“Checkout on Amazon” Feature

The Checkout on Amazon feature allows your visitors to add Amazon-based products to their local WooCommerce cart and complete the purchase directly on Amazon.

How to Activate the Feature

This feature works only when you create a Simple WooCommerce product (not an External/Affiliate product) and sync Content Egg Amazon offers with your WooCommerce products.

Go to Content Egg → Settings → WooCommerce → Amazon Checkout Button and select Enable Amazon checkout button. Then save the settings.

(Optional) You can customize the button text from: Content Egg → Settings → Frontend → Frontend Texts

How It Works

1. User adds products to your WooCommerce cart

   • Supports quantity changes, removing products, etc.

2. On the cart page, the default WooCommerce checkout button is replaced with: “Checkout on Amazon” (label can be customized)

1. When clicked:

• Content Egg collects all Amazon products in the cart

• Builds an Amazon Add-to-Cart request (ASIN.n + quantity)

• Redirects the user to Amazon’s “Add to Shopping Cart” confirmation page

1. The visitor clicks “Add to Cart” on Amazon → Products are added to their Amazon cart, and your AssociateTag is automatically applied.

Affiliate Tracking & Bonus Facts

• Your Amazon partner ID is passed via the AssociateTag parameter

• Amazon carts created this way typically last up to 30 days → If the customer completes a purchase within this period, you receive the commission

Conditions & Requirements

• Works with both Amazon API and Amazon NoAPI modules

• Content Egg’s Amazon product must be synchronized with a WooCommerce product (so that WooCommerce cart knows which items are Amazon items)

• Do not mix products from different Amazon locales (e.g., amazon.com + amazon.de)

• Only one locale can be sent to Amazon at a time → If mixed, only items from the first detected locale will be used

• If the WooCommerce cart contains Amazon + non-Amazon products:

  • Only Amazon items are sent to the Amazon cart

  • Non-Amazon products remain in the WooCommerce cart

What the Customer Sees

• “Add to cart” behavior on your site remains unchanged

• On the cart page, they see a clear Checkout on Amazon button

• One click opens Amazon with all Amazon items preloaded

• They approve the Add to Shopping Cart step

• Checkout and payment happen entirely on Amazon

Why This Helps

• Google doesn’t see affiliate links — your shop looks fully local.

• Amazon cart lasts up to 30 days (vs 24-hour cookie).

• Fewer steps → higher conversions.

Possible Downsides

• Some visitors may hesitate to use your local cart.

• Lower conversion if users only want product details, not an immediate purchase.

Here is an improved and cleaner version:

Not Using WooCommerce?

You can still offer an Amazon cart option using a special template shortcode:

[content-egg module=Amazon template=add_to_cart]

This displays an “Add All to Cart” that sends all listed Amazon products directly to the customer’s Amazon cart—similar to the WooCommerce integration, but without requiring WooCommerce.