Preview mode for Checkout V2

Checkout preview is a feature that allows users to:

• Simulate or review their purchase before deciding to publish a product
• Review the purchase experience when changes are made to a published product.

When a user in ‘preview mode’ clicks Buy now or Add to cart, a new, preview-specific cart is created, indicated by a banner, without affecting any existing normal cart. This functionality was previously available with the Checkout V1 flow. With this release, it is now extended to Checkout V2 as well.

To ensure that the preview mode functions through all Checkout V2 for all product purchases,

1. Go to Manage > Marketplace > Settings | Billing Functionality. Scroll to the Checkout section.
2. Enable Checkout V2 All products.
   Note: If the above setting is not enabled, but the End users purchase with Checkout V2 setting is enabled at the product level, then Preview Mode for that specific product will use Checkout V2.

How is Preview Mode different from the normal checkout flow?

Preview Mode simulates a purchase and differs from the normal flow in the following ways:

• No product validations are performed, and only a dummy purchase entry is created.
• No invoices are generated.
• Products added to the cart in Preview Mode do not conflict with those added in normal mode.

Feature enablement

This feature is enabled by default.

Setting enablement

No setting enablement is required.

Documentation

Documentation will be updated with the release.