- Short answer
- Yes — Quick Sale in the Shopify mobile app makes payment links, and draft orders and cart permalinks give checkout links.
- Quick Sale needs
- A Shopify plan and a payment provider (Shopify Payments where it's available); payment links work wherever Quick Sale is available.
- Stock
- Out-of-stock items block the sale on a Quick Sale link and on a draft order invoice.
- Draft order trap
- Marking the draft as Paid before the customer pays breaks the invoice link.
- Discount codes
- Off by default at checkout for draft order invoices and links; you allow them on each draft separately.
- Reusable link
- A cart permalink opens a new checkout for each customer; selling plans don't work with it.
- Shopify POS
- Email cart needs POS Pro.
What counts as a payment link in Shopify?
Shopify added payment links to Quick Sale: since December 10, 2025, you can create a payment link when you complete a Quick Sale order in the Shopify mobile app. Shopify's Quick Sale guide says the link works “similar to a draft order direct checkout link”, and other tools give you a checkout link under other names:
Five Shopify links that take a payment
| Link | Where you create it | Use it when | How it reaches the customer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Quick Sale payment link | Quick Sale in the Shopify mobile app | You're completing a simple sale, in person or online | You share it: social, email, text or a QR code |
| Draft order checkout link | A draft order | You want an emailed invoice or a link for a request that began on social media or in a DM | You send an invoice or share the link yourself |
| Invoice for an unpaid order | An order in Payment pending status | The order already exists | You send an invoice with a checkout link |
| Cart permalink | A product details page with the Buy Button channel, or by hand from variant IDs | Many customers get the same offer | You share it: email campaigns, social posts, chat messages |
| Email cart | Shopify POS, on POS Pro locations | The cart is in Shopify POS | POS emails a cart summary and an online checkout link |
Read on Shopify's Help Center and changelog on October 13, 2026.
A Quick Sale needs a Shopify plan and a payment provider; in countries where Shopify Payments is available, you must use Shopify Payments. Quick Sale is available in all countries where Shopify operates, and payment links work wherever Quick Sale is available. The link sits next to Tap to Pay and cash as a way to take payment; the customer pays on their own device with an accelerated payment method or a credit card.
Quick Sales are inventory-aware: for a sale with out-of-stock items, the app shows “Payment link unavailable”. Unpaid links wait in the Pending links tab.
Quick Sale is built for simple, fast transactions and lacks some Shopify POS features, such as cash tracking. Shopify's steps for taking payment on a Quick Sale cover the rest.
How does a draft order work as a payment link?
A draft order's checkout link reaches the customer in two ways: you send an invoice that contains it, or share the link directly, which Shopify suggests for requests that began on social media apps or in direct messaging. Once the customer checks out, the draft becomes an order, automatically marked as Paid. Our guide compares the routes to getting a draft order paid.
Check these before you send the invoice:
- Paid too early. Mark the draft as Paid before the payment arrives and the invoice link won't work.
- No stock. If the invoice includes a product with no available inventory, the customer can't complete the sale.
- Discount codes. By default they can't be applied at checkout for draft order invoices or links; you allow them on each draft separately.
- Age. Draft orders created on or after April 1, 2025, are automatically deleted after 1 year of inactivity.
For an existing order in Payment pending status, you can send an invoice with a link to the checkout page; see our answer on sending an invoice to a customer.
Which Shopify checkout link can you reuse?
A cart permalink is the reusable one: you select product variants, quantities and discounts, and the same link creates a new checkout for each customer, so you can share it in email campaigns, social media posts or chat messages. With the Buy Button channel installed (it is included in all Shopify subscription plans), you create one from any product details page. You can also build one by hand from your store's cart link and variant IDs; Shopify's cart permalink guide has the steps for both.
Shopify's developer documentation adds limits:
- Selling plans don't work with cart permalinks.
- Cart permalinks can't bypass a storefront password.
- A discount code containing a comma can't be passed in the discount URL parameter.
The channel's buttons are another matter: Shopify does not recommend Buy Buttons on your Shopify online store or blog, because they can cause problems with the checkout process, and points to cart permalinks instead.
Can Shopify POS send a payment link?
As of October 2026, none of the Shopify POS Help Center pages we read — its payment-management and order-management sections — describes a “send payment link” action in the POS app.
What those pages do describe is for POS Pro locations: Email cart emails the customer a cart summary and a link to your store's online checkout, and you can email a draft order from Shopify POS too.
Shopify POS also has Pay by link: a changelog post dated October 21, 2025 added it for iDEAL, Klarna, Swish, TWINT, MobilePay and USDC: you activate these methods in Shopify Payments, and customers pay on their own device “with a secure QR code or link”. The Help Center describes these local payment methods only as paid by scanning a QR code on your POS device.
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