The Cart is where you temporarily store your imagery orders—whether they’re single tasking, archive items, or recurring captures—before finalizing and placing them. Think of it like an online shopping cart: you add items you’re interested in, review them, and proceed to checkout when you’re ready.

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Why a Cart?

  • Convenience: You can add multiple orders or image strips (from tasking or archives) to your cart, compare costs, and finalize everything in one go.
  • Draft Stage: Items in your cart remain in “draft” status until you actually check out. This means you can freely modify, remove, or add more items before paying.

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How to Add Items to the Cart

  1. Order Creation (Tasking or Archive):
    • After specifying your Area of Interest (AOI) and other parameters (like off-nadir angle, cloud cover, etc.), click “Add to Cart”.
    • For archive items, once you select an image strip you want to purchase, you’ll see an “Add to Cart” option as well.
  2. Review Feasibility (Tasking Only):
    • For tasking orders, you might see a “Check Feasibility” button before adding to cart. If the system deems your capture feasible (based on cloud cover, off-nadir, scheduling), you can then add it to the cart.
  3. Multiple Items:
    • You can repeat this process to add multiple single tasking orders, archived strips, or recurring orders.
Cart is a user level feature i.e. If you have added a few orders to the cart, your colleague who is a part of the organization and same project too, won’t be able to see those orders.

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Inside the Cart

Once items are in the cart:
  • Draft Status:
    All cart items are considered “draft” orders. You can:
    • Modify an item’s parameters (like changing the AOI or cloud cover setting).
    • Remove items you no longer want.
  • Feasibility Window:
    The Feasibility check is generally valid upto 6 hours. If the order was added to cart when it was feasible, it is possible that it may become unfeasible after 6 hours and then you will not be able to place the order from the cart.
  • Cost Summary:
    You’ll see a total cost or token requirement for the items in your cart, including any price uplifts for expedited delivery or lower cloud cover.

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Checking Out

When you’re satisfied with everything in your cart:
  1. Click “Checkout”:
    The system will confirm feasibility (for tasking) and availability (for archives) for all items in your cart.
  2. Payment:
    The required tokens will be deducted from your wallet. If there are not enough tokens in your wallet, you can add more from the cart screen only.
  3. Order Creation:
    • Once payment is successful, each item in the cart is converted into an Order (or part of a combined order if you have multiple items).
Once order has passed the feasibility check and is paid for, you will recieve a notification on both email and notification center which says that “Order Successfully Created”.

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Common Cart Scenarios

  • Single Tasking/Archive:
    If you only have one item in your cart, you’ll finalize that as a single order upon checkout.
  • Recurring Orders:
    You might add a recurring tasking order to the cart alongside single orders or archive items. Each becomes its own order after checkout.
  • Modifications or Deletions:
    Need to change the AOI or remove an item? No worries—just edit or remove items from the cart before checking out.