Point the shopify "buy button" to the shopify "cart" page instead of the "checkout" page

Technical Q&A

Topic summary

  • Seeks a way to have the Shopify Buy Button redirect to the Cart page instead of directly to Checkout so customers can select a preferred ship date. Asks if a script can change the Buy Button’s destination.
  • Explores alternatives: adding a ship-date selector on the Shopify Checkout page or embedding it within the Buy Button flow.
  • Current state: ship-date selection snippet works on the Cart page but not on the Checkout page.
  • No solutions or decisions yet; question remains open. Key unknowns: whether the Buy Button can be reliably redirected to Cart, and whether Checkout supports adding a ship-date field.
Summarized with AI on January 3. AI used: gpt-5.
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I’m looking to point the shopify “buy button” to the shopify “cart” page instead of the “checkout” page from our website so that our customers can select a preferred ship date, is this possible to add a script to accomplish this?

Or if there’s a way to add the select ship date on the checkout page of shopify or within the buy now button that would be awesome too. I was able to add the ship date selection snipet to the cart page, but not the checkout page.