Add a simple purchase option

In this tutorial we show you how to add a simple purchase option to your Squarespace website.

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Add Sidecart Functionality

To display the sidecart when a customer adds a product to cart and store customer sessions, you must first load the needed Foxy loader file into your Squarespace website.

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In Squarespace, click on "Settings".
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Click on "Advanced" under the Website column.
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Click on "Code Injection".
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In the FoxyCart admin, go to the Sample Code page here and copy the snippet of code from Step 1.
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In Squarespace, paste snippet of code into Footer section.
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Save your changes.

Add Purchase Option

Any Squarespace element that can be linked can be used as your purchase option.

1

In Squarespace, click on "Pages" and choose page you want to add purchase option to

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Click on "Edit" to edit page content

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Add a button element and style it to your liking

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In the Foxy admin, copy the "href" value from the link example in Step 2 section

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In Squarespace, paste the copied link into the "Clickthrough URL" field
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Modify the product parameters as needed
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Apply changes and save settings

Display Product Image In Cart

You can display the product image in the cart by passing in the image url as a product parameter.

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Switch to view mode and right-click on your product image

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From the right-click menu choose "Copy Image Address"

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Switch back to edit mode and click to edit your button element

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Click to modify the "Clickthrough URL"

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At the end of your "Clickthrough URL" add &image=
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Paste the image address you just copied right after the equal sign
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Apply changes and save settings