---
title: Cart
url: https://support.troopthemes.com/guide/emerge/cart/
theme: Emerge
theme_styles: Cafe, Elements
---

# Cart in Emerge

**Edit theme** → **Theme settings** → **Cart**.

![Emerge Cart in Theme settings](https://support.troopthemes.com/_images/emerge/cart--settings.jpg)

## Theme settings → Cart (Emerge)

- **Cart label**: **Cart** or **Bag**, the icon and wording used for the cart trigger throughout the theme.
- **Cart type**: **Page** sends customers to a dedicated cart page. **Drawer** opens the cart in a slide-out panel without leaving the page.
- **Checkout button style**: pick from your four button styles ([Buttons and inputs](https://support.troopthemes.com/guide/emerge/buttons-and-inputs/)) for the cart's checkout button specifically.
- **Enable order notes**: adds a note field to the cart so customers can leave instructions. See Shopify's [order notes](https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/online-store/themes/customizing-themes/common-customizations/add-order-notes) guide for how this differs from cart attributes and line item properties.

### Free shipping calculator (Emerge)

- **Enable**: turns the progress message on or off.
- **Limit**: the order subtotal that qualifies for free shipping. Numbers only, no currency symbol.
- **Before reaching limit**: message shown while under the limit. Insert `[$]` to show the remaining amount automatically.
- **After reaching limit**: message shown once the customer qualifies.

This calculator is a message only, it does not create or apply a shipping discount. Set up the matching rate in **Settings** → **Shipping and delivery**; see Shopify's [setting up shipping rates](https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/fulfillment/setup/shipping-rates/setting-up-shipping-rates) guide for how to configure a free-shipping rate that actually applies at checkout.

### Empty cart (Emerge)

- **Enable**: shows a list of links when the cart has nothing in it.
- **Custom link list**: which menu to show. Dropdown items in that menu do not appear, top-level links only.

## Troubleshooting (Emerge)

- **Cart opens as a drawer when I wanted a page (or the reverse)**: **Cart type** in **Theme settings** → **Cart**.
- **Free shipping message shows the wrong amount, or shows for everyone**: check **Limit**. It is a plain number, no currency symbol or letters.
- **Customers reached the limit but nothing changed at checkout**: this is expected. The free shipping bar is a message only. Create the actual free shipping rate in **Settings** → **Shipping and delivery**.
- **Empty cart shows the wrong links**: the assigned menu has the wrong links, or has dropdown items that are not appearing (expected, only top-level links show).
- **Checkout is unchanged**: expected. Checkout is not the theme.