Checkout Templates: Sample Use Case & Flow

This article shares some possible use cases your app could support, as well as an sample flow that could support each use case. This can be a helpful jumping off point as you plan your app's implementation.

Run a flash sale through social media

Offer a sale to customers through social media channels that runs for a limited time only. Create the checkout template and pull the URL to automatically redirect anyone that clicks on the link to a checkout page with the offer. When the period for the sale is complete, update the checkout template's status to INACTIVE to turn it off.

To create and share the offer:

1. Use Create Checkout Template with the product and coupon information for offer.
2. Use the checkoutTemplateId to build the URL to share with customers. Build the URL in this format: https://www.wixapis.com/ecom/v1/checkout-templates/{checkoutTemplateId}/create-and-redirect-to-checkout?siteId={siteId}.
3. Post and share the URL to customers.

To turn off the offer at the end of the sale:

1. Use Update Checkout Template to update checkoutTemplate.status to INACTIVE.

Limit the number of checkouts for a specific coupon

Offer a sale to the first 100 customers that click on an offer. Create a checkout template, then share your own custom link that will run custom logic before creating a new checkout for the customer.

Create a checkout template and add your own custom logic:

1. Use Create Checkout Template with the product and coupon information for offer.
2. Create a bank of all new checkouts for this sale by collecting the checkoutIds of checkouts created from this checkoutTemplateId.
3. Before a new checkout is created with the checkoutTemplateId, check the bank and count the number of checkoutIds being stored.
4. Once the count hits 100 checkouts, use Update Checkout Template to update checkoutTemplate.status to INACTIVE.