The createEmptyCart mutation creates an empty shopping cart and generates a cart ID.

For logged-in customers, send the customer’s authorization token in the Authorization parameter of the header. See “Get customer authorization token” for more information.

Request:

The following mutation creates an empty cart:

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mutation {
  createEmptyCart
}

Response:

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{
  "data": {
    "createEmptyCart": "A7jCcOmUjjCh7MxDIzu1SeqdqETqEa5h"
  }
}

In the subsequent tutorial steps, the unique shopping cart identifier A7jCcOmUjjCh7MxDIzu1SeqdqETqEa5h will be listed as { CART_ID }.

Verify this step

There are no additional verification steps. The values of quote and entity_id value are not displayed on the website or in the Magento Admin.