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Cart Summary

Cart Summary displays the customer a total price for the items in a short and consolidated view. With the summary amount displayed on the Cart page, customers will see the amount of money they need to pay for all items while shopping.

Cart Summary — Overview (Screenshot 1)

You can open the Elements panel => Cart => Cart Summary to drag and drop the element to the position you want:

Cart Summary — Overview (Screenshot 2)

1. Content settings

This element supports multiple content types, and you don’t have to display all of them. Use the Trash icon next to each tab to show or hide content, and drag the tabs to rearrange their order.

Cart Summary — 1. Content settings (Screenshot 1)
  • Discount applied: Show only Automatic discounts applied. You can insert them into the wording to show dynamic content.
Cart Summary — 1. Content settings (Screenshot 2)

The {{title}} variable displays the discount title, while {{amount}} displays the discount value. These variables are based on Shopify Liquid syntax and are used to render dynamic content for the Discounts feature.

Cart Summary — 1. Content settings (Screenshot 3)

Result when on live: The title is dynamic, and the amount is dynamically changed according to the price of all items in the cart.

Cart Summary — 1. Content settings (Screenshot 4)
  • Item quantity: Presents the total number of items that your customer currently has in their cart.
Cart Summary — 1. Content settings (Screenshot 5)

Result when on live:

Cart Summary — 1. Content settings (Screenshot 6)
  • Subtotal Price: Displays the order subtotal after Shopify product discounts have been applied. It does not include taxes, cart discounts, shipping fees, or other additional charges.
Cart Summary — 1. Content settings (Screenshot 7)

An example when live: Subtotal price = Subtotal of the cart – Total discount.

Cart Summary — 1. Content settings (Screenshot 8)
  • Subtotal of the cart: Show price when the Shopify amount discounts haven’t been applied yet.
Cart Summary — 1. Content settings (Screenshot 9)

For instance, when on live: Subtotal of the cart = Subtotal price + Total discount.

Cart Summary — 1. Content settings (Screenshot 10)
  • Taxes: To include taxes in your product prices, go to Shopify Admin => Taxes and duties. Once enabled, product prices will automatically include taxes based on your customers’ locations.
Cart Summary — 1. Content settings (Screenshot 11)
  • Total Discounts: Displays the total value of all applied discounts, including product, order, shipping, gift card, and more. You can customize the title and text. Use the {{amount}} variable anywhere in the text to display the current discount value.
Cart Summary — 1. Content settings (Screenshot 12)

Note: the discount calculation only works properly with Automatic Discount code.

Cart Summary — 1. Content settings (Screenshot 13)

The video below will give you more details about how an Automatic discount works when the cart page is published to be live.

  • Total price: Show the final price of all the items in the cart after the discounts have been applied.
Cart Summary — 1. Content settings (Screenshot 14)

For example, the last total price of these 2 products.

Cart Summary — 1. Content settings (Screenshot 15)
  • Total compare at price: Show the total compare at price of all of the items in the cart.
Cart Summary — 1. Content settings (Screenshot 16)

=> Result on the live page:

Cart Summary — 1. Content settings (Screenshot 17)
  • Total weight: Show the total weight of all of the items in the cart. We render the weight information from Shopify, so you should edit the weight values by going to Shopify Admin -> Shipping and Delivery settings
    Put the variant {{amount}} to show the active value anywhere in the text.
Cart Summary — 1. Content settings (Screenshot 18)
  • Total savings: Show total savings based on compare at price vs actual price. Only visible when at least one item has a compare at price.
Cart Summary — 1. Content settings (Screenshot 19)

=> Result on the live page: Total Savings = (Total price – Total compared at price) + Total Discount.

Cart Summary — 1. Content settings (Screenshot 20)

2. Design settings

2.1. General

You can change the Alignment, Background, Box Shadow, Border, and Border Radius of the Cart Summary area.

Cart Summary — 2. Design settings (Screenshot 1)
2.2. Title

You can adjust the appearance of the head texts through Typography, Text Color, and Spacing settings.

Cart Summary — 2. Design settings (Screenshot 2)
2.3. Text content

You can edit the style of the content following the head texts via Typography, Text Color, and Spacing settings.

Cart Summary — 2. Design settings (Screenshot 3)

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