> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.smartwpplugins.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.
# Quickstart
> Build a working preset and share its link in about five minutes
export const Media = ({kind = 'Screenshot', children}) =>
{kind === 'Video' ? '▶️' : '🖼️'}
{kind} pending
{children}
;
export const Pro = () =>
Pro
;
This walks through one preset end to end: three products, a discount, and a link you can paste into a newsletter. Everything here works on the free build.
## 1. Create the preset
Go to **Cart Presets → Add New Preset**.
Give it a title. The slug fills itself in from the title as you type, and the slug is what appears in the link — "Starter Kit" becomes `starter-kit`. You can edit the slug directly if you want something shorter.
The internal description is for your team. Customers never see it.
The Preset details card with a title, slug and description filled in
## 2. Add items
In the **Items** card, click **Add store product** and pick a product. Repeat for each one you want in the set.
For a variable product, the picker asks you to choose the variation. Every attribute has to be answered — a preset has nobody to ask at cart time, so "Any" is not an option here.
Expand a row to set:
* **Quantity** — how many of this item the link adds.
* **A per-item discount** — a percentage, a fixed amount off, or a flat price that replaces the product's own.
* **Quantity rules** — whether the customer may change the amount in the cart, and between what bounds.
The Items card with three products, one row expanded showing the discount and quantity controls
## 3. Set the price
Each item can carry its own discount, and the preset as a whole can carry one on top.
Turn on **Additional discount** and choose:
| Type | What you type | What happens |
| ------------ | ------------- | ------------------------------------------------ |
| Percentage | `15` | 15% comes off the subtotal |
| Fixed amount | `20` | 20 comes off the subtotal |
| Target total | `99` | The discount is whatever brings the preset to 99 |
**Target total** is the useful one for a kit: you name the price you advertised and the plugin works out the discount.
The **Pricing summary** on the right recalculates as you type, and it shows the same numbers the customer's cart will. If they disagree, that is a bug — they are pinned to each other by a shared test fixture.
The pricing summary sidebar showing regular value, item discounts, additional discount and the preset total
## 4. Check the health panel
Below the summary, **Health checks** asks about a dozen questions of the preset and answers each one.
A **warning** is something that will work but may not be what you meant. A **failure** blocks the save — a variation with an unanswered attribute, a discount switched on with no amount, no items at all. Click any check to jump to the control it is about.
The health checks panel with one warning and one failure, the failure expanded
## 5. Save and share
Click **Save preset**. The **Preset link** card fills in with the live URL:
```
https://yourstore.com/preset/starter-kit
```
Copy it with the button beside it. That link is now live — anyone who follows it lands on your cart page holding the three items at the price you set.
A preset goes live the moment you save it with the status switch on. There is no separate publish step. If you want it built now and selling later, that is a [schedule](/cartpresets/building/scheduling).
## 6. Try it yourself
Open the link in a private window, so you arrive as a customer rather than as yourself.
You should land on the cart with the three items in it, each carrying a **Part of preset** label, and the total matching what the editor quoted.
Following a preset link in a private window and landing on the filled cart, 20 seconds
## What to read next
Send them to the cart, to checkout, or to a page of your own
What the link does to a cart that already has things in it
Rewrite every sentence a customer reads
Cap how many times a preset can be claimed