SuiteCommerce Plugin
SuiteCommerce Multi-Cart
Improve the SuiteCommerce shopping experience via multiple carts. By Anchor Group SuiteCommerce Developers.
Give SuiteCommerce buyers as many carts as they need—then let them share, organize, move, merge, and purchase without turning one active cart into a catch-all for every project.
Feature Overview
Natively, SuiteCommerce allows one active shopping cart. Wishlists can hold products for later, but they don’t provide the richer purchasing workflow businesses often need for active orders. Multi-Cart gives customers a dedicated SuiteCommerce cart management experience where they can create and name as many carts as needed.
What the SuiteCommerce Extension Can Do
Create unlimited named carts in SuiteCommerce.
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Move products from one cart to another
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Set a selected cart as the active cart when the customer is ready to buy
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Share carts with other Customers or Contacts
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Show live pricing updates for items stored in each cart
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Merge multiple carts before Checkout
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Support collaborative cart building
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Make repeat and similar ordering easier
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Organize purchasing by project, job site, client, department, or location
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Pair with Contact Management Solution for shared purchasing across Contacts on the same Customer account.
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Add approval workflows or NetSuite dashboard reporting through additional customization
Create Multiple Carts in SuiteCommerce
Customers can keep projects and repeat purchases separate while they’re being built, collaborate with other buyers, then merge or activate the cart they’re actually ready to order.
For example, that might mean carts for:
- Madison Job Site
- Corporate Office
- October Restock
- Client – Miller Project
Name them whatever makes sense. The important part is that the buyer doesn’t have to treat every pending purchase like one giant order.
A Better NetSuite B2B Ecommerce Cart Experience
NetSuite B2B ecommerce is where SuiteCommerce Multi-Cart starts making considerably more sense than a consumer-style wishlist.
In NetSuite B2B ecommerce, buyers are often buying for:
- A department
- A client
- A project
- A location
- A franchise
- A job site
(Possibly all of the above before lunch.)
SuiteCommerce Multi-Cart was explicitly built for companies needing separate carts across departments, projects, locations, or clients. For SuiteCommerce B2B, this gives shoppers a much more realistic way to organize purchasing before they’re ready to place the final order.
Build Separate Carts for Every Project or Job Site
SuiteCommerce Multi-Cart is ideal for project-based purchasing, where a contractor or project buyer may need to build separate purchase lists for several jobs at once.
Multi-Cart lets them create a dedicated cart for each project, job site, client, or event, then keep adding items as the project develops.
For example, instead of:
“Cart 1”
you get:
“Milwaukee Office Renovation” and “Madison Distribution Center” and “Johnson Project – Phase II”
Build Department Orders Separately
Large organizations often have multiple people buying under one customer account. Rather than asking all of those departments to work inside one active cart, each group can build its own purchase list separately, making SuiteCommerce Multi-Cart great for department-based purchasing, including separate monthly carts and independent cart building by Contacts.
Share SuiteCommerce Carts With Other Contacts
SuiteCommerce Multi-Cart lets carts be shared between Customers or Contacts, allowing multiple authorized users to participate in building the same order.
When paired with Anchor Group’s Contact Management Solution, Contacts tied to the same Customer can participate in shared cart workflows.
Move Items Between SuiteCommerce Carts
Changed your mind about where an item belongs?
The SuiteCommerce Multi-Cart interface lets buyers move items from one SuiteCommerce cart to another through a simple selection experience:
Select the items → Choose the destination cart. → Continue with your day.
Far less exciting than deleting and rebuilding half the order. (Which is exactly what we want.)
Merge Multiple Carts Before Checkout
Separate carts are useful while customers are organizing the purchase, but they don’t necessarily need to stay separate forever.
Multi-Cart lets customers select multiple carts, choose a parent cart, and merge the items together when they're ready—especially useful when combining purchases gives the business an opportunity to reduce fulfillment or shipping costs.
SuiteCommerce Checkout Optimization for Complicated B2B Orders
Scenario: The customer can have many saved carts, but only one needs to go to Checkout right now.
When a customer is ready to purchase, they simply set the desired cart as Active and continue through the normal SuiteCommerce Checkout flow. After Checkout, that cart and its contents are removed from the saved-cart experience.
Keep Saved Cart Pricing Up to Date
A saved cart shouldn’t become a time capsule.
This app displays live pricing updates for items in each cart so buyers can see changes rather than relying on whatever price existed when they first added the item—particularly useful for B2B buyers who may spend days or weeks building a project purchase.
Build Better Repeat Orders
Some customers place highly similar orders over and over, which is another place where named carts can earn their keep.
Instead of rebuilding the same working purchase list from scratch every time, buyers can use separate carts to organize recurring purchasing needs and similar orders.
- For a franchise, that could mean a cart pattern for each store
- For a department, monthly supplies
- For a contractor, a standard project buy-list
Not quite a reorder button, but moreso a much more useful workspace for the next order.
Give Franchise Managers a Cart for Every Location
For Multi-location and franchise organizations, SuiteCommerce Multi-Cart allows owners or managers to create separate carts for individual franchise locations, collaborate with local staff, and preserve location-specific ordering context.
One login can oversee multiple buying processes, local team members can help build the correct order, and each location remains organized.
A SuiteCommerce Extension Built for Collaborative Purchasing
Authorized users can see the carts they have access to, create new carts, and take actions against existing carts, making Multi-Cart a particularly useful SuiteCommerce extension for buying processes where several people, accounts, departments, or projects are involved before an order is actually ready to submit.
Need More Than the Standard Multi-Cart Workflow?
The existing app covers the main multi-cart functionalities, but purchasing rules have a habit of getting company-specific. Anchor Group’s SuiteCommerce developers can extend the solution through additional SuiteCommerce customization for requirements like:
- Department-based approval workflows
- Cart merging/deletion approvals
- NetSuite dashboard reporting by department
- Additional customer/Contact sharing rules
- More complex cart access permissions
- Other purchasing workflows around your customer hierarchy
FAQs
It’s a SuiteCommerce extension that removes the standard one-active-cart limitation and lets customers create, name, manage, share, move items among, and merge multiple carts before Checkout.
Project-Based Buyers
Build separate carts for individual projects, clients, jobs, or sites, then merge them when it makes sense to place one order.
Multi-Department Organizations
Let different departments build their own carts while preserving the option for centralized review, approval, or purchasing.
Franchise and Multi-Location Businesses
Create separate carts for each location and let local staff contribute while managers maintain visibility over what gets ordered.
B2B Customers With Collaborative Buying Teams
Share carts with authorized Contacts or Customers so the people involved in the purchase can build the order together.
Yes. SuiteCommerce Multi-Cart lets customers create as many named carts as they need.
Wishlists are a limited way to store potential future orders, while Multi-Cart is designed for active purchasing workflows involving named carts, sharing, price updates, moving items, merging, and repeat orders.
Yes. Carts can be shared with other Customers or Contacts.
When paired with Anchor Group’s Contact Management Solution, Contacts on the same Customer can participate in shared cart building.
What's Next?
One cart works great when there’s one order. Your B2B customers rarely have that luxury. Give them separate carts for every project, department, location, or client—then let them share, merge, and buy when the order is actually ready.
Need something a little different?
If you’re not seeing the exact fit you need, no worries—we also build affordable custom solutions to fit your business, your workflows, and the way your team actually works.
Reach out and let’s build a solution that fits like it ought to.
