A shared cart in Fontdue is a saved copy of a customer’s cart – its items, pricing, and any applied coupon – that they can reopen later, send to someone else, or download as a PDF quote. The link and the PDF are two views of the same saved cart, captured the moment the customer shares it.
Shared carts are customer-initiated. There’s no admin screen for building one on behalf of a customer; the flow happens entirely in the cart on your website.
How customers use it
In the Store Modal’s cart view, customers see a Share cart button. Clicking it saves a copy of their cart and presents:
- A shareable URL they can copy and send, which reopens the exact same cart for whoever opens it.
- A Download PDF quote link that generates a PDF with the cart contents, a total, and a link back to the shareable cart URL.
What a shared cart contains
- Every cart item with its description, price, SKU, and license selections.
- Any order variable selections (with their multipliers).
- The applied coupon and discount, if any.
- The subtotal and total amounts in the store currency.
A shared cart doesn’t include licensee details, tax breakdowns, or the customer’s contact information – those are collected during checkout when the cart is resumed.
Shared cart URLs
A shared cart URL looks like https://your-site.fontdue.com/shared-cart/{id}. Anyone with the link can open it. When the URL is visited, Fontdue loads the saved cart into the visitor’s session and redirects them to your Site URL with a flag telling the cart to open on arrival.
For this to actually surface the cart, two things have to be set up correctly:
- The Store Modal component must be embedded on the page at your Site URL. The redirect relies on the Store Modal mounting on that page, noticing the flag, and opening itself with the restored cart. If the page doesn’t include the component, the visitor lands on your homepage with the cart silently dropped – there’s no fallback UI to recover it.
- Your Site URL must point to the actual foundry homepage. It’s the redirect target for shared carts, but it’s also where customers are sent after checkout, what the “Return to site” link in the customer dashboard points to, and the link receipt emails use. Set it under Settings → Branding → Site URL and keep it in sync if you add a custom domain later.
If the visitor already has that same cart loaded – for example, the person who originally shared it clicking their own link – nothing is replaced; the cart just opens as it already was.
Quote PDF
The PDF is titled Q- followed by the shared cart’s ID, styled like an invoice, and contains:
- Your foundry’s billing address at the top.
- The cart items with prices and any order variable multipliers.
- The applied discount, subtotal, and total.
- A Shared cart URL the recipient can click to resume the cart.
- A Valid until footer with the cart’s expiry date.
Opening the PDF doesn’t consume the quote – it’s safe to share the link repeatedly.
Expiry
A shared cart is valid for 30 days from creation. After that, the URL no longer reopens the cart and the PDF link stops working. If a customer needs to come back to a quote after that window, they have to rebuild their cart.