# Best datasource for Glide & Custom cart

**URL:** <https://community.glideapps.com/t/best-datasource-for-glide-custom-cart/40497>\
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**Created:** [April 7, 2022, 2:28pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/best-datasource-for-glide-custom-cart/40497 "2022-04-07T14:28:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![Luther](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/luther/32/17929_2.png) [@Luther](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Luther)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2022, 5:05pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/best-datasource-for-glide-custom-cart/40497/2 "2022-04-07T17:05:03Z")

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This should help 👇…  
By far one of the best explanations of the Cart concept I have seen on the forum by the great @Jeff_Hager …  
I think the App can be copied also so be patient and go through the post and look under the hood. You might have to make some changes and customised it for your use case (Restaurant) but in the main, you should be okay, if you are patient to learn firstly. All the best with your venture…

> [@Shopping Cart Concept for demonstration purposes](https://community.glideapps.com/t/shopping-cart-concept-for-demonstration-purposes/33264):
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> First of all, I want to say that I’m personally not a big fan of ecommerce type apps with Glide. There’s a lot of complexity to them and everybody has a different view for how they should work. Because of that, I generally don’t give advice on how to do things with them. Glide has said that ecommerce is not the direction they are focused on and I think Glide is short on some logic and functionality to properly handle the purchase and inventory side of things. With that said, I still made an …

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