So I’ve been sitting here for like three hours building this massive cart for our new community center office. We finally got a small grant—about 1200 bucks—to get some decent equipment for the volunteers and I’ve been picking out very specific things like these exact noise-canceling headphones and some specific cable management trays that I know will fit the desks we already have. The problem is I’m not the one with the corporate card. My director is the one who actually has to pull the trigger on the purchase and she’s super busy so I can’t just sit with her and do it on her laptop.
I’ve been looking for a way to just like... send her the whole cart. I did some digging and saw people talking about making a public Wish List. I tried that but it feels like a huge pain because I have to move every single item one by one and then she still has to go into the list and add them back to her cart? It seems so inefficient for 20+ items. I also saw some old thread about a browser extension called Share-A-Cart but I don’t know if I trust a third-party app with our account info or if it even still works in 2024. Plus I'm on a work computer so installing random plugins is kinda frowned upon anyway.
Is there like a hidden button or a way to just generate a link that populates her cart with everything I’ve already picked out? I’m worried if I just send her a list of links she’s gonna get the wrong versions or forget something and we need this stuff by next Thursday for the grand opening here in Chicago. Surely Amazon has a way to do this without having to share a whole Prime account or something right? I just want a simple send cart feature but I cant find it anywhere in the settings...
In my experience, Amazon still doesnt have a simple send cart button. I've tried many workarounds over the years, and honestly, the Wish List is your best bet. Tedious as it seems, if you use the Move to List option in your cart, it goes way faster... Once she opens the link, she can just hit Add all to cart on her end. Its the only official way without sharing logins.
Late to the thread here, but I wanted to mention a more formal way to handle this, especially since you're dealing with a community center grant. Honestly, the most secure and reliable method for what you're doing is setting up an Amazon Business account. It's free to join for nonprofits and it has a built-in feature called Workflow Approvals. Basically, you do all the shopping, build the cart, and then hit a button to send it to your director for approval. She gets a notification, sees exactly what you picked out-like those specific cable trays and headphones-and finishes the checkout using the corporate card. It keeps your grant money records clean and you dont have to worry about third-party apps touching your data. If you're stuck on a personal account and cant switch to a business profile, you might check out amazon cart share online. Some of these tools let you generate a cart link that others can click to populate their own basket without you needing to install a permanent browser extension, which is helpful if your IT department is strict. Just make sure you verify the items once they're in her cart. It's a bit of a workaround, but it beats sending 20 individual links and hoping she doesnt accidentally buy the wrong version of something before the grand opening next week. Tbh, it's the only way to be 100% sure the order is right when you're not the one with the card.