There is a general set of problems associated with the mini cart on Wix Stores. Especially when used with mobile devices which makes Wix Stores on mobile clumsy and doesn’t deliver a good experience. This is primarily associated with the add to cart functionality which forces the user to leave the current page to look at the cart even when they don’t need to.
The capabilities provided in the $w.CartItem are not consistent with the options available in the $w.ProductPage element when it comes to disabling the minicart. $w.ProductPage permits you to disable the minicart from displaying in the Settings dialogue…
By contrast this option is not available in the $w.CartIcon settings for when the function addToCart() is called, nor is it an option argument of the addToCart() function.
2. When “Open Mini Cart on click” in the Product Page settings is disabled and you add an item to your cart in mobile mode the Mini Cart is ALWAYS displayed regardless of the setting. Once this happens there is no way to go back to the page you were on other than to use the browser’s back option.
When you disable the “Add To Cart” button on the $w.ProductPage element you lose access to the “Open Mini Cart on click” option. This sort of makes sense but it isn’t clear if this setting is only active when the “Add To Cart” button is visible or if it is still active when the button is hidden.
This wouldn’t be a problem if this capability was moved to where it belongs (on the $w.CartIcon) or if it mirrored a similar setting on $w.CartIcon.
The $w.ProductPage has many useful settings accessible from UI settings but none that are accessible from Wix Code. For example it would be great to be able to have access to the “Add To Cart” event and perform additional or alternative tasks when it is clicked similar to the wix-router handler options beforeRouter and afterRouter. Having a beforeAddToCart() where the return value tells the Product Page element if it should continue with normal processing and an afterAddToCart() allowing for post add processing would be really helpful. Additionally having access to element properties on the element from code would be really helpful.
Permit the $w.ProductPage to be decorated in different ways. The experience should be similar to dragging elements into a Strip or ContentBox with errors or warnings being given if key elements are dragged out of the $w.ProductPage element scope.
The store capabilities are pretty impressive at the moment but focus seems to be on Desktop use which may not be the predominant use case for Wix users.
I agree, the store functionality on mobile is severely lacking. It is a poor customer experience and it is losing me sales. The customer is taken directly to the cart page when they add an item to their cart. They should be able to add an item, and keep adding items, until they decide to go to the cart. Half of my customers use my site on mobile, and this is a major problem Wix needs to address.
Exactly!!!
I know the percentage of add to carts result in much lower checkouts but because of this my ratio is well below what it should be!!
it needs sorting!!
I’m having the same problem so I’m thinking of a backup solution.
//problem
On the mobile version of wix, when a user adds a product to his cart he is automatically redirected to the cart page and it makes a bad experience if he wants to add other products on the same page.
//solution
On the shopping pages, the products are displayed in a repeater connected to the “products” database.
On a page there is multiple products displayed with a repeater.
The method would be to select (with check-box) the products that the customer wishes to add to the cart.
Then add a single add-to-cart button that adds all the selected products to the cart.
This method does not prevent the user from being redirected to the cart page but this avoids going to the shopping cart page then clicking on “continue-shopping” and so on for each product.
Same issue here. Should be really simple to realize/enable this feature.
This post is from 2018 and it is still not available, nor did a Wix team member respond to it.
Seems that the WIX team is not interested in a good mobile experience…
hello its been 2 years since post was submitted. we have our hands tied on this. we cant customize user buying experience at all…please do fix it or offer an alternative
Unbelievable that this silly, but imensely crucial problem hasn’t been fixed within 2 years… I was considering upgrading to a business unlimited plan, but I will definitely cancel my subscription all together after seeing this lack of support…
This is really bad experience for our mobile users. What we want is this:
Mobile: Add to cart leaves the user on the product page
Desktop: Opens the mini-cart
As per https://support.wix.com/en/article/wix-stores-customizing-your-product-page
Looks like you can customise the add to cart functionality to not leave the page, but then the desktop doesn’t open the mini-cart! So can’t have both. Really poor experience for the user if we can’t separate what happens on mobile vs desktop independently.
