You can definitely use the basket for storing wishlists. What you can do is use the object model to create a new basket. If you leave the basketid blank for your wish list the default basket will be unaffected and you're free to do whatever you want with the basket.

Using dynamic order properties you can let your customers set a wish list name or even do groups if that's required.

You'll need a way to tie the basket to a customer. What you can do is create a customer object to match the current customer and link that to the member profile for the currently logged in user.

The following pseudo code should help you along. I'm using EntitiesV2 for this one:

// Assuming that a member is logged on and a customer exists for that member 
var customer =    Customer.All().Single(x => x.UmbracoMemberId == Member.CurrentMemberId());  

var basket = new PurchaseOrder();
basket.ProductCatalogGroup = ProductCatalogGroup.All().First(); // use any catalog group
basket.Currency = basket.ProductCatalogGroup.Currency;
basket.OrderStatus = OrderStatus.All().Single(x => x.Name == "Basket");
basket.Save();

Thanks - that is very helpful.

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