Your cart and checkout

Pelicart fills the cart on your own store account, the same cart you see in the store’s app. It tells you what it added after each request, changes the cart when you ask, and leaves checkout to the store’s app.

What Pelicart sends back

After each request, Pelicart lists only what that request added, one message per store:

woolies · 3 items · ~R151
- 4× avocado · R60
- full cream milk 2l · R36
- free range large eggs 12 pack · R55

couldn't get: cinnamon sugar

your usual 18 eggs were out of stock so i got the 12s

How to read it:

• The total is an estimate from shelf prices, so it can miss specials and loyalty-card prices. The store weighs and prices meat and loose veg when it packs your order. Go by the store app’s total.
• “couldn’t get” means Pelicart couldn’t add the item, for example because nothing suitable was in stock or you asked for more than the store allows per order.
• A note at the end is a swap, or an item Pelicart got at another store instead.

Reply “backups” to set backups for items in your cart that don’t have one yet.

No doubling up

Pelicart checks your cart first, including items you added in the store’s app, and skips anything already there, even a different brand or size. For more, say the total you want, like “make it 3 milks”. To add a second kind too, say so, like “add oat milk as well”.

See, change or clear your cart

Ask about or change your cart in plain words:

what’s in my checkers cart?

swap the white bread for sourdough

Pelicart makes changes straight away without checking with you, even to items you added in the store’s app. If you shop at more than one store, say which one. Saying “clear my woolies cart” empties it in the store’s app too, and /new empties your default store’s cart without asking (see commands).

Checking out

Pelicart can’t check out, pay, book a slot or send a checkout link. Open the store’s app (Woolworths, Checkers Sixty60 or Pick n Pay asap!) to review, choose a slot and pay. You check out each store’s cart separately, in that store’s app. After your order arrives, see what didn’t come.

If the store’s app shows an empty cart, tell Pelicart, like “my woolies app says my cart is empty”. If Pelicart can still see your items, force-close the store’s app (swipe it away) and reopen it.