Would a retail business want the inventory to decrement just because users put items into carts that get abandoned? Seems like that would really mess things up more in the long run.
I know this would add complexity, but I wonder if they could train a model to predict the odds of a given cart being abandoned. I'm a data scientist. I bet there are at least a few situations where you could be confident that someone was going to complete a sale.
Yes. You decrement for a few minutes then release if there's no purchase in time. Airlines figured out how to do this a very long time ago.
Except airlines, literally oversell flights all the time, and the context of my response was to preventing oversale.
An unconfirmed payment might also refer to a credit card charge that is 99% guaranteed to go through but hasn’t completed yet