Support for mini-cart on e-commerce site

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Business value

On an e-commerce site, we want to ensure a customer's shopping journey is continuous and there are minimal disruptions to the shopping process. When a customer adds a product to the cart from the product page, we want the customer to be able to continue browsing on the product page. When browsing on the site, the customer should be able to get a cart summary without navigating to the cart page. This experience provides more cross-selling opportunities for a retailer. In Dynamics 365 Commerce, we will enable this functionality by supporting notifications and a mini-cart experience.

Feature details

The mini-cart is a module that will be supported on the header module of the e-commerce page. The module can be invoked on hover. It shows items added to the cart, a quick summary of the order total, and provides a way for the customer to check out. In addition, in Dynamics 365 Commerce, the site builder will expose new site settings that allow the retailer to show notifications when items are added to the cart, without the user navigating to the cart page.