# Create your first cart drawer

> Build a slide-out cart in your store's colors and language, then save it. Building is free on any plan.

Open **Cart Drawer**, click **Create cart drawer**, then click **Use this cart** on the **Your store** card. Change what you like and click **Save**. Any store can build and preview a cart. Showing it to shoppers needs Section Store Plus.

The cart drawer is the cart that slides in from the side of the page. Merchants also call it a side cart, slide cart or mini cart. It replaces your theme's own drawer.

## Create the cart

1. In Shopify admin, open **Apps** → **Section Store** → **Cart Drawer**.
2. Click **Create cart drawer**. The **New cart drawer** page opens with **Pick a cart to start from**.
3. On the **Your store** card, click **Use this cart**. The card is marked **Recommended**.
4. The editor opens. You see your cart on the right, in your theme's colors and button corners. Its text is in your store's main language.
5. Change the blocks you want. To check both views, open the **Preview** card and click **Filled cart** or **Empty cart**.
6. Click **Save**. You see "Cart drawer created."

With Plus and the app embed off, a window opens first: **Cart Drawer isn't enabled in your live theme**. Click **Save anyway** to keep the cart on, or **Save as inactive** to keep it off. A cart that's on can give rewards at checkout even with the embed off.

To show the cart to shoppers, click **Enable cart drawer in theme** on **Cart Drawer**, pick your live theme and click **Save** in the theme editor.

If we can't read your theme's colors, the cart starts on the **Classic** color preset.

## What the new cart includes

- Trust badges built from your store's facts, where it has them.
- Your payment icons.
- A discount line.
- An empty cart with your best sellers and a **Browse products** button.

The **Reward bar**, **Timer**, **Announcement**, **Products upsell**, **Discount code**, **Order note** and **Order addon** blocks are there with their switches off. Turn on the ones you want.

## Does it go live when I save?

- **With Plus, on your first cart:** yes. Your first cart starts switched on. Shoppers see it once the app embed is on in your live theme.
- **Without Plus:** no. The cart saves as off.
- **Any later cart:** no. It starts off, so a new cart never replaces your live one by surprise.

## Other ways to start

- Pick a design from **Cart drawers from top stores** on the same page.
- Click **Create from screenshot** to copy a cart you like.

## If it doesn't work

- **The Save button shows an error about a product:** an **Order addon** is switched on with no product. Pick a product or turn it off.
- **Shoppers don't see the cart after you save:** turn on the cart and its app embed. See the article below.

## Related

- [Turn on your cart drawer](https://section-store.orka.help/a/turn-on-your-cart-drawer)
- [Start a cart drawer from a ready-made template](https://section-store.orka.help/a/144-start-a-cart-drawer-from-a-ready-made-template)
- [Create a cart drawer from a screenshot](https://section-store.orka.help/a/138-create-a-cart-drawer-from-a-screenshot)
- [Does the cart drawer need Plus?](https://section-store.orka.help/a/does-the-cart-drawer-need-plus)

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