Add to Cart

Controlling add to cart operation in your store

Unless otherwise noted, the products we will discuss on this page will be assumed to be in stock with the Call for Price flag set to No.

The “Add to Cart” button will always appear on the product info page. It may optionally appear on other pages under the following conditions:

If the button is configurable on the page in question, it not been turned off. For example, on the New Products page, the add to cart button may be turned off using the Display Product Buy Now Button switch on the Configuration > New Listing page.
The product has no attributes, or, the product has only single-valued attributes.

If these conditions are not met, the “More Info …” button is displayed instead of “Buy Now” (or “Add to Cart”), and pressing this button will go to the product info page.

Limitations on Add to Cart

Once an add to cart is performed, the following checks are done:

the product quantity minimum, maximum and units are checked. If a violation occurs, the in-cart quantity will be dynamically updated.
the stock tracking configuration 3 is enabled, quantity is not adjusted but checkout will be blocked if stock is insufficient to meet the order requirements.

Still have questions? Use the Search box in the upper right, or try the full list of FAQs. If you can't find it there, head over to the Zen Cart support forum and ask there in the appropriate subforum. In your post, please include your Zen Cart and PHP versions, and a link to your site.

Is there an error or omission on this page? Please post to General Questions on the support forum. Or, if you'd like to open a pull request, just review the guidelines and get started. You can even PR right here.

Last modified January 1, 0001