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Purchase Confirmation
When a user (or anonymous guest) purchases an item, prompt them to confirm that the item was purchased.
I have the same question here as #40. What does the user flow here look like?
We had some discussion about this back in June, but now we should probably decide exactly how we want this feature to happen.
Given that we can't track what the user is doing when they're on the Amazon website, does it make sense to:
- Have the Amazon link open in a new tab
- When the user returns to the wishlist page, have some sort of modal/prompt asking whether they purchased the item?
- Logging the response in some way - either to the user account (if created) or to an anonymous user (if not)?
@leesharma and I have discussed this item, and while we believe it's important, it's not essential for the MVP. Let's start work on this once we've completed our MVP milestone.
Noting for post MVP discussion: another option would be to use the remote shopping cart and on checkout capture the purchase information. This also has it's shortcomings as I don't believe there is a way to track what happens after a user clicks checkout. They could back out of the purchase at that point.
An added benefit would be that up until checkout the customer would remain at Playtime rather than opening up x browser windows and adding x items to their cart.
@Brennaleker To make sure I understand, is this along the lines of what you're talking about?
It's a shame Amazon doesn't have a better wishlist API. It'd make everything much easier!