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Preserve The Cart For Users Across Logins

2019-04-28    cart

The cart (by default) automatically handles cart+user associations in the following cases:

Event State Action
User login/authentication Cart exists Associate cart with user
User logout & lockout Cart exists Dissociate cart from user
New cart gets created User is logged in Associate cart with user

To prevent this behavior, set the vanilo.cart.auto_assign_user config value to false:

// config/vanilo.php
return [
    'cart' => [
        'auto_assign_user' => false
    ]
];

Preserve The Cart For Users Across Logins

It is possible to keep the cart for users after logout and restore it after successful login.

This feature is disabled by default. To achive this behavior, set the vanilo.cart.preserve_for_user config value to true

Event State Action
User login/authentication Cart for this session doesn't exist, user has a saved active cart Restore the cart
User login/authentication Cart for this session exists The current cart will be kept
User logout & lockout Cart for this session exists Cart will be kept for the user in db