Bug 24578 - Add wording to Cart Feature on the OPAC indicating this is temporary
Summary: Add wording to Cart Feature on the OPAC indicating this is temporary
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: Koha
Classification: Unclassified
Component: OPAC (show other bugs)
Version: Main
Hardware: All All
: P5 - low enhancement (vote)
Assignee: Owen Leonard
QA Contact: Testopia
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Reported: 2020-02-04 13:16 UTC by Kelly McElligott
Modified: 2020-08-03 16:57 UTC (History)
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Description Kelly McElligott 2020-02-04 13:16:31 UTC
The purpose of the Cart feature is a place to temporary store items that a patron may want to look at without logging into their account on the OPAC.  However, there is no wording to indicate that this is a temporary cart - and this is confusing to patrons.

Wording such as

"Placing items in a cart is temporary- once you log out of the OPAC or close the browser you lose the items in your cart"
Comment 1 Cab Vinton 2020-08-03 16:57:35 UTC
Alternatively, could not the cart contents be saved if a patron is logged in?

We had a patron lose 50 items that they'd placed in their cart without realizing they would be lost ...