Create cart permalinks

In this tutorial, you'll learn how to do the following tasks:

• Create cart permalinks
• Modify the checkout
• Attribute an order to your sales channel
• Apply discounts
• Add conversion tracking information
• Redirect customers to the Online Store cart instead of checkout

You have a sales channel app from which you want to link directly to a merchant's checkout or their online store cart. You want your link to pre-load the cart with two specific products.

Add product variant IDs and quantities to the shop URL.

The following example adds one each of two products to the cart by specifying the product variant IDs (70881412 and 70881382) with a quantity of one (1):

You can append checkout query parameters to the cart permalink URL.

The following example includes [email] and [shipping_address] as the checkout fields. [shipping_address][city] shows how you can use nesting to populate child fields.

To attribute an order to a sales channel, you can add a storefront access token as an additional parameter to the permalink. Merchants can view sales attributions in the Sales by Channel report, which shows the name of the channel that the customer used to place the order. Sales attributions also appear on the sidebar in the Shopify admin.

You can specify a storefront access token in the cart permalink as shown in the following example:

You can append a discount query parameter to apply discounts in the cart permalink URL, as shown in the following example:

You can also append multiple discounts in the cart permalink URL, separated by a comma ,:

If you want to add conversion tracking information, then you can append one of the following query parameters to the cart permalink:

• note
• attributes
• ref

You can add multiple attributes parameters. note and attributes parameters will display in the Notes section on the order details page. The ref parameter will display as a referral code in the Conversion summary section on the details page.

If you want the cart permalink to redirect customers to the Online Store cart instead of the checkout page, then you can append the storefront query parameter in the cart permalink URL:

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