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 …

I had couple more use cases in mind though. I think ~30% code is written so will try to build something if time permits. Keep up the good work!

Hi @ngoenka I found a solution to make sure you clear their cart first of the items that you are trying to add so that you don’t just increase quantity of items already there (if they view in the same browser). All you need to do is put the variant in your URL twice with the first instance being for…

This is great, thanks! I’ve actually implemented a share cart feature so that users can share this via Whatsapp. Now I just need to integrate a URL shortener as otherwise the share links are massive! Any thoughts / recos for that?

Hey @ngoenka , are you using any public app to share cart via Whatsapp or it’s a custom implementation? App you are using would need to integrate with URL shortener APIs (Ex. Bitly) in that case if you wish to shorten a URL further.

Hi there @ngoenka . Just FYI. ZipLinks has been updated to allow for the optional emptying of a customer’s cart prior to adding the configured items on a link. Check it out: https://apps.shopify.com/permalinks Enjoy and share! :slightly_smiling_face:

Hi I want to pre fill state field in checkout, how it can be done?

its not working, cannot pre fill state

Yes, your second parameter need to have a & not ? /cart/{variant_id}:{quantity},{variant_id}:{quantity}?discount=discountName&ref=email@domain.com

@cosmon - take a look at the app we recently developed called ZipLinks. It will build permalinks for you and will remove the hassle of building permalinks. Here’s a link to the app page to install: https://apps.shopify.com/permalinks Hope this helps!

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@ngoenka @Jesse_Meyers You can clear the cart and do a parameter based redirect with return_to

try this https://soylent.com/cart/clear?return_to=/cart/update?updates[8114434703466]=2

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