[ANNOUNCE] Full cart support now in API

[Justin Kerr Sheckler]

Hi All,

I'm happy to announce that you can now add and remove listings, and
update quantites in user shopping carts via the API! Full details are
here:

http://developer.etsy.com/docs/resource_cart

In addition, problems with associations on the Cart resource not
behaving the same as associations elsewhere have been fixed.

Please kick the tires and let us know what you think! We're excited
to open up new possibilities for Etsy apps.

thanks,

Justin Kerr Sheckler
Developer API Lead
Etsy.com
jus...@etsy.com

[Ian Maroney]

Is there a future possibility for building a cart for an anonymous user?

It would be a HUGE deal to be able to build a cart and then pass the user to etsy with a cart ID to sign in/sign up to be able to check out.

- Ian

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[Chris Copeland]

I second what Ian is asking for.  It's what I was hoping this feature was going to be. 

I don't think users are going to want to OAuth and give my app access to their whole account just so I can add items to their cart.

- Chris

[Jey B]

Hi Justin,

When you visit a URL attached to a cart and aren't signed in on the
Etsy main site you just get an unhelpful error page. Can this be fixed
to redirect to sign in and forward on to the correct screen post-
login?

Thanks.
Jey

[Lior Sion]

+1 on cart for anonymous, I could use it as well, most of my users are
not Etsy users.

[Daniel Dickison]

Carts API is great, but I think I just found a small code or documentation bug: if you request the Coupon association on getAllUserCarts, the Coupon object returned is missing the coupon_id field.

Try adding an item from the shop lilkt384 with coupon code "SUMMERFUN", then fetch your cart via OAuth like:
GET http://openapi.etsy.com/v2/private/users/__SELF__/carts?includes=Listings(title%2Cstate%2Clisting_id%2Cprice%2Ccurrency_code%2Cquantity)%3A25%3A0%2FMainImage%3A25%3A0%2CCoupon%3A25%3A0

I get a Coupon association that looks like this (this isn't the raw JSON, but a processed, internal representation) -- notice the missing coupon_code field:
{
"coupon_code" = SUMMERFUN;
"domestic_only" = "<null>";
"free_shipping" = "<null>";
"pct_discount" = 15;
"seller_active" = 1;
}

[Justin Kerr Sheckler]

Hi there,

Anonymous guest carts isn't something that our platform supports, but
we're looking into it.

We'll also get back to you on the two bugs!

thanks

Justin Kerr Sheckler
Developer API Lead
Etsy.com
jus...@etsy.com

[Chris Copeland]

Hi Justin,

When you say the platform doesn't support it, do you mean Etsy in general or just the API platform?  Anonymous carts are supported on www.etsy.com (at least my definition of an anonymous cart).  For example:

1. Start private browsing session in Firefox so I look anonymous to Etsy.
2. Got to www.etsy.com
3. Click on the first item I see
4. Click Add to Cart
5. Checkout page is shown
6. Click Check out with PayPal
7. I am now prompted to create an Etsy account

At step 5, a cart exists for an anonymous user. 

What I'd like to be able to do is add items to a cart programmatically and then redirect the user to Step 5 where they could checkout (and register, if necessary).

Sorry if I am restating the obvious but I thought it would be good to make sure we had clearly defined the feature we're requesting. 

-Chris

[Jey B]

The totals coming through from the new carts API are formatted
differently than numbers from elsewhere in the API.

eg. getListing on this item
http://www.etsy.com/listing/59070078/oil-painting-dollhouse-3

returns a price "100000.00"

and a cart containing this item

returns a subtotal in the format: "100,000.00"

Can these be standardized to be like the listing for ease of parsing
and given that comma-formatting is only correct in certain locales?

Thanks.
Jey

> > > On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 5:37 PM, Ian Maroney <ian.maro...@gmail.com>

[Daniel Dickison]

I second this ― commas in those fields is problematic. I do see that the doc specifies them as "string" type rather than "float", but it would be a lot more useful if they are floats since the API client needs to subtract the discounts from the total to match what gets displayed on the website as the "Total" for an order.

Sent from my iPhone

[sgress]

Any update on the ability to add an item to an anonymous cart?  Users have been asking for this feature for almost a year without any response.  It's asking a lot for users to oAuth in to an app to do something that they can do on etsy.com without logging in at all.  The only alternative is to use the add_to_cart.php method which isn't supported and can't give useful feedback.

Thanks,

Scott