"The goal is always to create the most seamless, straightforward route to purchase for your customers."
The Quick Checkout Link feature allows you to generate a URL that takes customers directly to your store's checkout page, with specific products already added to the checkout. This streamlined process not only enhances your customer's shopping experience but can also boost your conversion rates significantly. This article provides an overview of how to set up a Direct Checkout Link in Subify.
Click on this Quick Checkout link of our demo store to understand how it works:
-The Password is 1234. Click again on the link after logging into the store-
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What is the benefit of using Quick Checkout Links?
As e-commerce continues to evolve, merchants are always seeking innovative ways to simplify and enhance their customers' shopping experience. Quick Checkout Links can streamline your checkout process, amplify your marketing efforts across various platforms, and provide a unique, personalized shopping experience for your customers. The goal is always to create the most seamless, straightforward route to purchase for your customers.
Here are some most common use cases of Quick Checkout Links:
Designing Subscription Landings
Quick Checkout Links can revolutionize the way you design your subscription landing pages. Imagine your customers clicking on a promotional banner and landing directly on a checkout page with the promoted subscription already in their cart. This seamless experience can cut down any friction or confusion, leading to increased conversion and improved customer satisfaction.
Promoting Subscriptions Across Platforms
The versatility of Quick Checkout Links allows you to promote subscriptions through different platforms seamlessly. Whether it's through ads, blogs, banners, your home page, or even emails, these links provide a smooth transition from any platform directly to your checkout page. This means no matter where your customers find you; they're only a click away from purchasing your subscription product.
Increasing Conversion Rates
By eliminating additional navigation and clicks, Quick Checkout Links can significantly boost your subscription conversion rates. Research has shown that a simplified checkout process can increase conversions by up to 35%. The fewer steps a customer has to take, the more likely they are to complete their purchase.
Customizing Subscription Widgets
For merchants who have coding knowledge, Quick Checkout Links provide an opportunity to get creative. You can design and code your own subscription widgets that suit your store's aesthetics and link directly to your checkout page. This level of customization offers an unmatched shopping experience for your customers.
Creating Product Recommendation Quizzes
Quick Checkout Links can also be leveraged to create quizzes that guide your customers to their ideal subscription product. A series of simple, yet effective questions can steer customers toward the product that best suits their needs or preferences, and a quick checkout link can finalize their purchase in an instant. This personalized approach can significantly increase customer satisfaction and loyalty.
Create Post-Purchase Upsell Offers Using Quick Checkout Links
You can create a Quick Checkout Link for an upsell subscription product and incorporate this link in your post-purchase "Thank You" page, order confirmation email, or even a follow-up email. For instance, if a customer has purchased a set of organic skincare products from your store, you could offer them a recurring monthly subscription to replenish their skincare items.
Create Subscription boxes
By adding multiple products to one Quick Checkout link, you can create one united link for the customer to purchase a subscription box! You can then create a seamless landing for your subscription box, and use your subscription box Quick Checkout link to add all of the products of the box into the cart of the customer with its frequency, just through one click!
Click on this sample subscription box quick checkout link from our demo store to better understand how it works:
-The Password is 1234. Click again on the link after logging into the store-
Create Subscription Bundles
Same as a subscription box, you can create a subscription bundle by adding multiple subscriptions and one-time products to one Quick Checkout link, and create one united link for the customer to purchase a bundle of subscription products with a discount code automatically applied to the cart!
You can then create a seamless landing for your subscription bundles and add your subscription bundle Quick Checkout links to your call-to-actions (buttons).
How to create a Quick Checkout link?
Please note that Quick Checkout Links do not use current product data. If your product is updated (ie. frequency), the direct link should be updated to reflect the changes.
To generate a direct link to checkout, please follow these steps:
From your Subify app panel, go to Settings tab > Quick Checkout link.
Click on Add Product.
Choose the products or product variants you want to to the checkout by this link.
Click on Add.
Select the Quantity and Selling plan for each of the products.
(You need to define when the customer clicks on this link, how many of these products you want in the customer's cart, and in what frequency you want the customer to purchase this product?)If you want to apply a discount to the selected products in the link, click on "Apply discount code at checkout." The discount will be automatically applied to the selected products in the link at the checkout.
Make sure you use a one-word discount code without any spaces to avoid any errors in the checkout.
