Orbital Cart CMS
A collaborative B2B shopping cart designed for teams to review and approve purchases before checkout.
Orbital Cart is an idea for a shared purchasing system designed for B2B teams that need approval before spending. Instead of a traditional shopping cart owned by one person, items move through a lightweight approval workflow where team members can comment, review, and approve purchases before checkout.
The goal was to explore how a shopping cart could work more like a shared workspace, similar to Google Docs, instead of a personal shopping basket.
Role: Product Designer
Scope: System concept, user flows, interaction states, low-fidelity wireframes
Tools: Figma
Timeline: ~2 weeks
The Problem
Most ecommerce carts are built for one person making the purchase.
Orbital Cart wonders what it would look like if a cart supported team purchasing, with items that can be discussed, reviewed, and approved before checkout.
Core Idea
Items move through three clear states.
• Proposed – Item added and awaiting review
• Approved – Item cleared for purchase
• Rejected – Item requires revision
Checkout remains disabled until required approvals are complete.
Item Review Interaction
Approvers can expand an item to review details, discuss the purchase, and approve or reject it directly in the cart.
This keeps decision-making tied to the item instead of scattered across external tools.
Roles and Permissions
Teams often have different responsibilities in purchasing decisions.
Orbital Cart supports this with simple role-based permissions.
• Buyers add items and participate in discussion
• Budget owners review item purchases
• Purchase approvers authorize final checkout
Reflection
This project explores how a shopping cart could work for teams instead of just individual buyers.
The goal was to keep the workflow simple while still showing who proposed, discussed, and approved each purchase.
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