Cart settings choose whether the cart opens as a drawer at the right side of the screen or as its own page, and what customers see after they add a product. They also turn on the extras inside the cart: an order note, a free shipping progress message, gift wrap and a terms checkbox. Unless its row below says otherwise, each setting applies to both the cart drawer and the cart page. In the editor sidebar, click Theme settings, then select Cart.
The cart's empty-cart text, its product suggestions and its look are set in the two sections both named Cart in the editor: the Cart drawer section and the Cart page section.
Cart behavior is the first part of the Cart group.
Cart behavior
Setting
What it does
Cart type
Drawer, the default, opens the cart in a panel at the right side of the screen when a customer clicks the cart icon. Page takes the customer to the cart page.
After add to cart
What happens when a customer adds a product. Open cart drawer, the default, opens the drawer with the product in it. It works only when Cart type is Drawer. With Page, it shows the confirmation message instead. Show confirmation message shows a small box with the product's photo and name and a View cart button. The box sits in the top right corner of the screen, or at the bottom on phones, and closes after 5 seconds unless the pointer is over it. Go to cart page takes the customer to the cart page, whatever the Cart type.
Cart icon
The cart icon in the Header section and in the Mobile bottom navigation section. Bag, the default, is a shopping bag. Cart is a shopping cart. The number of items in the cart shows on the icon.
Cart note
Enable cart note lets the customer write a note for the order, such as delivery instructions. In the cart drawer, it adds a round button with a note icon, above the subtotal and to the left of the Coupon button, that opens a box for the note. On the cart page, it adds an Order note row at the top of the order summary that opens the box in place. It is on by default.
Free shipping progress
Setting
What it does
Show free shipping progress
Shows a line that tells the customer how much more to spend for free shipping, with a small ring that fills up as the cart grows. In the drawer, the line sits at the top, on the same line as the cart's title, at the right edge. On the cart page, it sits above the subtotal. Once the cart reaches the amount, the line reads Free shipping, with a truck icon. Off by default.
Free shipping threshold
Shows when Show free shipping progress is on. The amount a cart needs for free shipping, as a number in your store's default currency, such as 50. The default is 100, and 0 hides the line. Customers who shop in another currency see the amount converted. The cart total it counts is after discounts, before shipping and taxes.
Popular collections
Sits under this heading in the editor but has nothing to do with free shipping. Lists up to 12 collections as links in the cart drawer when the cart is empty. The heading above them is Popular collections heading in the Cart drawer section. The cart page does not show this list.
The progress line does not give free shipping. To charge nothing for shipping above the amount, select Offer free shipping on a shipping rate in Settings > Shipping and delivery in your Shopify admin, with the same minimum order amount. Show a free shipping progress bar has the steps. If you picked the Checkmate or Fang style when you added the theme, the line is already on, at 50 or 40. Theme styles compares the styles.
Gift wrap
Gift wrap product is the product a customer can add as gift wrap, such as a wrapping service you create as a product in your Shopify admin. The cart shows it as a card with the product's photo, title and price. Clicking the card adds the product to the cart as its own item, at its own price.
In the drawer, the card sits above the cart's items, and it hides once the gift wrap is in the cart.
On the cart page, the card sits above the checkout button. Once the gift wrap is in the cart, the card says Gift wrap added and shows a button that removes it.
Adds a checkbox above the checkout button. Until the customer checks it, the checkout button does not work and express checkout buttons, such as Shop Pay, are hidden. Off by default.
Terms label
Shows when Require terms agreement is on. The text next to the checkbox, by default "I agree to the terms and conditions". To link it to your terms page, select the words and use the link button in the field.
The checkbox is only in the cart. When Show dynamic checkout buttons is on in the product page's Buy buttons block, a customer can go to checkout from the product page without seeing it. Ask customers to agree to terms before checkout has the steps.
