Magento Cart Reservation Extension

version 1.8.6
(5.0)
19 Review(s)

Magento Cart Timer extension offers various options for your customers’ convenience. Temporary reserve products in shopping carts, display countdown timer, notify shoppers about product availability, display popup or email timer reminder, and much more!

  • Temporary reserve products in Shopping Cart and Checkout Page.
  • Display timer and reservation notification on Product Pages and Category Pages.
  • Remind your clients to checkout before the time is out with Popup and Email Reminder.
  • CE: 1.6.x - 1.9.x
    EE: 1.12.x - 1.14.x
  • 100%
    Open Code
  • 60 Days
    Refund Policy
  • Free
    Lifetime Updates
  • CE: 1.6.x - 1.9.x
    EE: 1.12.x - 1.14.x
  • 100%
    Open Code
  • 60 Days
    Refund Policy
  • Free
    Lifetime Updates

Key Features of Magento Cart Reservation Extension

Magento Cart Reservation Extension allows customers to temporarily reserve products they have added to their cart. When a customer adds an item to his cart, it is reserved for "x" amount of minutes before they become available again to other customers. So, the customer has the opportunity to purchase these products first. The Magento cart countdown and stock alert message used within this Magento Cart Timer module are a great way to monitor stock availability.

Temporary Reserve Products in Shopping Carts

  • When a product is added to a cart, the client will see a timer notifying them that the reservation has started and will expire soon.
  • Reserved products are not available for other clients and guaranteed to be sold to the clients who added them to shopping carts.

Display Timer and Reservation Notification on Product Pages

  • Cart Reservation notifications can be displayed on product pages too. Let other customers know when the product will become available at your store again.
  • All messages can be translated, modified and styled as per your Magento store design.

Mark Reserved Products on Category Page

  • Let your customers know which product is popular and will be sold out soon.
  • Reservation messages can be added manually using our extensive documentation for developers.
  • Global or Independent Cart Reservation Timers are Available

    • Admin can configure the extension to display one “global timer” for a whole shopping cart. When a user adds a new product to a cart – the timer will reset and start the reservation from the beginning.
    • It is also possible to use a “countdown timer for each product separately”. This way each product in the shopping cart will have its own reservation timer running independently from other timers.

    Magento Checkout Page Timer

    • Give your customers enough time to checkout. The extension allows you to specify how much time the user can spend on the checkout page before the products become unreserved.

    Popup and Email Reminders

    • Display Popup timer reminder or send email reminders to your customers.
    • Remind your clients to checkout before the time is out and the products become unreserved (or removed) from their shopping carts.

    "Cash on Delivery" Offline Reservation

    • If you are using offline payment methods, such as cash on delivery, then our “reservation after checkout” feature will let you reserve the product until the payment is made or otherwise return it automatically back in stock.


    Magento Cart Reservation Extension Overview

    Magento cart timer allows the site owner to create urgency without pressure. Items in your customer shopping cart will expire after a certain amount of minutes. This makes your customers want to hurry and buy before someone else does. Events and products can sell out quickly so clients must keep an eye on the countdown clock in their cart in order to secure the picks. If an item they want is in another member's cart, they can refresh the browser or check back on the item throughout the duration of the event to see if it has become available.

    There are two types of cart reservation timers available: the countdown timer for each product separately or reservation of all products in the cart. The extension allows you to set the general time of reservation including both cart reservation and checkout reservation providing more time for the purchase to be completed which leads to higher sales conversion rates and higher customer satisfaction. Lastly the website owner has two options for products after the reservation time expires - to delete the products from the cart or to leave them in the cart unreserved.


    Highlights:

     

    Limited Stock Reservations

    If you are running a private sales, daily deals, flash sales or sample sales website where you have limited quantities of product in stock – then this extension is for you!

     

    Ticket Reservations

    Allow your customers to reserve concert tickets, flights, car rentals, hotel bookings in the shopping cart just like any other product.

     

    Holiday Sales and Special Deals

    Have lots of products in stock but still want to make it look like the stock will run out? Use shopping cart timer to create urgency of sale without pressure on your customers during holiday sales and special events.

     

    Offline Reservations

    If you are using offline payment methods, such as cash on delivery, then our “reservation after checkout” feature will let you reserve the product until the payment is made or otherwise return it automatically back in stock.


