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 …

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

Hi everyone! I have 3 things I would like to get out of this, and I feel like I’m so close! But would love some help in this area. I want my link to: Have a discount code sitting in the cart (DONE!) Have the customer open a specific collection (DONE!) Have a product waiting in the cart (PENDING) …

Unfortunately, our app only works if you’re sending people directly to the checkout. I’m sorry I can’t be of more help, but I don’t know of an easy way to pre-populate a cart with a product.

Hello, We have previously done something similar including adding custom line item properties to the permalink, feel free to send us a PM if you would like to test our beta?

Below are some example links to do various things that have been useful for me lately. These may be a bit redundant with other posts, just putting them in one place. {These parts, including the curly brackets are placeholders.} Redirect to url and applies coupon https://domain.com/discount/{DISCO…

I’ve noticed there’s a problem collecting referrer and landing page data with the order when Permalinks are used, does anyone have a workaround? If you look at the XML or JSON for an order where the person went the “normal” route (adds to cart, then checks out), it looks like this: [shopify-normal…

Cart - Use permalinks to pre-load the cart

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Rose-from-NZ November 30, 2020, 6:01am 46

Your app looks great, can it also make the customer who gets the URL go straight to a collection (not check out). I ask this because it is hard to find a pre-loaded cart with discount AND product

Best

Rose

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