Shareable Carts: Let Customers Share Their Shopping Lists

What it is

Shareable Carts is a feature that adds a shareable link to your shop's cart page, making it easy for you and your customers to share a shopping cart with products. When someone clicks the shared link, it automatically recreates the exact cart with all products and quantities intact.

How it works

When a customer adds items to their cart, a shareable link appears on the cart page. This link works like a snapshot, capturing the exact products and quantities in the cart at that moment.

• On desktop:

  Customers can click to copy the link to their clipboard

• On mobile:

  Tapping the share button opens their device's native share sheet for easy sharing across apps

Benefits for your shop

Share Cart opens up exciting possibilities for your business:

1. Recommend product sets:

   Create the perfect combination of products and share a single link instead of multiple product pages.

2. Simplified group shopping:

   Customers can easily share their potential purchases with friends, family, or anyone involved in the buying decision.

3. Enhanced marketing:

   Combine Shareable Carts with discount codes to create compelling promotional offers. Diamond plan sellers can use automatic discounts for an even smoother customer experience.

4. Quick wishlist solution:

   While not a traditional wishlist, customers can save cart configurations to revisit or share later.

Using Share Cart

1. Requirements:

   • Your shop must be using the latest version of your template

   • At least one item must be in the cart for the share link to appear

   • Works with all templates except Netizen

2. For sellers:

   • Add desired products to cart

   • Use the share link to create product bundles or recommendations

   • Include the link in your marketing materials, social media, or email newsletters or even in 1:1 communication with customers

     • Note: Buyers will have to begin checkout to be able to apply discounts or see automatic discounts apply to their cart

3. For shoppers:

   • Add products to cart

   • Click/tap the share button on the cart page

   • Share the link through their preferred method

Tips for maximum impact

• Create product bundles:

  Curate complementary products that work well together and share the cart link in your marketing materials.

• Combine with discounts:

  • Diamond plan sellers: Set up automatic discounts that apply when customers use your shared cart links

  • Platinum plan sellers: Share cart links along with promotional codes for special offers

• Streamline customer service:

  When customers ask for product recommendations, send them a pre-configured cart instead of multiple links.

Important notes

• This feature is available to all Big Cartel sellers at no additional cost.

• Cart links capture the cart state at the time of sharing. Any changes made to the cart afterward won't be reflected in previously shared links.

• The system checks for product availability and stock levels when someone uses a shared link.

• Cart links are based on product and product variant IDs. So if you remove products from your shop and re-add them, they will have a new ID and existing links will not work to add that item

Get started

Share Cart is automatically enabled for your shop if you're using a supported template. There's no setup required – it just works! Start sharing product combinations today to create a better shopping experience for your customers.

Note: Make sure you're using the latest version of your template to access this feature. The Netizen template is currently not supported.