Cart and gift wrapping

Found under Theme settings → Cart and Theme settings → Gift wrapping.

Almost everything the cart holds is configured on the cart itself: the drawer’s own settings live under Overlay in the theme editor’s sidebar, and the cart page’s live on the Cart section of the cart template. What sits in Theme settings is the handful of things the two surfaces have to agree on, because a shopper moves between them in a single session.

Cart

Setting	What it does	Default
Cart type	How the cart opens: a slide-out Drawer over the page, or a full Page at /cart.	Drawer
Image ratio	The shape product images take in the cart drawer, on the cart page, and in cart recommendations: Tall (2:3), Portrait (3:4), Square (1:1), or Landscape (4:3).	Portrait (3:4)
Enable free shipping	The master switch for the free shipping bar. Off, no cart surface shows it, whatever else is set.	Off
Free shipping starting from	The order value at which shipping becomes free.	0

On Drawer, the header’s cart button opens the drawer and /cart still works as a real page for anyone who reaches it directly. On Page, the button navigates to /cart instead.

Image ratio is one figure rather than a field per surface. The small thumbnail beside a line item, the cart page’s larger crop, and the recommendation cards below the cart all take it, so the same product does not change shape as the shopper moves from the drawer to the page.

Caution

Setting Cart type to Drawer does not remove the cart page. It stays reachable and keeps its own settings. Configure both if you send customers to /cart from anywhere, including email.

The free shipping bar

The bar is a one-line message and a progress track that fills as the cart grows. It reads “$40.00 away from free shipping.” while there is ground to make up, and “Shipping is on us.” once the threshold is met.

It ships switched off, and four things have to be true before it appears. That is deliberate: a free shipping promise the store does not actually honor is worse than none, so nothing is promised until you say so.

1. Enable free shipping is on, here in Theme settings.
2. Free shipping starting from is greater than 0.
3. The surface’s own checkbox is on. That is Enable free shipping on the cart drawer, under Overlay in the sidebar, and Show free shipping bar on the Cart section of the cart template. Both ship off.
4. The cart has something in it. An empty cart has nothing to measure.

The amount lives in Theme settings rather than on each surface so the drawer and the cart page can never quote different figures. The per-surface checkboxes let you run the bar in the drawer only, on the page only, both, or neither.

The amount is typed in your store’s currency, in whole units rather than cents: enter 150 for $150, 10000 for ¥10,000. It is compared against the cart subtotal, before tax and shipping, and after any cart-level discounts.

Caution

The bar does not create the shipping rate. Set the free rate up under Settings → Shipping and delivery in your Shopify admin, and make the two numbers match. The theme has no way to check that they do, and a bar that promises free shipping the checkout then charges for is a cart abandoned at the last step.

Note

Shoppers buying in another currency see the amount converted at the current rate. That conversion happens as the page opens, so on those visits the bar arrives a moment after the rest of the cart. Visitors buying in your store’s own currency get the finished number immediately.

Gift wrapping

Setting	What it does	Default
Gift wrap product	The product added to the cart when a shopper accepts gift wrapping. Leave empty to hide the offer entirely.	None

Shopify has no such thing as a priced option. A charge on a cart is a line, and a line is a product. So gift wrapping is a real product in your catalog, and the theme offers it as a single checkbox with the goods.

It reads “For $6.00, please wrap the products in this order”, or “Please wrap the products in this order” when the product is priced at zero. Ticking it adds the product as an ordinary line, which the shopper can remove with the same control every other line carries.

The offer appears on both cart surfaces. It is withheld wherever it could not be accepted, meaning no product chosen, an empty cart, the wrapping already in the cart, or the product sold out or unpublished.

The cart drawer has its own Offer gift wrapping checkbox, on by default, under Overlay. Turning it off hides the offer in the drawer only, and leaves it on the cart page.

Create the product like this:

• Priced as you want to charge, or at 0 for a courtesy wrap.
• Published to the Online Store sales channel, or the theme cannot add it.
• Inventory tracking off, so it never sells out mid-order.
• A single variant, with no shipping weight if it does not need one.

Caution

Once the product is named here, Lapels keeps it out of every place it lists products. That covers collection pages including /collections/all, featured collections, product carousels, related products, recently viewed, cart recommendations, search results, and the suggestions that appear as a visitor types.

Two things it cannot reach. First, the product’s own page at /products/… stays open, and Shopify still puts it in the store’s sitemap. Give it a plain title and keep it out of your menus. Second, the count beside a collection on the Collections list page is Shopify’s own tally, which counts the wrapping like any other piece. Keeping the product out of your collections settles both.

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