    All Features:

    • NEW! Added support of Inventory > "Manage Stock" option
    • Holds product in store inventory for a specific reservation period of time until the client buys the product or reservation time expires (whichever is sooner)
    • Displays "reserved" or "in another member's cart" message on product list and product page
    • Works for all user account types - Guests and Logged users
    • Supported Magento product types: Simple, Grouped, Configurable, Virtual and Downloadable
    • The extension can display either individual timers per product in cart or a global timer for all items in the cart
    • Allows you to remove products from the client's cart after reservation time expires or to leave them unreserved in cart
    • This Magento extension can be used for any products, including but not limited to reservation of concert tickets, flights, car rentals, hotel bookings and other types of reservations
    • Admin can enable reservation for separate products and categories as well as functionality to inherit these settings from the parent category
    • Countdown timer on product page will display how much time is left before the product becomes unreserved
    • Admin can add and reserve products in shopping carts via the "Create New Order" interface in Magento Admin Panel
    • “Reservation after checkout” feature allows temporary reservation of products after the order was placed
    • Popup reminder & Email reminder will notify clients about cart reservation expiration
    • Admin can define reservation time in shopping cart and checkout page
    • Checkout page timer can be set to restart or continue countdown each time client visits the Checkout page to limit the amount of time client can hold the product
    • Admin also has an option to set an unlimited reservation time and hide both timers on cart page and checkout page
    • API support is enabled. Additionally, the cart reservation timer can be displayed on any page of the website (not only in shopping cart) if needed
    • Admin can set custom countdown timer format and change all reservation messages if needed
    • Full "Store View" support
    • 100% open code Magento extension

    Magento Cart Reservation Extension Reviews

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    • Amazing features and the best support!
      I'm using it on: cepmania.com
      ERCAN KĂ–KSEL posted on November 21, 2023. Review for Magento 2.x
      This is one of the best cart reservation Extensions for Magento 2.. It is an amazing extension. There are so many features as compared to other extensions in the market. I highly recommend it. As usual, Plumrocket team was extremely responsive and helpful.. Love Plumrocket..
    • Highly recommended extension for cart reservation, because of the extension's functionality and the extraordinary support team.
      I'm using it on: www.americanfizzwholesale.co.uk
      Reza Aghajanzadeh posted on June 20, 2023. Review for Magento 2.x
      I'm using this extension for one year, but recently I faced a problem in my store regarding cart reservations with maximum quantity. And I reported this issue to the plumrocket support team, and the support team worked for me on this issue unconditionally and solve this problem completely. Thus I strongly recommend this extension because the extension is very useful and easy to use with the extraordinary support team.
    • Flexible extension and cart countdown timers
      Nicolas Wolff posted on August 11, 2022. Review for Magento 2.x
      So far the extension is working great. There are many settings to customize the countdown timers the way we want. We are seeing an increase in sales as our customers are confident they will receive our limited offers as they are reserved in the shopping cart.
    • Excellent Support
      Jaswinder Singh posted on December 14, 2021. Review for Magento 2.x
      Excellent Support and Prompt Response.
      I can't have a better experience for my customers.
      Overall great extension! Installation and configuration were simple, so we did it successfully.
    • Good module, delivers what it promises.
      Rafael Martins da Costa Fernandes posted on November 22, 2021. Review for Magento 2.x
      The module fulfills its function and is ideal for the store that has limited stock... It also contributes to the customer's quickest purchase decision.
    • Very good! Thank you very much! We are glad to cooperate!
      I'm using it on: artisbono.ru
      Artis Bono posted on May 10, 2019. Review for Magento 2.x
      Great module, great support!
      Customers appreciate the ability to use the function of this module. In order to come up with such a module, it is necessary to understand well the relationship between the seller and the buyer. It is a delicate matter. The module has a good perspective to become part of the loyalty program. For example, use it for certain groups of clients (regular) or according to some rules. As for support, it is beyond praise! Everything is so fast, good and without idle chatter ... Amazing! We strongly recommend this module to purchase and use in their stores. We recommend the PlumRocket command!
    • RECOMMENDED 100%
      I'm using it on: beaute-me.com
      admin admin posted on December 20, 2018. Review for Magento 1.x
      Best and easy to install. This is the one of my twelfth extensions from Plumrocket. I really love how their extensions easily integrate to our Magento (Porto) theme with little to no issues.
    • I really like it!
      Ronald L. Gross posted on November 26, 2017. Review for Magento 2.x
      It is compatible with my other extensions, and this is great! I like the ability to conveniently reserve the product. I have also noticed product competition growth since I installed this module. I like it so far!
    • Looks and Works Great
      I'm using it on: www.fibercrafty.com
      John Keeter posted on June 02, 2017. Review for Magento 1.x
      I have been using Plumrocket's Magento Cart Reservation for a few months now and have been quite happy with it!

