In the shopping cart, each added item has a link to its product page.

Is there a way to change the link to external URL? or at least disable the link?

I'm using remote carting feature so the actual product pages are outside of AmeriCommerce.

Thanks

Paul, we are adding features quickly to remote carting and this one is on the upcoming list of planned items.  For now though, it may be best to remove the link in the custom layout of the cart page, which support can help you do if you are not familiar.  Or leave the link in anticipation of the link feature that can link back to the remote site (that was a lot of 'links'!!!).  This is slated to be around the 2012.4 release of AmeriCommerce.

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Paul, good news, ItemURL has been added as a url and form post parameter for you.  If you supply that, it will set the url for the product to take you back to the source website's product page.

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And this should be in your version of the application.

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Hi Ed, that's really a good news.

Where exactly should I go to enter the URL?

I looked at the product editor but could not find the field...

If you are using remote carting, then this field would be passed in with the remote carting request, either over the URL or via form post, whichever method you are using.  If over url, just add &itemurl=http://www.externalsite.com/producturl  and it will abide by that.  We will need to get the cart link updating with that url which is what is actually being worked on now, but it already stores the url on that cart item and it will begin using it as soon as we update you.

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Sorry to bother you Ed.

So I added the remote carting request over the URL as follows but the link in the shopping cart still points to the AmeriCommerce product url.

Am I missing something?

<a href="http://mystore.americommerce.com/store/addtocart.aspx?itemId_1=25&qty_1=1&itemurl=http://www.www.externalsite.com/producturl"><img src="addtocart.jpg"></a>

No bother at all, what I was trying to mention is that there was still a feature in play that needed to be put on your site.  They have this done now and ready to be hotfixed to your site.  This should take care of the primary need.  More features that flesh this out further are also currently being worked on too.  For now it seems your URL is right.  The only thing that may need to happen is the item variables such as the path may need to be html encoded, however this may work as is, give it a go both ways after the hotfix.

If you can supply your website name, I will have your installation upgraded.

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URL encoded...sorry...not HTML encoded.  I just got hit in the face with a hairy fist up here for that typo!  LOL

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mystore.americommerce.com/store/addtocart.aspx?itemId_1=25&qty_1=1&itemurl=http://www.www.externalsite.com/producturl

in this line, mystore.americommerce.com/store/addtocart.aspx?itemId_1=25&qty_1=1 is the true url, and &itemurl=http://www.www.externalsite.com/producturl is just a syntax, so it's using itemurl as an attributing factor the the first part. If you are trying to put a product url, you can't make it add to the cart and go there at same time, as it's all one process. But if you're trying to add the item url AS an item variable itself, then that variable needs to be defined, just as if it were a quantity.

 also/or it could be that you have  http://www.www.externalsite.com/producturl  instead of http://www.externalsite.com/producturl

Over 15 years and 200,000 order I've never been questioned by a shopper to change the "Continue Shopping" button link if it returns the shopper to the last page they added an item to the cart. This worked like a charm for all owner sites using a common cart furnished by sister site Americart that is a remote "add to cart" form cart only. I plan to use this remote carting function on satellite sales sites to augment main site sales using Americommerce. By default does the continue shopping function take you back to the last added page... if so all is well. If not your forcing customers to begin shopping all over again from page one which will get huge cart abandonment penalities. They know how they got to the last add to cart item and it's only logical to continue shopping from that exact point... This applies to the remote satellite sales sites to as the cart cookie will allow shopping from multiple sites even if they return 7 days later.

 

Try adding a product at www.holdup.com and then continue shopping ... next go to www.suspenders.com and add an item and continue shopping.  Then go to domain www.holdup-suspenders.com and navidate to any product page and add a item. Every site uses the same common cart and without any confusion those items are their for checkout by shopper for 7 days. Continue shopping takes them back to the last "add to cart page" and the image URL in the checkout section shows what the Item # is next to text description. This should be what Americommerce should do by default to make their remote cart function totally acceptable to shoppers.... as a great feature copied from Americart. This is another feature set that the competitors don't have... 

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Ed, I am looking for the same feature. Can this be applied to my cart?

Which part?  The itemurl remote carting/embedded commerce flag should already be on most sites now.

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I'm having trouble finding it. Thanks.