Last updated: June 2026
Share-A-Cart is a free browser extension and website that lets one person build an online shopping cart at a retailer (Amazon, Walmart, Target, Home Depot, and 200+ others) and share its full contents with another person in a single click. The recipient opens the link or enters a short Cart ID, and the same items are loaded into their own cart at the same store, ready to check out. No account, login, or personal information is required.
Share-A-Cart has been used by 300,000+ monthly shoppers, teachers, and teams to share more than 2 million carts. It's free because retailers pay a small affiliate commission on completed orders — nothing is added to your price.
The recipient clicks the link (or pastes the code at share-a-cart.com/get) and the same items load into their cart at the same retailer.
Yes. Share-A-Cart is free for individuals and there's no account to create. Revenue comes from retailer affiliate commissions on completed orders, paid by the retailer — not added to your price. A paid tier, Share-A-Cart+, exists for organizations that need approvals, auditing, and admin controls.
No. The free product requires no sign-up, login, email, or personal information. Carts are identified by an anonymous Cart ID with no link to the person who created or used them.
Yes. You can receive a shared cart on any device by opening the link or entering the Cart ID at share-a-cart.com/get. Creating a cart from scratch is easiest in a desktop browser with the extension installed, but you can also use the Create a Cart page on any device.
Yes. We have free apps for iOS and Android that replicate most of the functionality available on our website and via the extension.
Share-A-Cart is available as a verified extension for Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and other Chromium browsers. See the full list on the Plugins page.
Share-A-Cart supports 200+ online retailers, including Amazon, Walmart, Target, Best Buy, Home Depot, Lowe's, Costco, Sam's Club, Chewy, Wayfair, IKEA, AliExpress, Etsy, eBay, Shopify stores, and major grocery chains (Kroger, Safeway, Stop & Shop, Sainsbury's, Tesco, and more). The full, current list is on the Supported Stores page.
Yes, for these retailers: Amazon, Best Buy, B&H Photo, IKEA, Instacart, Kroger (and networked grocers), Shopify stores, and Walmart. The recipient just enters the Cart ID at share-a-cart.com/get. For all other retailers, the recipient needs the extension installed.
No. A single Share-A-Cart cart can only contain items from one retailer at a time. If you need to share items from multiple stores, create one cart per store.
Probably. Submit it through the suggest-a-retailer survey and we'll take a look!
Yes. Open the cart's share or receive page, expand List Actions at the bottom of the item list, and click Edit.
No. Create Cart ID takes a snapshot at the moment you click it. If you add or remove items afterward, click Create Cart ID again to generate an updated link. You can keep modifying your own retailer cart freely — your shared snapshot won't change.
Yes. The same Create a Cart flow works as a personal list. You can keep the link to yourself or revisit it later.
Yes. Share-A-Cart provides an embeddable widget — see How to Guides: Embedding a List.
Go to share-a-cart.com/get, enter the code, and click Get Cart! You'll see the full item list, the retailer it came from, and a cart total. Click Continue with Items to load everything into your own cart at that retailer.
Your browser is blocking the pop-up/redirect Share-A-Cart needs to hand the cart off to the retailer. Allow pop-ups for share-a-cart.com in your browser settings and try again.
Two common reasons: (1) Out-of-stock items don't transfer — if an item went out of stock between when the sender created the cart and when you loaded it, it'll be skipped. (2) Regional differences — a cart created on a retailer's US site may not fully load on the UK site, and vice versa.
Carts should load in under a minute. If it's taking longer, something is wrong — reach out via the contact form on the About page and we'll help.
Wishlists, wedding registries, and baby registries are for other people to buy gifts for you. Share-A-Cart is the opposite — it lets you build a cart so someone else can buy those items for themselves. Typical use cases: a teacher sharing a classroom supply list with parents, an office manager handing a snack order to a colleague, or a shopper transferring a cart from a personal Amazon account to a Prime account.
The extension is faster: you stay on the retailer's site and click once to generate or load a cart. The website works for the retailers listed above without the extension, but requires extra steps. Both produce the same result.
There's no self-serve delete button yet, but the team will delete a cart on request — use the contact form on the About page.
This usually means the retailer changed an item's ID, the item was discontinued, or it's currently out of stock. Recreate the cart and you'll have a fresh, working list.
Effectively none. The free version of Share-A-Cart does not require a login and does not store personally identifiable information. A shared cart contains a unique anonymous ID and the list of retailer product IDs — nothing about who created it or who used it. Full details are in the Privacy Policy.
Yes. The Chrome extension is Verified by Google and Featured by Google and Microsoft in their respective extension stores. It only activates on supported retailer sites and never reads payment information.
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The Share-A-Cart API runs on crtsh.net, which may be blocked by your network's filter. Ask your IT admin to whitelist crtsh.net (and share-a-cart.com).
If your question isn't here, use the contact form on the About page — real humans reply.
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