Cart page

The cart at /cart, using the Main cart section. Its own settings are only color and spacing, because what the cart shows is decided store-wide under Cart settings, and the same settings drive the cart drawer.

Cart drawer or cart page

Under Theme settings > Cart, Cart type is Drawer by default: the cart icon and Add to cart open a panel over the current page, and the shopper can keep browsing. Set it to Page to send shoppers to /cart instead.

The cart page exists either way. With the drawer, a shopper still reaches it from the drawer’s View cart link or by going to /cart directly, and the drawer never opens on top of the cart page itself.

Section settings

Color scheme. Default: scheme-1.

Spacing

Top padding / Bottom padding. Range: 0 to 300 px in 5 px steps. Default: 110 px each. This is the padding on screens 1920 px and wider; it scales down on smaller screens.

Blocks

App block. Any block offered by an installed app. Upsell, trust badge and shipping-estimate apps usually go here.
Custom Liquid. See Custom Liquid.

Blocks render below the cart, and they render on the empty cart too.

What the cart shows

The page opens with a Continue shopping back link to your catalog of all products, in the same style as the back link on other pages, and the Your cart heading.

None of the rest are set on the cart page itself. Each appears when the store, the line item or a Cart settings option calls for it.

Line items, with image, options, any line item properties, an editable quantity and a remove control.
Subscription details: the selling plan’s name on any line bought on a plan. See Selling plans.
Unit prices where a product has them. See Unit pricing.
A free shipping bar, when Free shipping threshold is set. It counts down to the threshold in the shopper’s currency and confirms once it is reached.
Discounts, named with their amount, and a You’re saving line for savings on individual lines. See Discount codes.
A gift wrap checkbox, when a Gift wrap product is chosen and available.
A discount code field, when Show discount code field is on.
The subtotal, followed by a Shop Pay Installments message when Show Shop Pay Installments is on and installments are enabled in your payment settings. See Shop Pay Installments.
Check out and accelerated checkout buttons, for whichever wallets your store accepts. See Accelerated checkout.
A tax note: Tax included. when your prices include tax, and Tax excluded. for B2B buyers whose prices exclude it.
Order notes, a message to you that arrives with the order. The field is collapsed unless Open the order note by default is on, and a note the shopper has already written always shows.
Product suggestions, when Show product suggestions is on: up to four products not already in the cart. A product on sale shows its compare-at price struck through, as on its product card.

The empty cart

An empty cart shows Your cart is empty and a button to the catalog rather than a blank page. Choose an Empty cart suggestions collection under Cart settings to show up to four of its products below the message, headed by the collection’s name. On the cart page that heading takes the size of a section heading; in the drawer it stays small.

Tips

Keep app blocks modest. They sit below the checkout button, which is right; an app that pushes a large widget there still competes with the thing the shopper came to do.
Don’t hide the discount field if you run promotions. A shopper with a code who can’t find where to put it will leave the checkout to look for one.
Match the free shipping threshold to your shipping rate. The bar is a promise. If it says free shipping and checkout charges for it, the bar has cost you the sale.
Order notes are read by you, not by Shopify. Nothing acts on them automatically; they arrive with the order in your admin.
Test the cart with a subscription product if you sell any. The plan name has to be right before a shopper commits to a recurring charge.