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 @TyW will shopify publish any official docs about the cart permalink?

Thanks for this…this is partly what I’ll need. However, we are running Shopify in headless mode. This means we don’t have a store on Shopify all we use are buy-buttons. So when I use the buy-button builder I can check that it directly forwards to the checkout-page. Do something like: https://mydom…

@TyW Thanks for the article. This is something that would work really well for our unique situation because we want to introduce an additional step before checkout. The one checkout attribute that seems to be missing from here is the State/Province. How can we set that using permalinks?

Hello, Thank you for the article. However, as mentioned by the previous poster, we are not able to set the Country/Region and Province fields. How can we set this using the permalinks? Thank you! Sebastian

It seems to work using these parameters &checkout[shipping_address][country]=US&checkout[shipping_address][province]=NY Make sure the use the two-letter codes!

This is a fantastic guide, thank you. Unfortunately when I attempt to follow it I am redirected to checkout immediately with that single item. I am looking to simply add the item to the cart.

Can you do a discount and conversion tracking in the one link?

@brendonwbrown Did you find a way to add the item to the cart?

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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EbonyMaw March 23, 2020, 3:28am 7

Thanks Sebastian! That works!

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