OCAPI 23.4 includes support for temporary baskets. Temporary baskets allow for immediate order requests in B2C Commerce. For example, a shopper uses a Buy Now option to purchase an item. The temporary basket, which has a limited lifetime of 15 minutes, is populated with all the data required to ready the basket for checkout without affecting the regular shopper basket.
How: Pass a query parameter temporary into POST baskets to create a temporary basket. With OCAPI 24.1 the
basket document attribute is temporary_baskets indicates a basket is
temporary.
The temporary basket differs from a shopper basket in the following ways:
- Basket lifetime is limited compared to shopper baskets
A temporary lifetime of 15 minutes is used for basket retention
- Limit is separate from shopper and agent basket limits. The shopper can have up to 4 temporary baskets
- Available to all shoppers including guests (unlike agent baskets)