A Shopify store owner is seeking an app to enable group meal ordering for their carryout/delivery food business. The desired workflow involves:
Required Features:
Original user creates a cart and generates a shareable link
Team members add their individual items to the shared cart via the link
Ability for each person to attach their name to their selections
Original user completes the final transaction
Current Status:
Despite this being common in food delivery platforms (like Lunchdrop), finding a suitable Shopify app proved difficult due to search terminology issues. “Group Orders” returns fulfillment apps, while “shared shopping cart” yields different functionality.
Recommendations Provided:
TeamCarts - Suggested as a potential solution that creates shareable links and tracks items/invitees on the backend. The original poster’s developer has concerns, but further evaluation is pending.
CrewCart - Offered as a real-time collaborative shopping app with a live demo available.
The discussion remains open as the store owner evaluates whether these apps meet their specific requirements.
Summarized with AI on October 27.
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I am looking for an App or solution recommendation. I am building a Shopify site for a carryout and delivery-only food business. We would like to offer the ability for offices, teams, etc. to create a shared order from a single link. The flow would be like this:
Original user begins the order and creates the shopping cart
Original user shares the link to that order with their team, office, etc.
Those users follow the link and add their own selections to the shared shopping cart, with the ability to add their name to their individual order
Original user completes the transaction.
This is such a common thing in the food delivery world (example: https://lunchdrop.com/) that I assumed we would be overwhelmed for choice of apps to manage this. But to my surprise, I can’t find one. But maybe I am not using the right language to search.
“Group Orders” is all apps having to do with fullfillment and shipping, and “shared shopping cart” always seems to be about sharing completed carts for other people to easily buy.
Can this be done in Shopify, app or no? Thank you for your help.
You would use an app to create a shareable link. The backend keeps track of items added to cart and the invitees (co-workers). It’s a lot of customization to match the store brand and experience you want.
Thank you very much. One of my devs reviewed this App and suggested it may not work for us, but I will dig deeper. By the app’s description, this appears to be spot on.
I’m not marking as “Solution” because I honestly don’t know yet, but this is a great start. Thank you!
Since the shopping cart is based on the browser session you need a backend to create a unique URL that maintains the items in a shopping cart. When a new shopper uses that link the cart is rebuilt and new items can be added. The cart is then saved within the app. Very simple if you know what you’re doing.