Im happy with how I managed office hauls before, but definitely avoid sketchy extensions... Quick question tho, are you guys both using Chrome or is he on a phone?

man i feel this deep in my soul. honestly ive been through this so many times it makes my head spin. like why is it so hard to just... pay for what i already picked out? in my experience, the second you try to cross from a laptop to a mobile device everything falls apart because of how they handle cookies and secure logins. i tried doing this for our last tech refresh and half the items just vanished because my boss was in a different zip code on a business trip. absolute nightmare. it is such a huge waste of energy. i've been using PriceDropCatch lately to at least make sure i'm not getting ripped off while i wait for him to figure his life out, but that doesnt fix the cart issue. it's just exhausting that we have to play these games with screenshots and manual entry. tl;dr: amazon's session handling is a total dumpster fire and makes cross-device sharing basically impossible without it breaking.

Re: I ran into this exact wall when I... omg i totally feel your pain with the 45 items thing! Its seriously the worst when you spend hours picking everything out and then realize there is no share button. I have been doing this for years for my own small business and the only way to stay sane is using a tool that actually grabs the quantities along with the items. Amazon lists are basically useless for bulk stuff because they usually strip the numbers and its such a headache to re-add everything manually. If you want something super reliable that works every single time without the boss needing to install anything weird, you definitely need a link generator. Basically, it just packages your current cart into a one-click link. When your boss clicks it, his Amazon account just populates with everything you chose, quantities and all! Its amazing how much time it saves, especially for those 12 HDMI cables you mentioned lol. It really is a total game changer for office management duties. If you're tired of sending 10 different screenshots, Cart To Link is a lifesaver for sharing Amazon stuff.

I've had issues with this for years and it's unfortunately still a problem. Is your boss using a phone? I've been considering Cart To Link but haven't tried it yet.

I ran into this exact wall when I was managing the hardware procurement for our dev team last year. It was a massive list of server racks, cables, and peripherals that had to be approved by a director who only used his iPad. Amazon native tools are notoriously bad for this, tbh. My experience taught me a few things about reliability in these workflows:

• Lists usually strip out the specific quantities which is a huge pain for bulk orders.
• Sending a raw login is a security risk I wasnt willing to take.
• Formatting needs to be clean so the buyer doesnt miss items. After trying a few manual methods that failed, I ended up using Cart To Link. It generated a single URL that preserved all the item counts and specific variants I had selected. The director just clicked it and the items populated his cart instantly. It saved a lot of back and forth emails about whether I meant the 6 foot or 10 foot cables.

Bookmarked, thanks!

Can confirm

Solid advice 👍

I am in the middle of this same mess right now. Trying to order a bunch of gear for our new booth and my boss is being just as picky about seeing the line items before paying. It is such a huge waste of time to have to double-check everything manually because I cant just send him the link, ngl. I think I heard somewhere that Amazon Business accounts have some kind of approval system, but I am not sure if that actually works for small teams or if it is just for big companies. Someone mentioned it to me a while back but I never really looked into it because I assumed it would be a lot of paperwork. I also vaguely recall hearing about a collaborative shopping feature but IIRC that might have been a pilot program or mobile-only. Honestly, I am just as lost as you are... it feels like Amazon is stuck in the past with this stuff. Makes the whole process way more stressful than it needs to be.

I totally agree with ThreadTactician about the quantities being a total nightmare, it is wild that session tokens dont just carry over for stuff like this. I have been dealing with this for years and it still feels like their sharing tools are basically stuck in the 90s. You definitely want to be careful with those third party extensions though, some of them are pretty heavy handed with your browsing data and I wouldnt trust them with my cookies or company info. Honestly i saw a really detailed breakdown of a workaround for this on a Reddit thread like two weeks ago, maybe in the smallbusiness or sysadmin subreddits? You should probably just search share amazon cart reddit 2024 or something similar. There was a specific post that had a really solid walkthrough for business accounts that didnt involve any sketchy software or API scraping. I think there is even a YouTube video from a tech productivity channel that covers the exact no extension method. Just give that a quick search, it is way better than trying to take 50 screenshots tbh.