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Shopping Cart

The shopping cart shows the products you selected in My Inventory before you continue to order review. Use it to check quantities, product information, prices, and totals before Mathership creates or opens the order review.

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Cart or basket?

In the active My Inventory ordering flow, the frontend uses a cart. You may still see or hear the older term basket in some places, but for the current My Inventory flow, Shopping Cart is the clearest name.

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What the shopping cart is used for

Use the shopping cart when you want to:

• Review products selected for an order
• Check quantities before creating the order review
• Remove products you no longer need
• Check product names and article numbers
• Review packaging information
• Review prices and total where available
• Continue to the order review or order detail page

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Where the cart appears

The shopping cart appears in the My Inventory ordering page. The page has three main areas:

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Open the shopping cart

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What the cart shows

The cart shows the products currently selected for the order. Depending on the product data, each item can show: If prices are missing for one or more products, the cart can still be used, but totals may be incomplete or unavailable.

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Add products to the cart

Products are added from the product table. You can add products from the full catalog or from a selected product list.

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Adjust quantities

You can adjust quantities from the product table and, where available, directly from the cart. The product table and cart stay aligned, so the selected quantity is visible in both places.

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Remove products

To remove a product from the cart:

1. Open the cart
2. Find the product
3. Remove it or reduce the quantity to zero
4. Review the updated cart total

Removing a product from the cart does not delete the product from Mathership. It only removes it from the current order selection.

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Cart total

The cart total is calculated from product quantities and prices.

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Product lists and the cart

Product lists help you choose products faster. The cart collects the quantities you select. Typical flow:

1. Select a product list
2. Review list products
3. Add quantities from the list
4. Open the cart
5. Continue to order review

Product lists do not create orders by themselves. The cart is where selected products are collected before review.

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Show only selected products

The ordering page can show only selected products. Use this when you want to quickly verify what has already been added to the cart. This is useful when:

• You are working through a long product list
• You want to check selected quantities
• You want to avoid scrolling through unselected products
• You want a quick pre-review before opening the cart

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Continue to order review

When the cart is ready, continue to order review. The order detail page is where you continue with the available order actions.

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What happens after review

After you continue from the cart:

• Mathership creates or opens an order review
• The selected cart items become order items
• Each order item keeps the selected product and quantity
• Product prices are saved with the order items where available
• The order can appear in Order History
• The order detail page opens for review and next actions

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Delivery location, notes, and sending

The shopping cart is mainly for product selection and quantity review. Delivery location, order message, estimated delivery date, sending, draft handling, and scheduling belong to the order review or order detail workflow where available. Use the cart to confirm what you want to order. Use the order review or order detail page to confirm the remaining order information.

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Order modes

Depending on the order workflow, an order can later be: The cart itself is the preparation step before those final order actions.

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Order email and attachments

When an order is eventually sent, Mathership can send the vendor an order email. The order email can include:

• Customer and vendor information
• Delivery location
• Order message
• Ordered products
• Quantities
• Prices and totals where available

Depending on company settings, order details may also be attached as PDF or CSV.

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Cart and inventory receiving

The cart does not update inventory stock directly. Inventory changes happen later through receiving and transfer workflows. Typical flow:

1. Select products in the cart
2. Create or send the order
3. Open the order later
4. Receive or transfer ordered products into inventory
5. Inventory ledger entries are created during receiving

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Legacy basket and multi-order

The frontend still contains a legacy basket flow for multi-order, but the dedicated multi-order pages are currently placeholders. For that reason, this documentation focuses on the active My Inventory shopping cart.

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Common workflows

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Build an order from the full catalog

1. Open My Inventory
2. Search or browse products
3. Add quantities from the product table
4. Open the cart
5. Review selected products
6. Continue to order review

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Build an order from a product list

1. Open My Inventory
2. Select a product list
3. Add quantities from the list
4. Use Show only selected if needed
5. Open the cart
6. Continue to order review

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Remove an item before review

1. Open the cart
2. Find the product
3. Remove it or reduce quantity to zero
4. Check the updated total
5. Continue only when the cart is correct

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Check selected products quickly

1. Add products from the table
2. Turn on Show only selected
3. Review selected rows
4. Open the cart for the final check
5. Continue to order review

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Best practices

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Common problems

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