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lauriepk
Dec '10

Hi,



I sell 4 ebooks through e-Junkie, and have 4 different landing pages to promote them. When I readers click the Buy Now button, their shopping cart adds my other ebooks as a purchase. They have to deselect my other ebooks before they can proceed.



Here's an example:



http://theadventurouswriter.com/howtosayiloveyou/ Click the Buy Now, and you get all my books.



How can I make it so they only get the ebook they're interested in, in their cart? Deselecting the items on the final step of the Seller product page doesn't work.



Thanks,

Laurie

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lauriepk
Dec '10

Also, do you have to insert the new button code each time you try to deselect the other listed ebooks?

E-junkie_GuruWebmaster & Support Guru
Dec '10

We have been unable to reproduce what you described on the page you linked; perhaps you have resolved this for yourself by now?



What you were describing sounded like you were using Cart buttons rather than Buy Now buttons, so in that case each buyer (or you posing as a buyer to test your cart) would start with an empty cart and then add items to their cart, and those items would persist in their own cart for up to 24 hours or until they remove or purchase the items. Buy Now buttons bypass the cart and take the buyer directly to instant checkout for just one item at a time, so it's not possible to add multiple items to an order that way.

lauriepk
Dec '10

Thanks for your help!



Yes, I was using the Cart buttons, but it appeared as 2,3, or 4 of my other ebooks selected. I don't want my customers to feel like I'm pushing them to buy all my ebooks!



I couldn't get the Cart to only show the ebook readers want, even though I added the specific cart button to my sales page.



So I decided to use the Buy Now buttons instead. Ideally, I'd have the Cart button with the ebook readers want selected and the other 3 ebooks deselected. But Buy Now is fine.



Cheers,

Laurie

E-junkie_GuruWebmaster & Support Guru
Dec '10

An online shopping cart is designed to work just like a real-world shopping cart. When you go to, say, a grocery store, you get a shopping cart of your own just like every other customer. Each shopper's cart starts out empty, then it accumulates items as they add items to their own cart. You can leave your cart for a little while and come back to it, and all the items you'd put into it would still be there, but if you abandon your cart for too long without coming back to it nor taking it to a cashier, eventually the store will round it up and put the items back.



The items you were seeing in your online cart were items that you, posing as a buyer, had added to just your own shopping cart, within the previous 24 hours. Other buyers using the cart buttons on your site would get their own cart, which would start out empty and only accumulate the items they deliberately add to it. Any buyer can keep a collection of items in their cart for up to 24 hours, but if that much time passes without them viewing their cart nor taking it to checkout, their cart would get emptied, so they'd need to start over next time they return to your site -- just like if you go to the grocer today, you wouldn't expect to find the cart you'd abandoned in the aisle yesterday.