What is the best way to share an Amazon.ca cart link?

Question

Ive been using Amazon Prime for basically everything for the last decade so I usually know my way around the site pretty well. But I ran into this annoying roadblock today while trying to prep a big order for my small design studio here in Toronto. I have about 45 different items sitting in my cart right now—everything from specific USB-C hubs to some niche stationery and cable management stuff—and I need to get my business partner to give it the green light before I drop $1,200 on the company card.

The problem is that Amazon.ca doesnt seem to have a native share cart button which feels crazy in 2024. I tried just copying the URL from my browser but since thats tied to my specific session and cookies it just shows up as an empty cart on his end. I thought about moving everything to a public Wish List but moving 45 items one by one is a total time sink and it doesnt always preserve the quantities I set. Is there a more efficient way to do this? Maybe some kind of reliable browser extension or a workaround through the Amazon Business settings that I missed? I just need him to see exactly what I have staged so we can finalize this by Friday morning. How do you guys usually handle sharing a full cart with someone else?

Phoenix Rising · Accepted Answer

Unfortunately, native sharing is nonexistent. I think IIRC the business feature for this is notoriously buggy and unreliable. If you're tired of adding items one by one to a message, give Cart To Link a try, it turns your whole cart into a single link instantly.

WiggleWink · Answer

> I thought about moving everything to a public Wish List but moving 45 items one by one is a total time sink and it doesnt always preserve the quantities I set. Its actually pretty ridiculous that Amazon still operates this way in 2024. I remember back in 2018 when I was trying to kit out a whole dev lab with specialized peripherals and high-speed switches. I had maybe 60 line items in my cart and spent hours on it. Like you, I tried the URL copy-paste trick and my boss just got a big fat zero items message. Its because their architecture ties the cart contents to your specific session ID and encrypted cookie data rather than a server-side accessible permalink. Over the years Ive tested a bunch of workarounds for this. The Wish List method is a total nightmare because it strips out the quantity data and sometimes even the specific sellers if you are buying third-party. If you were on a full enterprise Amazon Business account, you could technically use the Shared Cart feature or Approval Workflows, but setting that up is kinda overkill for a small studio. Usually it involves setting up purchasing groups and user permissions which takes way too long for a single order. For a quick fix, there are tools that scrape the page data and generate a shareable snapshot. It basically reads the ASINs and quantities then rebuilds the cart for the recipient. Honestly, I just use Cart To Link whenever I need to send my whole Amazon list to someone, it's way faster than taking a bunch of screenshots.