- Added `Order` and `OrderItem` models with migrations for managing orders and their details
- Created `CheckoutForm` for validating order data and customer information
- Built templates for order confirmation, checkout success, and emails (HTML and plain text)
- Added logic for email notifications upon successful order placement
- Enhanced shopping cart template with checkout panel integration
- Updated styles and JavaScript for streamlined checkout UX
- Refactored cart view to support item summaries and final totals during checkout
- Added `Cart` and `CartItem` models with migrations for managing user-specific carts and items
- Developed services for cart-related operations: adding, removing, and updating cart items
- Built specialized templates (`cart.html`) and styled them with new CSS assets (`cart.css`)
- Enabled real-time UI updates via AJAX in shopping cart interactions (`cart.js`)
- Modified header to dynamically display cart link with user authentication awareness
- Added Leaflet-based interactive map to the contacts page and integrated CSS/JS dependencies
- Expanded tests for cart functionality, item detail page cart integration, and contacts page maps
