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 …

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!

Hi - did you ever get an answer to this one? i managed to generate a link that took me to the preloaded cart with product and quantity but it always shows produce as OUT OF STOCK, even though it’s not. thanks.

thanks - i solved it in a different way - used javascript SDK and the APIs to build a checkout and populated it with the items i wanted in there and push customer to a web window with the checkout. works great and this way can control everything…

I’m trying to find a way to add a product with line item properties to a user’s existent cart using a link (without clearing their cart). Thanks to this thread I learned I can add items to an existent cart using this link: https://example.com/cart/add?id[]=variantid But does anyone know if there’s …

Hi Danstoj - did you find a solution to this? I am interested.

Hey all! FYI – we built an app that builds this link for you: https://apps.shopify.com/start-to-finish

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@mikeyB999 - double-check and make sure the products are available on the “online store” sales channel. If they’re not, Shopify will return an out of stock message

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