Cart Rocket is a Shopify app by Thoughtbulb that builds pre-loaded cart links. One URL adds products to the cart, applies discounts, and sends shoppers to checkout. You can let shoppers choose size or colour first, give each creator their own link, or rebuild a customer's last order. It's made for stores that sell through paid ads, email, SMS and creators.
● No theme code · Works with every Shopify theme
Where merchants deploy rocket links
Some shoppers drop off at every page between the click and the buy button. This video shows one rocket link taking them from the ad to checkout.
Start from a template or from scratch. Choose products and variants, set quantities, and add the discounts for the campaign.
Put your rocket link in Meta ads, email automations, SMS, creator bios, or on a QR code. One click loads the cart.
Analytics shows orders, revenue and AOV for each link and campaign, so you can see which ones to keep running.
You set up the cart once. Cart Rocket builds it for every shopper who opens the link, with the discounts, rules and tracking you chose.
Send traffic to a cart that already holds the right variants and quantities. The shopper lands with everything picked out.
Discounts apply when the link opens. Cart Rocket uses Shopify's own discount engine, so checkout handles them the usual way.
Run private drops, VIP early access and limited releases without touching your theme. Cart Rocket checks the rules on the server every time the link opens.
Every rocket link passes UTM parameters and your own custom parameters through to the order. Analytics breaks revenue down by cart link and campaign.
Start from a template (Influencer, Free gift, Bundle deal, Product launch or Reorder) and turn on the options the campaign needs.
Cart Rocket
?ref=code, with each creator's orders tagged creator-<code>Send customers to the cart page, straight to checkout (the default), or to Shop Pay.
Influencer, Free gift, Bundle deal, Product launch and Reorder templates fill in suggested settings. Nothing is saved until you save.
The link only carries its address. Cart Rocket builds the cart on the server, so nobody can edit a link to change its items or discounts.
Setup runs on install. Turn on the Cart Rocket app embed in the theme editor and you're done. Works with Dawn and third-party themes.
Short links on your own store domain that fit in an Instagram bio or an SMS, plus a high-res QR code PNG for print and packaging.
Shoppers check out in Shopify's checkout, and discounts go through Shopify's discount engine. Prices show in your store's currency format.
A theme block that lets shoppers share their own cart. Shared links last 30 days and carry items only.
Links that are off, expired, or at their limit send shoppers to the product or home page with a short notice, not an error.
Ask Shopify Sidekick to find, create or edit a cart link: products, cart and shipping discounts, order tags, creators and link options. Then review and save.
Add tags like bfcm-bundle to Shopify orders that came from a link. Existing order tags stay as they are.
Ready-made Shopify Flow recipes for cart recovery, repeat purchases, and rewards and gifts. Paste your cart link into the email step.
Several products with bundle pricing in a single link, with no theme changes or extra landing page.
Clear the shopper's cart so it holds only the link's items, or leave it on and add to what's already there.
One link that adds a logged-in customer's last order back to the cart. Items no longer for sale are skipped.
Fill in email, name, address and phone at checkout from your email or SMS merge tags. Cart Rocket doesn't store them.
Basic gives you one cart link with every feature. Pro gives you as many links as you need.
For a store running one campaign link at a time.
?ref=code)Unlimited cart links. Create and share as many as you need.
7-day free trial · Billed through Shopify · Cancel anytime
When a customer clicks your rocket link, Cart Rocket fills their cart with the products and variants you chose, applies the link's discounts, and sends them to the cart page, checkout, or Shop Pay, whichever you picked. The cart and its discounts are set on the server, so editing the link can't change them.
Yes. One link can combine a line-item discount on a specific product (say, 20% off a hoodie), a cart-wide discount, a shipping discount, and auto-applied Shopify discount codes. Cart Rocket uses Shopify's own discount engine to apply them.
Yes. Every rocket link passes through UTM parameters (utm_source, utm_medium, utm_campaign, utm_term, utm_content) and any custom key-value parameters you add, so Analytics can show revenue by ad, email campaign or SMS message. For creators, add a creator code to one cart link (?ref=mia): their orders are tagged creator-mia, and the Creators tab in Analytics shows opens, orders, and revenue per creator.
No. Cart Rocket needs no theme code and works with all Shopify themes, including Dawn and third-party themes. Install the app (setup runs automatically), turn on the Cart Rocket app embed in the theme editor, then create a link and share it.
Yes. A cart link can be open to everyone, a Shopify customer segment, or specific customers. You can cap total redemptions and purchases per customer (per-customer limits need the shopper to be logged in), and set active start and end dates in UTC for flash sales and drops.
Shoppers land on the product or home page with a short notice instead of an error page. The same happens when a link reaches its purchase limit or is limited to certain customers; restricted links ask logged-out shoppers to log in first.
Yes. Turn on the options page before checkout and tick Show a countdown until this offer ends. The timer counts down to the cart link's end date or a date and time you choose. Every shopper sees the same deadline, and it never resets for a new visitor. When it reaches zero, the page says the offer has ended and shoppers can't continue. How to set it up.
A link can add subscription products on a plan, rebuild a logged-in customer's last order (a reorder link), fill in checkout details such as email, name, address and phone from your email or SMS tool, and empty the shopper's cart before adding its items. You can start from a template: Influencer, Free gift, Bundle deal, Product launch or Reorder.
Yes. The Tag orders setting adds your own tags to Shopify orders placed through a link (for example bfcm-bundle or sms-launch) and keeps the order's existing tags. These are order tags, not customer tags. Creator orders get a creator-<code> tag. The Automations page has ready-made Shopify Flow recipes for cart recovery, repeat purchases, and rewards and gifts, and your order tags can start your own Flow workflows. Four Flow recipes step by step.
Basic is $9 a month for 1 cart link with every feature. Pro is $15 a month for unlimited cart links. Both plans have a 7-day free trial and the same email support, are billed through Shopify, and you can cancel anytime.
Install Cart Rocket, build your first cart link, and send your next campaign straight to checkout.