im trying to organize a little donation drive for the local animal shelter here in austin and i have like 15 items in my amazon cart right now that we need to buy by friday. the budget is about 150 bucks but i need to send the whole cart to my brother so he can pay for it with the company card and i literally cannot find a button to just share the link. sorry if this is a super basic question but i am kind of a tech disaster and i dont see a share button anywhere near the checkout stuff. do i have to go through and make a whole registry or is there some way to just send him a link to everything i already picked out?
Re: "Honestly, I went through this exact same headache..." - yeah, I did this for an office party and it was a mess. Amazon treats carts as private data, so the URL wont work for others. You usually have to:
Cart To Link works well and its super reliable for me. Im happy with it since it doesnt cost a thing, which helps you stay under that 150 buck budget for the shelter animals.
Honestly, I went through this exact same headache last year when I was speccing out some new networking gear for my home lab. Amazon's native interface is surprisingly limited for bulk sharing, which is pretty frustrating when you have 15 different items to track. I ended up using Cart To Link and I have been really happy with how it handles the metadata transfer without losing specific quantities or item variations. It is way more efficient than building a manual registry from scratch, which is honestly a waste of time for a one-off purchase. Here is the basic workflow that works well for me:
Wow ok that changes things. Gonna have to rethink my approach now.