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So let’s say you run an e-commerce site. Someone adds a bunch of stuff to their cart. You want to remember this so that when they come back their cart is still filled in. Is that a “phantom account”?

>>thehap+(OP)
No. What are you getting at? Better to not be deliberately obscure about it.

>>thehap+(OP)
That's generally done with browser cookies. But not such a phantom account. Nowhere near the same.

>>throwa+FI1
So let’s say the company wants to save the cart, the user’s favorites, and their search preferences so when they come back it’s still there. A cookie isn’t a database. So they store that info in a DB using the cookie id as the index. Is that a phantom account? You’ve got rows in a DB for a user who never signed up.

>>thehap+ZH2
Generally when you want to save favorites, most, as far as I've used, storefronts require that you create an account before allowing those functions.

>>throwa+CM5
You can book a hotel room as a guest on many hotel sites