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Hi there,

I’ve done an amount of web design in my time but this is my first time using Wix and I’ve been more of a backend person too, so I’m not in familiar ground.

I’m looking to do, what I think, is a fairly simple operation- when something is added to a basket, make a call to our ERP system to flag that stock might be able to decrease. Looking at the help guides, I’ve tried to use this code:

import wixStores from 'wix-stores-backend';

export function wixStores_onCartCreated(event) {
  console.log("This is working");
  
  // Do the stuff that I need it to do
}

My problem is that I never get that console log to appear.

This code has been added using the section at the bottom of the editor, in both the ‘page’ and ‘site’ options with the same lack of success. To test things, I added an onClick action to an image to log something, and that appeared just fine.

I have also read that I can create a file called ‘events.js’ and add it to the ‘Backend’ section of my site- but nowhere can I find instruction on where I go to add files to the ‘Backend’.

Please let me know what I’m doing wrong and / or how to fix it- I’ve lost more hair than I care to think about on this issue!

Thanks,

James

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https://www.wix.com/corvid/reference/wix-stores-backend.Events.html

Have a look here for working with code and debugging etc.
https://support.wix.com/en/article/corvid-testing-and-debugging-your-code

Backend Code & HTTP Functions
Because of security concerns, messages in backend code are not logged to the browser’s console on the published version of your site.

Because HTTP functions are not browser based, messages are not logged to the console when viewing the published version of your site.

You can use Site Monitoring to view console messages in backend code and HTTP functions on the published version of your site.

So you should look into using Wix Site Monitoring as suggested above as that will see everything.
https://www.wix.com/corvid/reference/site-monitoring.html
https://support.wix.com/en/article/corvid-about-site-monitoring