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This article is for those who has encounter problems loading Basket2go shopping carts. It explains the ways to configure internet browsers to accept cookies from Basket2go.

Basket2go shopping cart uses cookies to associate customer shopping cart id and group shopping cart items. It is required display the cart content correctly.

What is a Cookie?

A cookie is a small text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web server. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Interested readers can refer to this (Microsoft) webpage for more information regarding cookies.

How does basket2go uses cookie?

Basket2go uses cookies to store shopping cart id so that it can know what shopping cart the visitor is using and match that with the appropriate items in the cart to display the correct items that has been added to each shopping cart. In order to function properly, browsers should be configured to accept cookies from this external site: checkout.basket2go.net.

Configurating Internet Explorer to accept cookies

If you are using IE 7, you might have noticed a privacy report "eye" icon at the bottom middle-right of the page. Click on that and check whether checkout.basket2go.net is blocked. If you have blocked cookies for basket2go site, you should see a list of block sites with url http://checkout.basket2go.net. Please right click the block site (checkout.basket2go.net) and select "always accept cookies from this site". to enable cookies.

In most cases, the default privacy setting of medium to high, available from Menu > Tools > Internet Options >Privacy is adequate.

Configurating Firefox to accept cookies

For Firefox browsers, please ensure cookies are enabled in Tools > Privacy > Cookies > Accept cookies from sites, and/or checkout.basket2go.net is not blocked in the site exception list.