Understand wish list features

Wish lists provide shoppers with the following:

• A way to create and manage a list of products they are considering buying. Included is the ability to save items in wish lists and purchase easily from them later.
• The ability to create and manage multiple wish lists so shoppers can better organize items they may want to purchase.
• The ability to share their wish lists.
• The opportunity for shoppers to add comments to items in their wish lists.
• A social experience where shoppers can receive feedback and suggestions from friends and family members they invite to their wish lists.
• Email notifications for key wish list-related activities.

Registered shoppers can participate in a variety of wish list activities, including:

• Creating wish lists with personalized names; the wish list privacy settings can be private, group, or shared. For more information, see Understand private, group, and shared wish list privacy settings.
• Viewing up-to-date availability, price, and associated offers for the products included in a wish list.
• Using an Add to Wish List button or selector on a product details page to choose which wish list to add the product to; at this point, a new wish list can also be created.
• Adding a product from a wish list to a shopping cart for purchase.
• Editing and deleting owned wish lists.
• As a wish list owner: creating, editing, and deleting posts and comments.
• As a wish list member: adding a comment, deleting his or her comments, and deleting product posts he or she added along with all associated comments.
• Setting the priority and quantity for each product in a wish list.
• Sorting posts by date added and priority.
• Inviting friends to be a part of a wish list to encourage collaboration and feedback, and the sharing of products and gift ideas.
• Moving product posts from one wish list to another. When moving the post, the shopper can also create a new wish list for the post.
• Sharing wish list links via Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and email.

  If the Pinterest icon is not visible on the shopper wish list pages, in the Wish List layout, upgrade to the newest version of the Wish List Header widget.

• Subscribing or unsubscribing from wish list email notification in his or her storefront My Account settings. For more information, see Enable wish list email settings.
• Adding and changing wish list owner profile pictures; the pictures are visible next to comments made by the owner or member.
• Receiving price change notifications on the product post.
• Email notifications indicating the product price in the currency chosen in the storefront.

Each shopper profile can have up to 50 wish lists. Each wish list can The number of product posts, text posts, and comments on an individual post is set to 100 per wish list.

Understand private, group, and shared wish list privacy settings

A wish list owner can choose to designate a wish list as private, group, or shared.

A private wish list is visible only to the wish list owner.

A group wish list is visible to the wish list owner and people they invite as members. Owners and members can perform the following tasks in a group wish list:

• View the wish list.
• Add products to the wish list and delete any products they added. Deleting a product post deletes all its associated comments.
• Comment, delete, and edit their comments on a wish list; in addition, owners can delete any comments.

A shared wish list can be viewed by anyone who receives a link via Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, or email. A wish list owner can share the link to any of their wish lists by clicking the Share button for Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, or email. Once a wish list is shared, anyone with the link, whether logged in or anonymous, can also view the wish list. However, only members of the wish list can view, comment, delete, and add products to the wish list.

The link to a shared wish list can be passed on in other ways (for example, via private email) to other people. Anyone with the link can view the wish list. Members’ comments on a group wish list, as well as their names, become public if the owner designates the wish list as shared. Oracle strongly recommends you add text to your Terms of Use notifying your customers about this behavior.

A wish list owner can edit the privacy mode of a wish list at any time. Changing the privacy setting from Shared or Group to Private makes the wish list viewable only by the owner.

To edit from Shared or Group to Private, the owner must first delete all members from the wish list. However, once changed to Private, the wish list content is retained. Member names are noted as being no longer a member, and a generic profile picture is displayed.

Share using email, Facebook, Pinterest, or Twitter

To accommodate social sharing on your site, do the following:

1. Click the Settings icon, then click Setup.
2. Click the URL Patterns tab.
3. This step is optional if your URL patterns are correctly configured. On the URL Patterns page, for the Product Page URL, double-click the link in the Value column to open the New Value dialog. Edit the URL pattern using the available properties.

   URL patterns let you customize the URL structure for the different types of pages on your store. Select a page type and replace the components in the default pattern with values for a new custom pattern. For more information, see Enter basic store information.

   The new value will be applied to your product details pages once you click the check mark at the top of the dialog. Click the x to cancel.

4. To add the social sharing links to your product details pages, in the administration interface, click Design.
5. Click the Select Layout tab. Click Product, and then click Product Layout.
6. Click the Grid View tab. In grid view, hover over the Product Details widget, and click the settings icon.
7. Depending on the types of social sharing you want to make available to your shoppers, add the following elements to the page:
   • To add email, Facebook, and Twitter icon links to product detail pages, add the Social Sharing element.
   • To add email, Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest icon links to the product detail pages, add the Social Sharing 2 element.
8. Save your changes

For more information, see Work with layout components.

Shoppers can share a wish list link using email, Facebook, Pinterest, or Twitter by doing the following:

1. If you have not already done so, set the privacy setting for the wish list to Shared. Make this change by doing one of the following:
   • Click the lock icon (Edit Wish List Settings) under the wish list name.
   • Click the Wish list actions arrow at the right side of the page, and click Edit.

   Privacy settings are made per wish list. Setting the privacy setting for one wish list does not affect the privacy setting for any other wish list.

2. On the right-hand side of the page across from the Wish List Owner name, click the Share by email, Share on Facebook (if available), Share on Pinterest, or Share on Twitter icon.

   If the Facebook icon is absent to your shoppers, you must add a Facebook App Id by logging into the Commerce administration interface. See Configure Facebook access and announcements for more information. To display the Pinterest icon, place the latest version of the Wish List Header widget in the Wish List layout.

3. Follow the instructions to log into the email service, Facebook, Pinterest, or Twitter to send the link.

Understand localization

Wish lists are localized as a part of the storefront localization. For more information, see Localize Your Store.