What is the cart drawer?
The Cart drawer is a convenient additional cart experience that allows customers to view and manage their shopping cart without leaving the current page. When activated, it slides out from the side of the screen and displays key cart information such as the selected products, quantities, discounts and total price.
This allows customers to quickly review and make changes to their cart, enhancing the overall shopping experience. The Alchemy cart drawer also provides upselling and conversion focused features like the Free shipping notice and product recommendations.
How to set up the cart drawer
Steps
- To enable the cart drawer open up the Theme Editor, select Theme settings and open the Cart settings.
- Select Drawer in the Cart type setting.
- Select the preferred action After adding to cart - i.e. Show cart drawer, go to the cart page or Do nothing (i.e. the drawer does not open and the customer does not change page.)
- Set an Empty cart shopping link to encourage customers to start shopping. This will also be used on an empty cart page.
- Choose whether to show the Free shipping notice. If configured this will also be shown on the cart page. Refer to the Free shipping notice guide for more details.
- Go to Overlay group > Cart Drawer to configure the layout of the drawer itself and choose whether to Show checkout button, Show order note, Show backorder text or add a Terms and conditions link.
Recommended products
Select Show recommendations to show dynamic recommendations populated automatically by a Shopify algorithm based on customer cart contents and shopping behavior. It's possible to review and amend this list of recommended products using the Shopify Search & Discovery app.
FAQs
Why is the cart drawer not showing?
Check the settings in Theme settings > Cart. The Cart type should be set to Drawer. The cart drawer is only supported in the Alchemy theme version 5.0.0 and later. Update your theme to take advantage of this feature.
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