diff --git a/client/tokenized-payment-request/cart-api.js b/client/tokenized-payment-request/cart-api.js
index 4f1e90e42c3..24603fc5132 100644
--- a/client/tokenized-payment-request/cart-api.js
+++ b/client/tokenized-payment-request/cart-api.js
@@ -103,14 +103,14 @@ export default class PaymentRequestCartApi {
 	 *
 	 * @return {Promise} Cart response object.
 	 */
-	async createAnonymousCart() {
+	async createSeparateCart() {
 		const response = await this._request( {
 			method: 'GET',
 			path: '/wc/store/v1/cart',
 			// parse: false to ensure we can get the response headers
 			parse: false,
 			headers: {
-				// sending an empty value, so that the custom session handler is leveraged.
+				// sending an empty value, so that the custom session handler is leveraged to create a separate cart.
 				'X-WooPayments-Tokenized-Cart-Session': '',
 			},
 		} );
diff --git a/client/tokenized-payment-request/payment-request.js b/client/tokenized-payment-request/payment-request.js
index 00b48f68df3..5e1d0c10d49 100644
--- a/client/tokenized-payment-request/payment-request.js
+++ b/client/tokenized-payment-request/payment-request.js
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ export default class WooPaymentsPaymentRequest {
 		// so that we don't affect the products in the main cart.
 		// On cart, checkout, place order pages we instead use the cart itself.
 		if ( getPaymentRequestData( 'button_context' ) === 'product' ) {
-			await this.paymentRequestCartApi.createAnonymousCart();
+			await this.paymentRequestCartApi.createSeparateCart();
 		}
 
 		const paymentRequestButton = this.wcpayApi
@@ -432,7 +432,7 @@ export default class WooPaymentsPaymentRequest {
 		// to avoid scenarios where the stock for a product with limited (or low) availability is added to the cart,
 		// preventing other customers from purchasing.
 		const temporaryCart = new PaymentRequestCartApi();
-		await temporaryCart.createAnonymousCart();
+		await temporaryCart.createSeparateCart();
 
 		const cartData = await temporaryCart.addProductToCart();
 
diff --git a/client/tokenized-payment-request/test/cart-api.test.js b/client/tokenized-payment-request/test/cart-api.test.js
index d4dca34dc62..9972e79af9e 100644
--- a/client/tokenized-payment-request/test/cart-api.test.js
+++ b/client/tokenized-payment-request/test/cart-api.test.js
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ describe( 'PaymentRequestCartApi', () => {
 		const api = new PaymentRequestCartApi();
 		const anotherApi = new PaymentRequestCartApi();
 
-		await api.createAnonymousCart();
+		await api.createSeparateCart();
 
 		expect( apiFetch ).toHaveBeenCalledWith(
 			expect.objectContaining( {