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Is there an easy way to make "Add to Cart" buttons on my website? I want to have a button on my non-store website that will add a product to the customer's cart and take them to the checkout page.
Yes, this is easily done. The store automatically creates a series of links for each product, which you can use on any website. This set of links, which we call QuickLinks™, can be used on any website. Each QuickLink has a different behavior. They can be used to do various things, such as add products to your customer's basket, start the checkout process, etc.
Locating a product's QuickLinks
The QuickLinks for each product are available on the Search Products page in your store's Administration Area. The Search Products page is located in the Products section of your store's administration area.
On the Search Products page, you will find a list of all the products in your store. There are several options available for each product listed. Click the QuickLinks link to open a popup window that contains the links available for that product. (See Figure 1.) The popup window will list all of the QuickLinks available for the selected product.
Figure 1: Clicking the QuickLink link will open a popup window listing all of the QuickLinks links available for that product.
The types of QuickLinks that are available
Several different QuickLinks are available. Following is a list of each link, and what it does.
quick basket
Use Quick Basket links to automatically add the product to the customer's order, and send them to your store's My Basket page, where they can review the contents of their order before proceeding to checkout.
Quick Basket links can be used on any website. Wherever it is used, it will invisibly add the product to the customer's basket, and then load your store's My Basket page.
The Quick Basket link is formatted like this:
http://www.my-store-url.com/quick_basket.php?id1=X&qty1=Y
In the example above, replace X with the product's System ID number, and Y with the quantity of the product to be added to the customer's basket.
quick checkout
Use Quick Checkout links to automatically add the product to the customer's basket, and send them to your store's Checkout page.
Quick Checkout links can be used on any website. Wherever it is used, it will invisibly add the product to the customer's basket, and then load the appropriate first step of your store's checkout process.
The Quick Checkout link is formatted like this:
http://www.my-store-url.com/quick_checkout.php?id1=X&qty1=Y
In the example above, replace X with the product's System ID number, and Y with the quantity of the product to be added to the customer's basket.
quick return
Use Quick Return links to invisibly add the product to the customer's basket, and instantly return them to the webpage containing the link. (To the customer, it will seem like they never left the page.)
Quick Return links below can be used on any website. However, if the Quick Return link is used on a website under a different domain name (for example: www.not-my-store-website.com), it requires the customer to have cookies to be enabled. Otherwise, the product may not be added to the customer's basket.
The Quick Return link is formatted like this:
http://www.my-store-url.com/quick_return.php?id1=X&qty1=Y
In the example above, replace X with the product's System ID number, and Y with the quantity of the product to be added to the customer's basket.
quick location
Use Quick Location links to invisibly add the product to the customer's basket, and then send them to any webpage you specify.
The link below can be used on any website. Wherever it is used, it will add the product to the customer's basket and then load the URL specified by the "loc" variable.
Important: If the Quick Location link is used on a website under a different domain name (example: www.not-my-store-website.com), it requires the customer to have cookies to be enabled. Otherwise, the product may not be added to the customer's basket.
The Quick Location link is formatted like this:
http://www.my-store-url.com/quick_location.php?id1=X&qty1=Y&loc=http://www.mylocation.com/page.html
In the example above, replace X with the product's System ID number, Y with the quantity of the product to be added to the customer's basket, and "http://www.mylocation.com/page.html" with the web address the customer will be taken to when they click the link.
Adding multiple products to an order using a QuickLink
To add multiple products to the customer's basket with a single link, simply add more "id" and "qty" variables to the link.
adding multiple products using a quicklink
The link below will add seven units of product SID 101, eight units of product SID 202, and then automatically load my store's Checkout area:
http://www.my-store-url.com/quick_checkout.php?id1=101&qty1=7&id2=202&qty2=8
You can add as many products as you like with a single QuickLink.
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