How to add a Limio Offer to Basket via a URL (purchase links)

It is possible to send your customers to a checkout or basket that is pre-populated with a specific Limio Offer. This is sometimes referred to as purchase links or deep links. These links can be used in a variety of ways external to Limio, such as external pages, Paywalls, and Abandoned Basket journeys, to provide faster checkout experiences to your customers.

There are 3 options for generating a link which will bring your customers to a pre-populated basket or checkout.

Option 1: Generate the purchase link

First, navigate to the Offer that you want the purchase link for. Click the down arrow in the top right corner, and select "Copy direct purchase URL".

The second half of the direct purchase URL will be on your clipboard.

For example, if copy the direct purchase URL from the Offer above, then my clipboard would have "/checkout?purchase=/offers2/digital". 

The "/checkout" will be populated with the checkout configuration you have on that specific offer.

Add your URL to your shop domain for a fully functional link.

If you would rather send your customers to a basket populated with that offer, replace "checkout" with your basket page: "/basket?purchase=/offers2/digital"

Known Limitation: If you have an external or external-post checkout configured on your offer, the External URL specified will continue to be used in your purchase link even if you change the checkout type back to standard. To work around this, change your External URL to /checkout.

Known Limitation: If you are using spaces in your offer name, you will need to replace the spaces in the generated purchase link to %20. For example, if you have the checkout link generated as "/checkout?purchase=/offers2/TEST TEST", you will need to change it to "/checkout?purchase=/offers2/TEST%20TEST".

Known Limitation: Offers that includes a special character in the name (for example "Limio +", "Limio & Limia", "Lîmîo") could break the generate of the purchase link. We recommend only using ISO basic Latin alphabet if you plan on using purchase links.

Option 2: Build the purchase link

You can manually build a purchase link with this syntax: 

domain + ("/checkout?" OR "/basket?") + "purchase=/offers2/" + name of offer

You can find the name of your offer by navigating to your offer in the Limio Catalog, and copying the text that comes after "offers2/" in the URL. 

For example, using the offer in the screenshot below, I could build the following purchase links: 

Checkout: https://www.domainname.com/checkout?purchase=/offers2/test%20test

Basket: https://www.domainname.com/basket?purchase=/offers2/test%20test

 

Option 3: Use labels to drive purchase link

The last option is to use labels instead of offer name to drive your purchase link. If you want to use labels, follow this syntax: 

domain + ("/checkout?" OR "/basket?") + "purchase=true&label=" + offer label ID

The offer label ID name can be found by click the down arrow in the top right corner, then clicking the Switch View option. In the JSON on the offer object, the proper offer label ID will be available under "label__limio".

For example, I could build a purchase link for the label "digital" with the following: 

Checkout: https://www.domainname.com/checkout?purchase=true&label=digital

Basket: https://www.domainname.com/basket?purchase=true&label=digital

Known limitation: If you have multiple offers under a label, this method will only select one offer. We recommend only using this method if you have one offer per country for that label.