How to add multiple products to cart with one click in Virtuemart?

These workarounds are fully comaptible with Virtuemart and you don't need extra extension to use it. It is a built in feature in Virtuemart.

With the following code there will be 2 products added to the Virtumart cart automatically.
Product IDs: 316, 314 - This code should be copied and pasted into your content where you want to display your offer. 

  https://example.com/index.php?option=com_virtuemart&view=cart&task=add&virtuemart_product_id[]=316&quantity[]=1&virtuemart_product_id[]=314&quantity[]=1

Changing the quantity

You can define how many products you want to add by modifying the "&quantity[]=1" part: 

  &quantity[]=15

If you are using AWO Coupon you can add the coupon with the same click by adding the following line:
In this case the summer20off is the coupon code you share with your customers, you don't need coupon IDs. 

  &addcoupontocart=summer20off

Using it as a link for a special offer/bundle
You can put the link anywhere, like into Joomla content, newsletters, Fb posts etc. 

  <a href="https://example.com/index.php?option=com_virtuemart&view=cart&task=add&virtuemart_product_id[]=316&quantity[]=1&virtuemart_product_id[]=314&quantity[]=1">Check out our special deal</a>

To use as a button just simply add the following class to your link: 

class="button"

By html form

In case you want to use a form you can copy and paste the following code: 

  <form method="post"/>  <input class="button" title="Add to Cart" type="submit" name="addtocart" value="Add to Cart"/>  <input type="hidden" name="option" value="com_virtuemart"/>  <input type="hidden" name="view" value="cart"/>  <input type="hidden" name="task" value="add"/>  <input type="hidden" name="virtuemart_product_id[]" value="316"/>  <input type="hidden" name="quantity[]" value="1"/>  <input type="hidden" name="virtuemart_product_id[]" value="314"/>  <input type="hidden" name="quantity[]" value="2"/>  </form>

There are some tricks how you can improve user experience for using this kind of addtocart feature in Virtuemart.


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