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Revisit a past web receipt

How to reopen a completed transaction's receipt, including how to keep the full URL in the address bar for testing template changes.

Every transaction has a unique receipt URL that can be reopened later — useful for customers checking a past order, or for testing template changes without completing a new checkout.

Steps

To revisit a receipt while testing template changes:

  1. 1

    Go to the Foxy admin.

  2. 2

    Go to Transactions.

  3. 3

    Right-click the View receipt link at the top of the page.

  4. 4

    Click to copy link address.

  5. 5

    Paste the URL into your browser’s address bar.

  6. 6

    Add &privacy_redirect=false to the end of the URL and press Enter.

With privacy_redirect=false in place, the full URL stays in the address bar, so you can reload the page as many times as you need while you work on your template.

Notes

  • The easiest way to get a receipt’s URL is the view link in the admin’s transaction history — this also works for customers or admins who just want to look up a past order.

  • The URL is also available as the receipt_url Twig variable in email receipts, and in responses from the API and the transaction datafeed.

  • By default, Foxy replaces the full receipt URL with /receipt in the browser’s address bar as soon as it loads, to prevent someone from reopening another customer’s receipt on a shared or public computer just by hitting the back button. This is why the full URL normally can’t be reloaded — privacy_redirect=false is what disables that protection for testing.

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