      It worked out the box with no issues and the default styles look professional enough that I did not feel the need to make any major customizations to it.

      Support has also been quite helpful and I think the plugin adds a much needed feature to Magento!
    • Best extension and support
      I'm using it on: zenithandquasar.com
      Lilly Himrod posted on October 10, 2016. Review for Magento 1.x
      This extension works flawlessly, and when it doesn't (like when I mess something up tinkering with other extensions), the support team fixes it up for me immediately. I wish Plumrocket would make all my extensions!
    • This is a great extension, improve my conversion rate. Thanks plumrocket.
      I'm using it on: www.flowersapatilhas.com.br
      Joel Martins posted on October 02, 2016. Review for Magento 1.x
      This is a great extension, improve my conversion rate. Thanks plumrocket.
    • Great !!!
      I'm using it on: www.morefashion.bg
      Andreas Schneider posted on March 28, 2016. Review for Magento 1.x
      This is what we searched for !!!
    • Great extension
      I'm using it on: www.degoosta.com
      Claudio alfieri posted on August 04, 2015. Review for Magento 1.x
      This is a must have if you have a limited quantity of stock products.
      The possibility to reserve product create a trusted feeling and a sense of urgency to complete checkout.
      It's also a good way to drive attention on most popular reserved products.
    • Works Good
      I'm using it on: prccregistration.com
      Brent Baker posted on July 06, 2015. Review for Magento 1.x
      Did exactly what I was looking for.
      Works as advertised.
      Good extension.
    • Complex and nice built
      Ezekiel Baker posted on June 04, 2015. Review for Magento 1.x
      After checking this module I understood that it is a complex and greatly built tool for maintaining my unique products reservations. Plum rocket developers also did custom features for my special needs, so now I'm getting the most of of this. Thanks!
    • Really needed this
      I'm using it on: www.bachelr.com
      Ryan So posted on October 03, 2014. Review for Magento 1.x
      Perfect for helping the capture sales. We have seen an increase in conversion thanks to this nice little extension.
    • Thumbs up for this work
      Brian S. posted on September 22, 2014. Review for Magento 1.x
      I say high five for this module! Excellent work you guys, and a reasonable price for such a useful functionality.
      Multiple timers are available, that's what I need.
    • That's what I needed
      Joe Macintosh posted on May 27, 2014. Review for Magento 1.x
      Was looking for some products reservation extension and found it here. It works as I need and popup reminder is a big plus for this extension.
    • Our customers love cart reservation feature!
      Brian K posted on April 16, 2014. Review for Magento 1.x
      We have been using cart reservation for some time now. This is a must have tool for any magento store offering a limited stock of products to their customers. The usual checkout process in magento is very frustrating as it allows multiple users to add the same item to the shopping cart at the same time. Which means that the product will be sold not to the customer who added it to the cart first but to the customer who was faster at checkout page. This doesnt make sense in the usual brick and mortar stores. So people get upset not getting the item and leaving your store unsatisfied. This was a problem for us and cart reservation extension solves this fantastically!!!
      One last thing. We had one issue installing this extension on our custom theme. Make sure to follow documentation as it explains how to install it specifically for custom themes. Otherwise you will be fine.
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    Magento Cart Reservation Extension FAQ

    • Can I Set Cart Reservation Reminder in My Magento 2 Store

      Magento 2 cart reservation reminder is an extremely useful tool to boost sales and create even more urgency provided by the Magento 2 Cart Timer extension. It signifies that the product reservation time is running out, and offers going to checkout with a special button, which speeds up the customer buying decision process.

      The cart reservation reminder can be enabled or disabled right from your Magento backend. You can also set its display time before the reservation ends and create a custom popup template. What’s more, the reservation expiration popup displays both global and separate timers. For example, you set a separate timer, and there are multiple items in your shopping cart. In that case, the timer is applied to each product individually, and the notification popup shows up depending on the timer that expires first.