If the products have subscription selling plans, you need to add a Shopify Discount code that can be applied to subscription purchases.
How to create a Shopify discount code for subscription purchases
Click on Re-generate Link.
View your link by clicking on the eye icon next to the generated link.
Copy your link and share it with your customers!
To Generate more links, simply change the products and their fields. Deleting the products and creating new quick checkout links won't expire your previous links.
How to create a subscription box with quick checkout links?
If it's important to you to track the quantity of the products in your subscription box, you can use Quick Checkout Links to create your subscription box. Follow these steps:
First, you need to add similar selling plans to the individual products in your subscription box.
(If you don't want to sell individual products as a subscription, you can create a copy of the products in your subscription box and create the subscription plans for the copies, and remove these copy products from your collections so that they don't get recognized on your store)
How to remove my active subscription products from my store so my customers can't see them?Then create a Quick Checkout Link and add all the products of your subscription box to the link.
(if you want to have multiple frequencies for your subscription box, you need to add all the products with the same frequency to one Quick Checkout Link and create separate Links for each frequency.)Now you can create a landing for your subscription box on your store and add these links to your call-to-actions(buttons). Or share your subscription box's link in your upselling or promotional emails.
Click on this sample subscription box quick checkout link from our demo store to better understand how it works:
-The Password is 1234. Click again on the link after logging into the store-
How to create subscription bundles with quick checkout links?
You can use Quick Checkout Links to create subscription bundles. Follow these steps:
First, you need to add similar selling plans(subscription frequencies) to the individual products of your subscription bundle.
(If you don't want to sell individual products as a subscription, you can create a copy of the products that are in your bundle and create the subscription plans for the copies, and remove these copy products from your collections so that they don't get recognized on your store)
How to remove my active subscription products from my store, so my customers can't see them?Then create a Quick Checkout Link and add all the products that you want to have in your bundle to one link.
(if you want to have multiple frequencies for your subscription bundles, you need to add all the products with the same frequency to one Quick Checkout Link and create separate Links for each frequency.)Add a Shopify discount code to your bundle link:
Make sure you use a one-word discount code without any spaces to avoid any errors in the checkout.
The discount will be automatically applied to the checkout, just make sure the discount can be applied to subscription purchases.
How to create a Shopify discount code for subscription purchases
Now you can create a landing on your store and add these links to your call-to-actions(buttons). Or share these bundles in your upselling or promotional emails.
Click on this Quick Checkout link subscription bundle from our demo store to understand how it works:
-The Password is 1234. Click again on the link after logging into the store-
How to create a Fixed Volume discount subscription bundle with Quick Checkout Links?
You can use Quick Checkout Links to create volume discount subscription bundles. Follow these steps:
First, you need to add similar selling plans(subscription frequencies) to the product that you want to offer a volume discount bundle on it.
(If you don't want to sell the individual product as a subscription, you can create a copy of your product that is in your bundle and create the subscription plan for the copy product and remove it from your collections so that it doesn't get recognized on your store)
How to remove my active subscription products from my store, so my customers can't see them?Then create a Quick Checkout Link and add the product that you want to have in your volume discount bundle to the link.
(if you want to have multiple frequencies for your bundle, you need to create separate Links for each frequency.)Set the quantity of the product to your preferred volume.
(if you want to have multiple bundles with different quantities, you need to create separate Links for each volume.)Add a Shopify discount code to your bundle link:
Make sure you use a one-word discount code without any spaces to avoid any errors in the checkout.
The discount will be automatically applied to the checkout, just make sure the discount can be applied to subscription purchases.
How to create a Shopify discount code for subscription purchases
Now you can add these links to your call-to-actions(buttons) on a product page, or a specific landing on your store created for your bundles. You can also share the link of your volume discount subscription bundles in your upselling or promotional emails.
Click on this Quick Checkout link volume discount bundle from our demo store to understand how it works:
-The Password is 1234. Click again on the link after logging into the store-
Why am I Getting an Error When I Click on my Quick Checkout Link?
If Shopify returns an error (400, 422) when you click on your Quick Checkout Link, it could be caused by a few different issues. This could be because:
The product(s) is out of stock,
The product(s) doesn't exist in your Shopify store anymore.
The product(s) is in draft mode.
To prevent customers from encountering a blank screen in the event of an error, Shopify displays an error message on the page and offers a link that redirects to the store's main page. This allows customers to continue exploring the site.