# of products/lines in an order

We feel that it is reasonable for wholesalers placing such large orders (and yes, we have a client who does indeed need this capacity) to wait for this. We will mitigate against it with an animated progress bar.

Every other aspect of these large orders worked fine.

Frankly, I can hardly believe it! I really didn't expect to get all the way to 1000 without any timeouts or other issues.

This has been one of our biggest problems -- we've lost some of our best/biggest customers over this!!!!!  We'll try editing those arrays right away.  If this works, it could allow us to stay with Product Cart.

We have instructions built into the error message, telling them how to submit 2 separate (smaller) orders and put a note in the comments section asking us to combine them and ship them together ... but that doesn't console a business customer who has spent a few hours carefully putting together an order, and then it crashes because they just added 20 colors of one bead, pushing it well over the 100-item limit and eating their cart.

This is the maximum number of different products your customers will be able to purchase at one time, regardless of the quantity ordered for each product. In order to limit the amount of server resources used for a user session, the number is structurally limited to 100 (i.e. 100 different products added to the shopping cart). Consult the User Guide for more information.