How to add products to basket from a text link

Products are normally add to a user's shopping basket when the user clicks the 'add to basket' option.

If product variations (like sizes or colours), and/or product extras, are available on the product, then the visitor will have to select those options first before adding the item to their basket.

You may want the visitor to be able to add a product to their basket by clicking a quick link (rather than a button on the product page) and if a product has variations or options, these can be preselected for the customer.

The visitor will click a text link like 'add to your basket' or it could be an image. A good example is shown below:

Here's an example URL

http://www.yourdomainname.com/lion-t-shirt?add-to-basket&quantity=2&variation[Colour]=Green

The first part, before the query parameter, is the URL for the product. This can be obtained by going to the product on your website and copying the URL from your browser's address bar.

The part after the question mark has the following features:

• add-to-basket tells ShopWired to add the product to the basket
• quantity tells ShopWired the quantity of the product to add
• variation if the product has variations, the variations that should be selected
• choice if the product has choices, the choices that should be selected
• extras if the product has extras, the extras that should be selected
• comments allows comments to be added to the product in the order (such as customisation text)

variation[size]=small&variation[colour]=green

choice[finish]=metal&choice[feet]=walnut

extras=10103,10903