Setting up your cart

The cart in eCom allows customers to review their order. It helps customers calculate the total cost after shipping and discounts are selected. By default, your cart has the following settings:

• Taxes are hidden
• Taxes are separate when enabled
• No extra content providing explanations or details
• Upselling is hidden
• Related products are displayed when configured
• The shipping calculator is enabled
• A field is visible to enter discount codes
• The cart progress bar is visible
• Clicking an Add to cart button brings traffic to the cart

Taxes are hidden

When customers add products to the cart, the tax breakdown is not visible. To enable taxes in your cart:

1. Setup your taxes. Follow these instructions:
   • United States or Canada
   • Europe or Australia
2. Enable taxes for your cart.
   1. Login to your eCom Back Office and click Settings.
   2. Click Taxes located in the column labeled Payment Settings.
   3. Enable the switch labeled Show tax in cart.
   4. Click Save.

Tax exclusive example
Taxes hidden (Default)	Taxes visible

Tax inclusive example
Taxes hidden (Default)	Taxes visible

Taxes are separate when enabled

For eCom stores North America, there can be multiple taxes per municipality, state and country. For these stores, taxes are displayed one per line. This feature is unavailable for eCom stores in the European continent or Australia. This feature also affects your checkout. For more information, click here.

To combine taxes in your cart:

1. Setup your taxes.
2. Combine taxes for the cart and checkout.
   1. Login to your eCom Back Office and click Settings.
   2. Click Taxes located in the column labeled Payment Settings.
   3. Enable the switch labeled Combine tax rates at checkout.
   4. Click Save.

Taxes separated (Default)	Taxes combined

No extra content providing explanations or details

Content you could add includes text, images and videos. To add content to your cart page:

1. Login to your eCom Back Office and click Content.
2. Click on the My cart link.
3. Add content to the page and click Save.

For more information about adding custom content, click here.

Video: extra content

Language	Summary	Video
English	Learn how to extra content to your cart page.

Comparison: Extra content

No content (Default)	Custom content added

Upselling is hidden

The cart has no upselling feature by default. For more information about adding upselling to the cart, click here.

Related products are displayed when configured

Related products appear in the cart only when they've been configured.

To disable related products in the cart:

1. Login to your eCom Back Office and click Settings.
2. Click Advanced located in the General Settings column.
3. Scroll to the STORE section and disable the switch labeled Related products.
4. Click Save.

For instructions on configuring related products, click here.

The shipping calculator is enabled

To disable the shipping calculator:

1. Login to your eCom Back Office and click Settings.
2. Click Advanced located in the General Settings column.
3. Scroll to the STORE section and disable the switch labeled Calculate shipping costs.
4. Click Save.

A field is visible to enter discount codes

To disable the discount code field:

1. Login to your eCom Back Office and click Settings.
2. Click Advanced located in the General Settings column.
3. Scroll to the STORE section and disable the switch labeled Discount codes.
4. Click Save.

The cart progress bar is visible

 To disable the cart progress bar:

1. Login to your eCom Back Office and click Settings.
2. Click Advanced located in the General Settings column.
3. Scroll to the STORE section and disable the switch labeled Show progress.
4. Click Save.

Disabling this switch also affects your checkout. See Setting up your checkout for more information.

Clicking an Add to cart button brings traffic to the cart

Keep traffic on the product page after clicking Add to cart:

1. Login to your eCom Back Office and click Settings.
2. Click Advanced located in the General Settings column.
3. Scroll to the STORE section and enable the switch labeled Stay on page.
4. Click Save.