How to use Buy Now links

Buy Now links make it easier for you to convert your marketing campaigns into sales

Why use them?

Buy Now links are links that YOU can create to amp up your sales and your clients' shopping experience. They can help you...

  • Increase the chance of your clients actually making their purchase
  • Increase the frequency with which your clients place orders
  • Increase customer satisfaction with your store buying experience

Here's an example.

Dr. Pam is creating an online course with a training about swapping out healthier products in everyday life.

She creates a follow up PDF about her favorite clean coffee, Brain Bean Coffee, and wants to make sure she drops her clients into a cart with Brain Bean Coffee in the cart.

She creates a Buy Now link for Brain Bean Coffee and copies this link into her PDF.

 

Get Started

You can drop your client in the cart when they're ready to buy. And you can provide directions about what you want to go into their cart, down to automatic coupon codes, subscriptions and quantities of items.

 

1. STANDARD

Standard links allow you to drop ONE item in the cart automatically.

     STEP 1: Grab your store link & the SKU name of the product

EX: https://shop.longstretchwellness.com/

SKU Name can be found in your store's catalog

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     STEP 2: Add "/sales/buynow/?sku=" + the name of the SKU

Generally the format should look like this...

[yourstoreURL]/sales/buynow/?sku=[SKUname]

 

2. COUPON CODE

Want to automatically apply a coupon code for a client so they don't have to? Use a coupon code Buy Now link.

Grab your store link + the SKU name of the product + &coupon=the coupon code name

This example drops the client into the cart with FIRST10 applied to the SKU specified.

3. MULTIPLE QUANTITY

Is your client buying a water filter for their whole family? Add more than one item to a client's cart through this Quantity Buy Now link.

Grab your store link + the SKU name of the product + &qty=

4. SUBSCRIPTION

Need to set someone up on a subscription quickly? Link them to the cart with the products already set to a subscription. 

Grab your store link + the SKU name of the product + &autoship=

 

 

 

5. BUNDLES / MULTIPLE SKUS

If you want to drop more than one item in the cart and land your client into the cart with these items, use the bundle Buy Now link options.

Add as many SKU names as you want to the end of the URL separated by a comma (no spaces).

 

CUSTOMIZE YOUR BUY NOW LINKS

Combine different conditions to create a multifaceted cart.

Simply add "&" and the command you want to include in the link. 

EX: I want to create a link with multiple items in the cart, and apply a coupon code.

  • https://shop.longstretchwellness.com/sales/buynow?sku=BB16&qty=3&coupon=FIRST10

 

Below is an example of a program page that utilizes Customized Buy Now linking to add both a quantity of two and a discount to the cart in just one click.

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