      How to Set a Product Reservation Reminder Popup

      In order to display a reminder popup, follow these simple steps:

      1. In the main Magento menu, Navigate to Plumrocket -> Cart Reservation -> Configuration
      2. Scroll down to the Reminder Popup section
      3. Choose Yes for Enable Reminder Popup
      4. In the Popup Display Time option, set a time for the notification popup to be displayed before the reservation ends
      5. Click Save Config to apply your changes


      Important! Make sure the Display Popup Time you set is shorter than the Default Cart Reservation Time.

      Here is how the Cart Reservation reminder looks on the frontend:

      How to Customize the Magento 2 Cart Reservation Reminder Popup

      You can easily customize the reservation reminder popup from your Magento 2 backend:

      In the main Magento menu, go to Plumrocket tab -> Cart Reservation -> Configuration -> Reminder Popup -> Popup Template. You can edit the popup in two modes: visual editor and HTML editor, and switch between them with the Show/Hide Editor button.

      We hope this article will come in handy for you. Also, if you have any other questions or suggestions regarding our Magento 2 Cart Timer plugin, feel free to contact us.

       

    Change Log of Magento Cart Reservation Extension

    Legend:  - new feature - bug fix

    Version 1.8.6 Aug 06, 2019

    • Fixed issue with display of Bundle Product options in the section Bundle Items in backend

    Version 1.8.5 Feb 15, 2019

    • Added “Cache Storage Management” to optimize the extension performance
    • Minor changes

    Version 1.8.4 Dec 18, 2018

    • Minor changes and improvements

    Version 1.8.3 Jun 18, 2018

    • Updated jQuery version from 1.10.2 to 1.12.4

    Version 1.8.2 Aug 23, 2017

    • Updated jQuery version
    • Made code style improvements
    • Fixed bug with bundle product (error while adding bundle items to shopping cart)

    Version 1.8.1 Nov 22, 2016

    • Improved support of third-party modules and custom development

    Version 1.8.0 Nov 08, 2016

    • Added support of Magento Full Page Cache
    • Improved extension design for better support of Ultimo & Porto themes

    Version 1.7.2 Mar 16, 2016

    • Added ability to set the countdown timer date format
    • Improved integration with the third parties extensions
    • Fixed bug with PayPal, when the quantity of the product equals 1

    Version 1.7.1 Feb 04, 2016

    • Improved compatibility with Magento Bundle Product Type

    Version 1.7.0 Sep 09, 2015

    • Added support of Magento Bundle Product Type
    • Added support of Inventory > "Manage Stock" option
    • Improved logic checking if customer is on product page
    • Fixed bug on multi-stores: website theme was changing to default theme once cart reminder popup is displayed

    Version 1.6.0 Mar 13, 2015

    • Added ability to enable reservation for separate products and categories as well as functionality to inherit these settings from the parent category
    • Added countdown timer on product page displaying how much time left before the product becomes unreserved
    • Added ability for store administrators to add and reserve products in shopping carts via the "Create New Order" interface in Magento Admin Panel
    • Improved method "isReserved()" for simple products in "Reservation After Checkout" interface
    • Fixed updating of shopping carts that had items removed by the cron job
    • Fixed Cart Reservation popup template in Magento CE 1.9.1

    Version 1.5.7 Feb 10, 2015

    • 100% of the extension code is now Open Source
    • Minor code changes

    Version 1.5.6 Aug 27, 2014

    • Added Magento CE 1.9 support
    • Added RWD (responsive) theme support on Magento CE 1.9
    • Added support for mobile devices
    • Fixed the bug with cron-job on multi-store websites

    Version 1.5.5 May 27, 2014

    • Fixed the problem in extension when purchases are made using magento API.
    • Improved caching reduced database queries to 1-2 per page.
    • If the option to "remove products from cart after reservation time is over" was disabled, then there was a bug during calculation of reserved products.
    • Removed the ability to proceed to checkout where the reservation time is still left if the reservation time in cart has expired already.

    Version 1.5.4 Apr 23, 2014

    • Added new feature "Reservation after Checkout".
    • Fixed bug with themes switching on pages where Cart Reservation popup shows up.

    Version 1.5.3 Mar 27, 2014

    • Fixed incorrect script performance on checkout via the payment systems that redirect to external websites before the order is completed (e.g. PayPal Express).

