Example flow: Shop export to URL string

Are you using a hosted shop solution, for example, Shopify? No worries, we got your back.

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With Shop Export, you can send the content of the basket to your hosted shop solution of choice via URL string.

Receive basket content

Create a middleware site to act as export URL.

iPaper exports the basket content in an XML format. This content has to be picked up by a middleware site that will transform it into something that can be received and read by the end point. In this case, the middleware site will parse the payload data into a URL string with the information of the basket content such as SKUs, number of units, etc.

The stages between the Flipbook and the completion of the checkout will depend on the checkout option.

Unlike the other checkout options, this requires more development from the customer side, but because of this, it enables you to decide exactly what to do with it!

This development is normally done by the customer's IT or web team. They can use the following flow to understand the set-up this integration requires — click the image to download as PDF:

For the technical documentation of the data we send, read more here:

When the development is done, you can go ahead and finish setting the shop up in the iPaper platform.

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