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Currently, customizing the products order in checkout is only supported via the APIs.

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Create Organization Access Token and Product IDs

1

Create a New Token

Create a new organization token by following our Organization Access Tokens guide.
2

Save your Access Token

After creating your access token, you will be able to view it. Please copy and save your access token.
3

Go to the Products Catalogue

In the Polar dashboard sidebar, navigate to Products > Catalogue for your organization. You can also go directly to https://polar.sh/dashboard/${org_slug}/products.
4

Access the product IDs for checkout

Retrieve the Product IDs for the items you wish to include in checkout by clicking on the ⋮ (More options) menu next to chosen products and selecting Copy Product ID.
These IDs will be required in the next step to create a checkout.
1

Create a Checkout Link using the API

Open your terminal and paste the following curl command to make an API call for creating a checkout link. Be sure to replace:
  • <YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN> with your actual access token.
Make sure your token has the checkout_links:write scope enabled to use Create Checkout Link API.
  • <PRODUCT_ID_1>, <PRODUCT_ID_2>, etc., with the product IDs in the order you want them to appear in the checkout.
Terminal
curl --request POST \
    --url https://api.polar.sh/v1/checkout-links/ \
    --header 'Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN>' \
    --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
    --data '{
    "products": [
        "<Product_ID_1>",
        "<Product_ID_2>"
    ]
}'
Find all the available parameters along with the description in the Create Checkout Link API.
2

Open the Checkout Link URL

The curl command returns a JSON. Access the checkout link URL from the “url” key of the JSON and open it.
{
    "...": "...",
    "...": "...",
    "url": "https://buy.polar.sh/polar_cl_..."
}
It looks like below:
3

Change the order of products

If you want to change the order and make Product 2 appear before Product 1, place Product 2’s ID first, followed by Product 1’s ID in the API call.
Terminal
curl --request POST \
    --url https://api.polar.sh/v1/checkouts/ \
    --header 'Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN>' \
    --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
    --data '{
    "products": [
        "<Product_ID_2>",
        "<Product_ID_1>"
    ]
}'
The checkout looks like below:

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Reordering Products In Checkout Session API

1

Create a Checkout Session using the API

Open your terminal and paste the following curl command to make an API call for creating a checkout session. Be sure to replace:
  • <YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN> with your actual access token.
Make sure your token has the checkouts:write scope enabled to use Create Checkout Session API.
  • <PRODUCT_ID_1>, <PRODUCT_ID_2>, etc., with the product IDs in the order you want them to appear in the checkout.
Terminal
curl --request POST \
    --url https://api.polar.sh/v1/checkouts/ \
    --header 'Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN>' \
    --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
    --data '{
    "products": [
        "<Product_ID_1>",
        "<Product_ID_2>"
    ]
}'
Find all the available parameters along with the description in the Create Checkout Session API.
2

Open the Checkout Session URL

The curl command returns a JSON. Access the checkout session URL from the “url” key of the JSON and open it.
{
    "...": "...",
    "url": "https://buy.polar.sh/polar_c_...", 
    "...": "..."
}
It looks like below:
3

Change the order of products

If you want to change the order and make Product 2 appear before Product 1, place Product 2’s ID first, followed by Product 1’s ID in the API call.
Terminal
curl --request POST \
    --url https://api.polar.sh/v1/checkouts/ \
    --header 'Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN>' \
    --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
    --data '{
    "products": [
        "<Product_ID_2>",
        "<Product_ID_1>"
    ]
}'
The checkout looks like below: