"Save for Later" Option in Steam Cart

[ROGUE]

Much like the "Save for Later" option featured on Amazon's and Ebay's carts, this feature would allow you to add items to your cart that you intend to purchase but might not want to purchase at this exact moment.

I find it a very helpful feature on other services and I would imagine Steam would benefit from this too.

[Anmheda]

But they already have the wishlist. I just add games I wanna buy later to my wishlist.

[BJWyler]

This is pretty much what the wishlist is for, bub.

[BigDicJess]

I'm with the other people, unless you can point out something that this new feature could do that wishlist cannot.

[Zach Fett]

Originally posted by BigDicJess:

I'm with the other people, unless you can point out something that this new feature could do that wishlist cannot.

Would be extremely useful for people who have big wishlists (I use mine to keep track of upcoming games/early access games that aren't ready yet, and there's a lot of them).

I mean, Amazon has both a wishlist and save for later function. Quite a few web stores do. One is for keeping an eye on/something you want down the road, the other is "I'll buy it soon but first I want to check out with the other items I have in my cart."

[ໂ‧͡‧̫ໃ]

I've just come to this! I hoped there was already a suggestion for it.

A Save for Later feature is entirely different from the features of a Wishlist.

OP's Amazon example is a great one. When you shop, even if you don't have a big wishlist, sometimes you want to make separate purchases within your shopping cart in the moment.

Esp with Steam, since if you want to refund things it's harder to do individual refunds (the last time I checked, this may have changed), it's easier to break down purchases for certain products at times if you're unsure. It makes keeping track of any purchases/refunds etc much more streamlined/easier as well.

Another example, and the reason I'm here: I was just looking at my shopping cart and thinking, 'I have enough to buy this 1 dollar game to play right now, but I have a bunch of stuff in my cart for the summer sale so I can't."

So I'm stuck not buying it to play immediately as I would have to write down everything I have in my shopping cart, remove it, and add it again after purchasing that one game.

A lot of online stores have this function cos it actually facilitates sales much better. So, it's not just a handy feature for customers. Just this moment, I decided not to buy something because I simply didn't have an efficient way to go about it.

As already mentioned by OP, it's not feasible if you have big wishlists. I have over 800 games wishlisted with intent to purchase, and it's unrealistic to use a wishlist the same way as a Save for Later feature in the Shopping Cart. Either way, that's not even the intended purpose of a wishlist (we just use it like that when we have few items in the wishlist) and again, a Save for Later feature is entirely different to a Wishlist.

Amazon offers Wishlist categories and even then it's much more streamlined to use Save for Later in certain situations. Adding more flexibility and accessibility within the actual Shopping Cart with a "Save for Later" would be an amazing update to Steam's shopping cart.

[SpiffingExaggeration42]

It was there then they deleted it the other day.

[Start_Running]

Originally posted by ROGUE:

Much like the "Save for Later" option featured on Amazon's and Ebay's carts, this feature would allow you to add items to your cart that you intend to purchase but might not want to purchase at this exact moment.

I find it a very helpful feature on other services and I would imagine Steam would benefit from this too.

You know.. I could get some use out of such a feature.
Because once your wishlist gets past a 100..yeah you need a shortlist for your shortlist.