Offer gift wrapping in the cart

A gift wrap card in the cart lets customers add gift wrapping with one click. The card shows the photo, the name and the price of a product you choose, with a plus button. The wrap goes into the cart as its own product, at its own price.

Create a gift wrap product in your Shopify admin, with a price and a photo, and make it available in your Online Store sales channel. Shopify's guide to adding products explains how to create one.

Keep the product in stock, or turn off inventory tracking for it. While it is sold out, the card doesn't show.

Choose the gift wrap product

  1. In your Shopify admin, go to Online Store.

  2. Next to Checkmate, click Edit theme.

  3. In the editor sidebar, click Theme settings.

  4. Select Cart.

  5. Under Gift wrap, select your product in Gift wrap product.

    Gift wrap group in Cart settings with the Gift Wrapping product chosen in Gift wrap product
  6. Click Save.

The Lair style starts with Gift wrap product set to Gift Wrapping, the gift wrap product of its demo store. Your store shows that card only if it has a product with the handle gift-wrapping, so choose your own product. The Checkmate and Fang styles start with no product, so the card shows only after you choose one. To stop offering gift wrap, remove the product from Gift wrap product.

What customers see

The card shows only when the cart has products.

The Lair style's demo store offers its Gift Wrapping product this way in the cart drawer.

Lair cart drawer with a Gift Wrapping card at $8.00 and a round plus button above the products in the cart
  • In the cart drawer, the card sits at the top of the list of products. After a customer clicks it, the card goes away and the wrap shows in the list as its own line, where the customer can change its quantity or remove it like any product.

  • On the cart page, the card sits in the order summary, just before the checkout button. After a customer clicks it, the card stays with a "Gift wrap added" note and an x that removes the wrap. The wrap also shows in the list of products.

The card adds one wrap. If your gift wrap product has several variants, the card adds the first one in stock, at that variant's price. The wrap's price counts toward the free shipping message in Show a free shipping progress bar, like any other product.

The theme doesn't hide the gift wrap product anywhere else. Customers can find it in search results and in every collection that includes it.

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