    Version 1.5.2 Mar 06, 2014

    • Added events logging in order to track products reservation history
    • Optimized blocking algorithm of reserved products. Amount of SQL queries which support the functionality has been reduced by half
    • Changed and optimized the algorithm of importing the items from "guest" shopping cart into logged user's shopping cart
    • Previously customers could add more product units to the shopping cart than there was in stock (which is allowed in native Magento logic). Now this Magento bug is fixed, allowing to reserve only the amount of product units available in stock
    • Fixed the issue with shopping carts deadlock if several users were adding excessive amount of product units
    • Fixed: First customer to add product to his cart was able to increase quantity of this product in shopping cart by picking over the units from other customers which reserved the same product later

    Version 1.5.1 Feb 26, 2014

    • Fixed the issue with "guest" sessions in case the session was missing expected keys for its identification
    • Fixed the bug with products quantity being reset to 0. Formerly when all product units of the same product were reserved, the stock quantity was reset to "0" if one or more product units have been purchased
    • Fixed bug: Items were unreserved when guest customer added an item into his shopping cart and then logged into his account

    Version 1.5.0 Feb 03, 2014

    • Added full "Store View" support. Extension can now be configured as well as enabled/disabled for each store view separately.
    • Fixed bug for customers and admins who used "re-order" feature. Multiple users were able to add very last item to their carts, but nobody was able to purchase this item. This is fixed, first client who added item to cart using re-order feature will be able to purchase.
    • Added popup reminder to notify clients about cart reservation expiration. Popup reminders can be configured from module backend.
    • Added email reminder to notify clients about cart reservation expiration. Email reminders can be configured from cart reservation module backend.
    • Cart reservation units of time format is changed. Added possibility to enter number of "days" as well as hours, minutes and seconds.

    Version 1.4.2 Aug 19, 2013

    • If all units of a product were reserved, the very first purchase of this product would set stock quantity of this product to zero and item status to "Sold Out". This is Fixed

    Version 1.4.1 Jul 16, 2013

    • A function that is called by Cron, no longer returns the object Observer - before it used to cause bugs.

    Version 1.4.0 May 28, 2013

    • Fixed a bug that occurred when its impossibile to identify if user is a registered client or a guest
    • Added API to reset reservation time in shopping cart, checkout page or both pages
    • Cart Reservation menu item is moved under Plumrocket section in Magento Configuration
    • Cart Reservation Extension now takes date from Magento locale instead of web server system date
    • In some browsers client session identifier length was longer than expected
    • Added extension name in global configuration file
    • After the installation the Cart Reservation Extension is disabled by default allowing the site owner to enable extension when necessary and not when it is installed

    Version 1.3.4 May 27, 2013

    • 99% of the extension code is now Open Source

    Version 1.3.3 Apr 25, 2013

    • Fixed counter for Downloadable products
    • Fixed bug in SQL, which occurred when reserved Grouped products did not include child (single) products

    Version 1.3.2 Apr 16, 2013

    • Excluded module js and css files when extension is disabled from magento back-end
    • JQuery library is now protected from third party extensions that use Jquery for their own purposes
    • Fixed display bug of reservation counter used by single products occurring during simultaneous operation of two third-party modules

    Version 1.3.1 Mar 22, 2013

    • Added option to enable / disable extension from magento backend
    • Fixed bug allowing to reserve more products by all online store users than the actual number of products available in stock
    • Synchronized cart information with reservation algorithm

    Version 1.3.0 Mar 06, 2013

    • Added support for magento guest users
    • Optimized performance, added cache for all heavy calculations
    • Added global cart timer (reservation of all items in shopping cart)
    • Added support for shopping cart reservation for guest users who could login and keep same reserved shopping cart
    • Fixed display issue of "Reserved" product label for Downloadable, Grouped and Bundle magento product types
    • Optimized cart reservation for Configurable products
    • Fixed issue when products would return wrong ID in shopping carts. They were returning the number of entry in the shopping cart instead of product ID itself.
    • Deleting all cart reservation redundant information after the purchase is complete

    Version 1.2.5 Mar 01, 2013

    • jQuery library is now included with extension

    Version 1.2.4 Feb 25, 2013

    • Fixed chrome countdown bug

    Version 1.0.0 Oct 23, 2012

    • Created Cart Reservation Magento Extension
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