Cart settings choose whether the cart opens as a drawer at the right side of the screen or as its own page, and what customers see after they add a product. They also turn on the extras inside the cart: an order note, a free shipping progress message, gift wrap and a terms checkbox. Unless its row below says otherwise, each setting applies to both the cart drawer and the cart page. In the editor sidebar, click Theme settings, then select Cart.
The cart's empty-cart text, its product suggestions and its look are set in the two sections both named Cart in the editor: the Cart drawer section and the Cart page section.
Cart behavior is the first part of the Cart group.
Cart behavior
Setting
What it does
Cart type
Drawer, the default, opens the cart in a panel at the right side of the screen when a customer clicks the cart icon. Page takes the customer to the cart page.
After add to cart
What happens when a customer adds a product. Open cart drawer, the default, opens the drawer with the product in it. It works only when Cart type is Drawer. With Page, it shows the confirmation message instead. Show confirmation message shows a small box with the product's photo and name and a View cart button. The box sits in the top right corner of the screen, or at the bottom on phones, and closes after 5 seconds unless the pointer is over it. Go to cart page takes the customer to the cart page, whatever the Cart type.
Cart icon
The cart icon in the Header section and in the Mobile bottom navigation section. Bag, the default, is a shopping bag. Cart is a shopping cart. The number of items in the cart shows on the icon.
Cart note
Enable cart note lets the customer write a note for the order, such as delivery instructions. In the cart drawer, it adds a round button with a note icon, above the subtotal and to the left of the Coupon button, that opens a box for the note. On the cart page, it adds an Order note row at the top of the order summary that opens the box in place. It is on by default.
Free shipping progress
Setting
What it does
Show free shipping progress
Shows a line that tells the customer how much more to spend for free shipping, with a small ring that fills up as the cart grows. In the drawer, the line sits at the top, on the same line as the cart's title, at the right edge. On the cart page, it sits above the subtotal. Once the cart reaches the amount, the line reads Free shipping, with a truck icon. Off by default.
Free shipping threshold
Shows when Show free shipping progress is on. The amount a cart needs for free shipping, as a number in your store's default currency, such as
50. The default is 100, and 0 hides the line. Customers who shop in another currency see the amount converted. The cart total it counts is after discounts, before shipping and taxes.Popular collections
Sits under this heading in the editor but has nothing to do with free shipping. Lists up to 12 collections as links in the cart drawer when the cart is empty. The heading above them is Popular collections heading in the Cart drawer section. The cart page does not show this list.
The progress line does not give free shipping. To charge nothing for shipping above the amount, select Offer free shipping on a shipping rate in Settings > Shipping and delivery in your Shopify admin, with the same minimum order amount. Show a free shipping progress bar has the steps. If you picked the Checkmate or Fang style when you added the theme, the line is already on, at 50 or 40. Theme styles compares the styles.
Gift wrap
Gift wrap product is the product a customer can add as gift wrap, such as a wrapping service you create as a product in your Shopify admin. The cart shows it as a card with the product's photo, title and price. Clicking the card adds the product to the cart as its own item, at its own price.
In the drawer, the card sits above the cart's items, and it hides once the gift wrap is in the cart.
On the cart page, the card sits above the checkout button. Once the gift wrap is in the cart, the card says Gift wrap added and shows a button that removes it.
The card hides when the product is sold out. Offer gift wrapping in the cart has the steps.
Terms checkbox
Setting
What it does
Require terms agreement
Adds a checkbox above the checkout button. Until the customer checks it, the checkout button does not work and express checkout buttons, such as Shop Pay, are hidden. Off by default.
Terms label
Shows when Require terms agreement is on. The text next to the checkbox, by default "I agree to the terms and conditions". To link it to your terms page, select the words and use the link button in the field.
The checkbox is only in the cart. When Show dynamic checkout buttons is on in the product page's Buy buttons block, a customer can go to checkout from the product page without seeing it. Ask customers to agree to terms before checkout has the steps.