Shopping cart user experience

I dig the concept - highlighting the subtotal is a nice touch. The line item listing doesn't leave much space for thumbnails and the like, but this doesn't need to be for every store. This could easily be a drop-in replacement for the Cart form.

AFAIK update operations can be included in a view; cfr. http://drupal.org/project/views_bulk_operations

I'm in favor of the subtotal and relocating the 'Delete' buttons.
But I would place the 'Update cart' button in the middle so it's closer to the quantity fields to which it's related.

Imo 3.png is perfect (as had been mentioned in http://drupal.org/node/840786)
Just maybe to put the "Continue shopping" button first, and "Update cart" closer to "Checkout" (or above of it).

Thought I'd post this here. It's an example of a friend's Magento site at the shopping cart.

http://img.skitch.com/20101022-t9p87auqe1ikx3x9niuyki41b2.png

@recidive I like what you did with mock #3 and how its implemented. It looks like it will be very straight forward visually to have editable products as well.

I do like the more pronounced checkout button and switching the quantity and unit price ordering, but I don't think I like the remove button on the right. It messes up the flow of seeing the various line item total prices totaled into the cart subtotal at the bottom of the table. If we were to move it from the very left, I think putting it beneath the product information would be ok.

Line item total is not important at all. Users care about 3 numbers: line item price and quantity, and cart subtotal. That's all.
I am sure that 'Remove' on the right is better than on the left. If a line item starts with the suggestion to remove it, it is not good. Maybe it is good for a user, but not for a shop.

Per Magento sample cart,
Imo it is not so perfect. Imagine 20 line items in it - it will look messy.
1. No coloumn head titles.
2. Too much stress on actions with quantity (x, remove, update, qty, input field).
3. "Unit" in "Unit Price" and "Item" in "item Total" are unecessary.
4. No "Update" cart button.
5. Total > Subtotal > Total (again?) is misleading.
6. "Continue shopping" is misleading. Sounds like a suggestion to proceed with the process (of checking out). "Back to products" or alike would be more adequate.
But not bad, of course. Usable.

I haven't really pursued the Views forms integration lately, though it's been on my mind. I honestly don't know how possible it is or what approach it'll take... feel free to let this sit for a week or two, though, to see if I can get traction on the Views stuff for this and the line item manager widget.

Can anyone explain to me whats going on? Are we hardcoding the visual display of this?

Alright :) I might have some additional changes when we reach something flexible.

I'm very interested in using Drupal Commerce and have just started to learn the application... so my comments are late but hopefully welcome. I also have some questions in Drupal Commerce Forums (user johnm)

It seems the notion of collecting discount codes at this point (before checkout) is still open?
I favor collecting early so buyer can see impact and maybe buy more after seeing total price reduced?

Also, using trash can icon for Remove is an option to consider. Attached is a screenshot example from one of my Magento sites.

Regards, John Mahan

I'm not sure there's any work remaining on this issue. I can't recall why I left it open, but since the cart form is a View now and it follows more closely recidive's suggestions, perhaps it's a good time to close this and let other issues open up if necessary. I'm tagging this for review at our sprint in June.

Alrighty, I'll close it for now and run through everything with Bojhan in June.