Has anyone figured out how to make something as simple as link that a person can use to view their cart, or go to checkout? Sometimes that little shopping cart popup on the side disappears, like if you hit the back button. Then there is no way to get back and buy the order without adding something new. I’d like something as simple as them being able to click a link on my site to get to their shopping cart.
Oh wow - someone finally built an easy app solution to build permalinks. No more copy/pasting variant id’s, discount codes, etc. @TyW
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It was you. You made that app…
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Haha.. Actually no it was me! “ZipLinks” has been approved by Shopify! It’s currently unlisted in the App Store as I would love some feedback/thoughts on the app. The permalinks feature is pretty powerful and ZipLinks can help untangle all of this. Enjoy. I’m excited to spread this around.
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Bummer. ZipLinks is compatible for Buy Button users.
Thanks @Kevin_Beard ! You are right and this is exactly what I’m working on right now! Stay tuned, should have support for that very shortly and I’ll reply right away.
Hi again @Kevin_Beard . ZipLinks should now support merchants using Shopify Lite. Thanks for the interest and would love to hear what you think:
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Great to hear that someone is trying to improve the experience through app. Good job @JAS_Technology
We started building something similar for Shopify App Dev challenge but later dropped an idea thinking it’s not really COVID-19 related in which competition was focused.
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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 0 quantity.
Add three cases of Soylent Drink Cacao
https://soylent.com/cart/update?updates[8114434703466]=3
Remove any cases of Soylent Drink Cacao from the cart
https://soylent.com/cart/update?updates[8114434703466]=0
Remove any cases of Soylent Drink Cacao from the cart and then add three cases
https://soylent.com/cart/update?updates[8114434703466]=0&updates[8114434703466]=3
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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! 
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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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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.
@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