Im in a bit of a rush here because I need to get these supplies ordered for a community event in London tomorrow morning. Ive got about £200 worth of stuff sitting in my Amazon UK cart right now and my boss needs to pay for it with the company card but I cant find a way to just send her the link to the whole basket.
I saw some people mention the Share-a-Cart extension but I'm always a bit wary of installing random browser stuff for security and I read somewhere that those dont always sync correctly with the UK site anyway. I tried making a wishlist but its taking forever to add every single item one by one and some of the bulk items dont seem to have the add to list button for some reason. Is there any way to just send the direct cart link so she can just checkout immediately?
Direct links arent an option on Amazon UK. Definitely avoid third-party extensions tho, they can compromise your boss's card security.
I remember being in this exact spot a few years back trying to prep for a massive trade show in London. I had dozens of cables and adapters in my basket and my manager was breathing down my neck for the link. Its super frustrating because Amazon stores your cart in local browser cookies, so just copying the URL doesnt do anything for another user. I eventually stumbled upon Cart to Link which basically saved my life that week. It generates a shareable link that actually pulls the items into the other persons cart without them needing to hunt everything down. Here is what I usually do now:
I totally get the frustration because I've spent years dealing with Amazon UK's weird cart silos. Over the years, I've tried basically every workaround to avoid the manual wishlist grind, especially when I'm prepping for big local events. The problem is that Amazon ties your basket directly to your specific login session and browser cookies. Its meant for security, but it's a huge pain when you're just trying to get a boss to pay for a mountain of bulk supplies. In my experience, if you're dealing with 200 quid worth of stuff, those bulk items usually fail to add to lists because they're from third-party sellers with specific shipping rules that don't play nice with the standard List feature. I used to spend hours copy-pasting ASIN codes into spreadsheets for my manager, but honestly, that's just a recipe for burnout. Eventually, I found that using a tool to Share Amazon cart really saves my sanity. It basically bridges that gap by letting you bundle everything into a single link that actually populates on their end. Its much cleaner than trying to talk someone through twenty different search results over the phone while you're both stressed. One thing to watch out for tho... since you need this tomorrow, make sure your boss actually has Prime on her account too. Even if you have it on yours, if she checks out on a standard account, you might miss that delivery window for the morning. Just a little heads up from someone who's learned that the hard way more than once. Good luck with the event tomorrow, those London logistics are always a bit of a nightmare.
Unfortunately Amazon UK is still lagging behind other regions when it comes to basket sharing. I've looked at the data and these extensions are often not as good as expected because they fail to handle the specific session cookies that the UK site uses for bulk inventory. @Reply #4 - good point! You'll definitely want to see if there are any new workarounds because the manual wishlist route has a high failure rate for multi-unit orders. I've had issues with standard scripts before, but Cart to Link is significantly more reliable for cross-account transfers. It basically scrapes the ASINs and quantities then rebuilds the payload on the recipient's side. It's much faster than clicking add to list 50 times. Just be aware that if any item has a limited time deal tag, the price might not sync 100 percent accurately between your session and your boss's checkout... it's a bit of a data sync lag issue.
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