Bypass the cart and go straight to checkout for 1 product only

Shopify Discussion

Topic summary

A Shopify store owner needs gift voucher purchases to skip their cart and proceed directly to checkout, while keeping the standard cart flow for other products that require collection date/time selection via the Genie Store Pickup app.

Attempted Solutions (unsuccessful):

  • Dynamic checkout buttons: Either don’t appear or activate for all products instead of just gift vouchers
  • Cart Type settings: Must remain as ‘Page’ for the pickup app to function properly
  • App developer contacted but no solution yet

Desired Outcome:

  • Product-specific cart behavior: gift vouchers bypass cart entirely
  • Hide ‘Add to Cart’ button for gift vouchers only
  • Maintain existing cart flow for products requiring pickup scheduling

Proposed Solution:
A responder suggests customizing the product form by adding a hidden input field (<input type="hidden" name="return_to" value="/checkout/" />) or replacing the buy button with a checkout permalink. This would require theme customization work, potentially involving JavaScript modifications to the Dawn theme’s product form.

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We are currently using an app which allows customers to select a collection date and time when ordering products (we don’t currently offer delivery). We have recently added gift vouchers as a product, which obviously don’t need to be collected, so we basically need to bypass the app cart and go straight to checkout to avoid confusion. I have tried a few different ways of resolving this with no success, I’ll detail below.

  • There is nothing within the app which affects this one way or the other. I have contacted the app developer and they are looking into it, but I figured there must be a simple way of resolving this which I am missing?

  • I have enabled Dynamic checkout buttons for the product but the button doesn’t come up. I tried editing the code where this is located and it then enabled it for all products, but I only want it for the gift card product, not the other products. Even if I can get this showing, I then need to hide the Add to Cart button, but again - only for this product.

  • I tried resolving via the Cart Type in Theme Settings, but this needs to be set to ‘Page’ to allow the app to work correctly and to minimise the chance of customers not selecting a collection date or time.

I was thinking if we can either set a product specific cart type, or change the add to cart button to take customers straight to checkout for this product only, then this would resolve the issue, but I can’t seem to find how to do this?

Any advice or feedback is greatly appreciated.

Store is - https://whiskedbakery.co.uk/

The gift card product page is - https://whiskedbakery.co.uk/collections/whisked-bakery-gift-vouchers

The app is Genie Store Pickup - https://www.genieapps.xyz/store_pickup

Shopify Theme is Dawn

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Hi @wb-callum :waving_hand: :rescue_worker_s_helmet: It’s either customize the product form and possibly javascript,

,try modifying the form with this input

or replace the buy-button with a link style as a button that goes to the checkout with the link being a permalink(generally for single purchase scenarios).

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