Session Lifetime of a Cart & Whishlist

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#1

How long are products saved in a Users cart? If they log out and log back in tomorrow, will their products still be in the cart?

#2

I believe the cart is kept forever. I have abandoned user carts, from registered users. from 2011 to date.

Carts are stored server-side.

You can delete them using the Customers > Abandoned / Live Carts form - but it has no pagination in v3.

#3

Carts are based on life of the user's session. Carts should be cleared in 14 days. But that doesn't mean that a user is guaranteed to see their cart if their session has been invalidated or cleared and restarted (I.e. mobile device flushing cookies).

#4

V 3.0.6

My Registered Customers have cart data that never expires (Wish list and cart). Unregistered Customer's carts only seem to last for 30 days; my oldest cart for an Unregistered Customer right now is exactly 1 month old and there are none older than that. My oldest Registered Customer cart is from 2011, it contains Wish List items and Cart contents. If I “act on behalf of” the customer, the cart and wish list contents are there in the store.

#5

Yep, difference between registered user and anonymous.

#6

sorry to bump this thread but is it possible to change the duration when the cart would be cleared? Where do I find it? Im using 4.2.4

#7

Please try to change this value in the config.php file:



define('SESSIONS_STORAGE_ALIVE_TIME', SECONDS_IN_DAY * 7 * 2); // 2 weeks

#8

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Please try to change this value in the config.php file:



define('SESSIONS_STORAGE_ALIVE_TIME', SECONDS_IN_DAY * 7 * 2); // 2 weeks


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Thanks! I did not manage to test it extensively, but it seems it only affected guest accounts.

Instead I just made an addon to fn_clear_cart($cart) when SESSIONS_STORAGE_ALIVE_TIME is reached from the last cart transaction time stamp.