So I've been using Amazon Prime for literally a decade and never needed to do this until now. I'm organizing a last minute housewarming party for my cousin this Saturday in Chicago and I've got like 15 items sitting in my cart right now - decorations, snacks, and some lighting stuff.
My sister is the one actually paying for the supplies though and I need to get this whole list over to her account ASAP so she can just checkout. I looked for a share button or some kind of link but I dont see anything obvious in the UI. Is there a way to just send the whole cart contents to another user without making a public wishlist or am I gonna have to copy-paste every single link one by one?
> I looked for a share button or some kind of link but I dont see anything obvious in the UI. Is there a way to just send the whole cart contents to another user Honestly, there is no native share button because Amazon treats the cart as a transient session state tied strictly to your account ID and local cookies. Its basically a private database entry that isnt designed for external access. You basically have two solid technical workarounds here. The most stable way is to move everything to a List. You dont have to make it public. Just set it to Shared and it generates a unique tokenized URL. When your sister opens it, she can hit Add all to cart with one click. I use this method for office supplies monthly and it handles the ASIN metadata perfectly. The other option is using a browser extension like Share-A-Cart. It works by scraping the product IDs (ASINs) from your page and creating a temporary code that another user can use to populate their own cart. Its very efficient but requires both of you to have the tool installed. A few things to watch out for:
Saw this earlier but just getting back to you... you really gotta be careful with those browser extensions that claim to share carts. I used one for my sister's baby shower and it felt super sketchy with my data. I would suggest just moving the items to a List instead. It takes two seconds to click Move to List on each item, then you just send her the invite link. Way more reliable than any third-party tool.