill the company’s location
VAT Number: Provide information about Value Added Taxes number
Registered Number: Insert your company registered number
Phone: Insert phone number
Email: Another needed contact detail is the email address
Warning Message: This field is for the special content you want to notice in the PDF orders. For instance: Prices are correct at the time of generation, some possibly have been changed since.

7.2 Frontend

After activating the module, customers can use Share Cart button to deliver the URL to people which they want to share the cart. After sharing, there will be already-added items in the cart of the URL recipient.

Share Cart button displays in the Minicart section when adding items to cart.

Display play Share Cart button on Shopping Cart page, customers can click this button to share the cart URL.

Customers can click Update Shopping Cart to re-update information and changes in the original cart.
Click Text button to see detail information about products and price.