Create Cart

Create a cart object and populate it with one or more product variants.

🚧 Create Cart Object

When setting up Shop Now: On-Store for a headless store, be sure to create a base 64-encoded liquid cart object and send it to Loop.

Required API key scope

• Carts

POST /cart

Create Cart

cURL

curl --request POST \
  --url https://api.loopreturns.com/api/v1/cart \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --header 'X-Authorization: <api-key>' \
  --data '
{
  "cart": [
    39076568408247
  ],
  "shopify": "c2FtcGxlLXN0cmluZw=="
}
'

import requests

url = "https://api.loopreturns.com/api/v1/cart"

payload = {
    "cart": [39076568408247],
    "shopify": "c2FtcGxlLXN0cmluZw=="
}
headers = {
    "X-Authorization": "<api-key>",
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
}

response = requests.post(url, json=payload, headers=headers)

print(response.text)

const options = {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {'X-Authorization': '<api-key>', 'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
  body: JSON.stringify({cart: [39076568408247], shopify: 'c2FtcGxlLXN0cmluZw=='})
};

fetch('https://api.loopreturns.com/api/v1/cart', options)
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(res => console.log(res))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));

<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://api.loopreturns.com/api/v1/cart",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
  CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => json_encode([
    'cart' => [
        39076568408247
    ],
    'shopify' => 'c2FtcGxlLXN0cmluZw=='
  ]),
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
    "Content-Type: application/json",
    "X-Authorization: <api-key>"
  ],
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
  echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
  echo $response;
}

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"strings"
	"net/http"
	"io"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://api.loopreturns.com/api/v1/cart"

	payload := strings.NewReader("{\n  \"cart\": [\n    39076568408247\n  ],\n  \"shopify\": \"c2FtcGxlLXN0cmluZw==\"\n}")

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, payload)

	req.Header.Add("X-Authorization", "<api-key>")
	req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(string(body))

}

HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.post("https://api.loopreturns.com/api/v1/cart")
  .header("X-Authorization", "<api-key>")
  .header("Content-Type", "application/json")
  .body("{\n  \"cart\": [\n    39076568408247\n  ],\n  \"shopify\": \"c2FtcGxlLXN0cmluZw==\"\n}")
  .asString();

require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://api.loopreturns.com/api/v1/cart")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["X-Authorization"] = '<api-key>'
request["Content-Type"] = 'application/json'
request.body = "{\n  \"cart\": [\n    39076568408247\n  ],\n  \"shopify\": \"c2FtcGxlLXN0cmluZw==\"\n}"

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body

200

{
  "token": "46923497728c9a7b5o8a433zz5c0bbbb683319824778",
  "data": {
    "cart": [
      39076568408247
    ],
    "shopify": "c2FtcGxlLXN0cmluZw=="
  }
}

{
  "errors": "Unauthorized."
}

Authorizations

X-Authorization · string · header · required

Body

application/json

cart · (integer | object)[] · required

An array of product variants.

A product variant, provided either as a plain variant ID or as an object with a variant_id.

Example:

39076568408247

shopify · string

A Base64-encoded liquid cart object, used to reflect any additional transaction details in the commerce provider (e.g. Shopify) such as discounts.

Example:

"c2FtcGxlLXN0cmluZw=="

Response

200

application/json

Success

Option 1

Option 2

Option 3

Option 4

Option 5

token · string

The cart's unique identifier.

Example:

"46923497728c9a7b5o8a433zz5c0bbbb683319824778"

data · object

Echoes the contents of the create request.

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