Cart styles

Story includes a set of modern cart designs which have powerful functionality

Story's high functionality cart designs include features like a free shipping progress bar to encourage shoppers to add more items to the cart, an upsell promotion, available stock messaging, clean and easy-to-use quantity options, and removing items from the cart.

Explore the different styles and features included with Story:

Drawer style

Modern slide-out design, activates when item is aded to the cart
Center of screen popup design, activates when item is added to cart

Drawer and Popup carts

Not suitable for:

  • When using third-party cart-related apps that conflict with functionality

  • Displaying quick checkout buttons like Apple Pay, Amazon Pay, PayPal (these buttons by default appear in the next screen, the main checkout)

Page style

The page style cart is ideal for a full-screen cart and is not automatically activated when items are added to the cart. This can be useful for customers who are adding multiple items to the cart without the distraction of the cart appearing each time.

Full page cart with dynamic functionality

Page style cart

Cart is manually activated by clicking the cart icon. Does not automatically activate each time an item is added to the cart. A checkmark is used to inform the customer that an item has been successfully added to the cart.

App compatible page

This option is designed to be used with other third-party apps that take control of the cart or have special code used in the cart and cannot use dynamic features of the Story cart. Use this cart style for the most compatibility with apps or custom coding done by developers.

Most compatible with third-party apps and custom coding

App compatible cart

  • Uses an Update cart link to refresh quantity and removal of items in the cart

  • Cart is manually activated by clicking the cart icon. Does not automatically activate each time an item is added to the cart. A checkmark is used to inform the customer that an item has been successfully added to the cart.

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