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 …

Nice hack. It works. It lands on the cart page instead of checkout page. Here’s a wiki of manipulating permalinks in Shopify : Permalink with some products, quality, addresses, email and a discount code (disc to be created beforehand) → Land on checkout page https://xyz.myshopify.com/cart/3741517…

Something people asked for earlier, and something I want, is to simply add the item to the cart but do not take the user off the current page. Anyone have any ideas?

Hmm.. I missed it. But what would be a good use case?

The use case, in my case anyway, would be to let people add multiple items without needing to go back and forth to the cart. I have a list of 2,000 digital song downloads and people usually want to buy between 10-100 at a time. I don’t want them to go to the cart after each selection.

Hi Bhuvanesh_Mille, what I believe you’re looking for is the Shopify Ajax API . The links discussed in this thread are for use outside of a Shopify site (from an email for example) to direct someone back to your site and add items to the cart at the same time. Once a customer is already on the site t…

Thank you. I came to the same conclusion after found this thread on ‘ add to basket instead of creating cart ’. My question is, can it be used for customize the cart page such as adding ‘Save Cart’ button or adding a checkbox to user agreement etc?

Can permalink attributes be used to pre-load the cart with subscription/plan products? There’s an option to include a product variant id, but can we include a plan id?

Has this permalink solution stopped working? Can’t get any URLs, including simplest version to work… eg https://heybookhound.myshopify.com/cart/6580131201179:1 Just goes to “Something went wrong” page. I grabbed the product code from admin view URL of product… Any advice greatly appreciated, t…

@Proudly try these URL’s. They worked for me on your site. https://bookhound.com/cart/update?updates[39409953865883]=1 or https://bookhound.com/cart/add/39409953865883 or https://bookhound.com/cart/39409953865883:1

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Bhuvanesh_Mille January 30, 2021, 7:52am 58

Thanks! I thought I was missing something.

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