Hello, Magento peeps!
In my previous blog post, I talked about resetting the customer password using Magento 2 API. In case you missed it, you can read it at Magento 2 API – Reset Customer Password.
Today, I will show you we can create a cart and add products. In case you are developing a new storefront or mobile app based on Magento 2, you may require using a set of Magento 2 APIs to integrate everything together. To allow the customers to add products to the cart, the client must call an API request to Magento 2 to create a cart first. In this blog post, I will guide you completely through the Magento 2 API for creating a cart and adding products to it.
So, let’s begin with the Magento 2 API – Create Cart & Add Products to Cart!
How to Create a Cart and Add Products to It Using Magento 2 API?
The API request to create a cart and add products to it in Magento 2 requires customer-level access, and therefore the client must pass the customer token to validate the request. The customer token is generated by Magento 2 after the validation of the customer’s credentials. You may love to read this blog post on Magento 2 API – Get Customer Token.
In order to add products to the cart, the client first needs to send a cart creation request to Magento 2 API. The request returns a quote ID, which can be further used to add items to the cart using Magento 2 API.
Step 1: Create a Cart Using Magento 2 API (Magento 2 REST API Get Cart Id)
In order to get the cart id using Magento 2 API, the client needs to send a POST request to the store_url/rest/default/V1/carts/mine endpoint with the customer token in the header. An example of the same is provided below.
Method: POST
URL: store_url/rest/default.V1/carts/mine
Header:
- Bearer Token: <Customer_token>
Response:
Once the customer token is validated, the API returns the quote id, which can be later used for adding or removing products from the cart using Magento 2 API.
Step 2: Add Products to Cart Using Magento 2 API
We have successfully created a cart in Magento 2, and now it’s time to add items to it. Adding items to the cart using Magento 2 REST API requires the product SKU, quantity, and quote id of the cart. The client needs to send a POST request to the store_url/rest/default/V1/carts/mine/items endpoint along with the required details in the payload and customer access token to add products to the cart using Magento 2 rest API. Let’s understand it in a better way, using an example.
Method: POST
URL: store_url/rest/V1/carts/mine/items
Header:
- Bearer Token: <Customer_token>
Body:
{ "cartItem":{
"sku": "Tshirt",
"qty": 1,
"quote_id": "51"}
}
Response:
On successful authorization of the customer token, Magento 2 responds with the following information:
{
"item_id": 81,
"sku": "Tshirt",
"qty": 1,
"name": "Tshirt",
"price": 100,
"product_type": "simple",
"quote_id": "82"
}
That’s it!
You’ve successfully created a cart and added products to it using Magento 2 API.
Conclusion
A shopping cart is one of the must-have functionalities for online stores and shopping apps. The Magento 2 API to create a cart and products to it is helpful for creating such functionalities in third-party developments based on Magento 2. I hope this blog post will help you while creating such functionalities in your third-party development. In case you still have any queries or doubts regarding Magento 2 API, feel free to comment. I will be happy to help you.
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Thanks for reading.
