Caution This is an advanced tutorial and is not supported by Shopify . Knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Liquid is required. Consider hiring a Shopify Expert if you aren’t comfortable doing the steps in the tutorial. What is a cart permalink? A cart permalink takes your customers directly to …

Indeed I have! Get your variant ID as in the tutorial above and format your url as below: https://domain.com/cart/add?id[]=variantid You can add multiple products https://domain.com/cart/add?id[]=variantid&id[]=variantid&id[]=variantid

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@TyW Thanks for the helpful post. It looks like your original post uses the term “cart” in many places where it should say “checkout”. Using a permalink in the way you state: /cart/{variant_id}:{quantity} does not load anything into the cart cookie for Shopify as a user would think by reading “pr…

I’ve been able to add multiple items w. differing quantities to cart by using the below: https://groupbazaar.in/cart/update?updates[variant_id]=qty&updates[variant_id]=qty&updates[variant_id]=qty replace variant_id & qty However, the problem is that it adds these items in addition to the already …

@danstoj Did you find a way to do a discount and conversion tracking in the one link? The article says "Notes, cart attributes, and tracking parameters can be added as query parameters as usual," but it’s not working for me. For example, this adds the products & quantities to checkout, but doesn’t…

I have a similar question. I’m able to add multiple items to cart but when I append ?ref= , I dont have get this reference on order conversion. A sample URL that I’m using: https://groupbazaar.in/cart/update?updates[33826291384458]=1&updates[32056616124554]=2?ref=whatsappShare Any thoughts?

@bradlau and @ngoenka You should be using a “&” instead of another “?” in your parameters. For example, ?key1=value1&key2=value2&key3=value3 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Query_string

@JAS_Technology Semantics if we call it a bug or an oversight. Either way, something Shopify should fix this. If you’re curious why the checkout permalink described in the original post causes this read more here. https://community.shopify.com/c/Shopify-APIs-SDKs/Possible-permalinks-bug-when-pre-l…

Thanks but it doesnt help me put a ref in for conversion tracking. I even tried putting a &tags= but this doesnt add tags to the order which is generated when customers go through this link. I’ve basically created a whatsapp share message for users to send a product to their friends. The friend can…

Cart - Use permalinks to pre-load the cart

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JAS_Technology May 29, 2020, 6:45pm 16

Has anybody noticed that when you use a checkout page permalink the “cart” link at the top is still active? When clicked it just goes to a blank cart. I feel like this is a checkout bug right?

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