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How to add product upsells to the cart

How to add product upsells to the cart


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Upsells suggest more products right in the cart drawer, in a "You might also like" section. Customers add a suggested product with one click, without leaving the cart.


How upsells work


Each upsell offer decides which products to suggest. You can create several offers, and all their products are shown together in one section. There are four types of offers:


  • Shopify product recommendations: Shopify picks related products automatically, based on a shopper's behavior and order history.
  • One more cheapest product from the cart: suggests buying another one of the cheapest product in the cart.
  • One more expensive product from the cart: suggests buying another one of the most expensive product in the cart.
  • Manual upsell offer: you choose which products to suggest and when.


Turn on upsells


  1. Open ShopCart and click Edit in the Cart Drawer card.
  2. Turn on the Upsells toggle on the left.
  3. Click Save at the top of the editor.


Create an upsell offer


  1. Click Upsell 1 under Upsells. To create one more offer, click Add new upsell.
  2. In Select type, choose the type of offer.
  3. For Manual upsell offer, set the rule:
    • When buy this: Any products, Specific product or Specific collection in the cart.
    • Then show this: a Specific product or a Specific collection to suggest. Click Add to choose the products.
  5. Click Save.




For example, suggest snowboard bindings when a snowboard from the Snowboards collection is in the cart.


A warning icon next to a product means "One or more items are out of stock." To pause an offer without deleting it, click the eye icon (Hide upsell offer) next to its name. To remove it, click Delete offer.


Choose how upsells look


Click Upsells to set the options for all offers:


  • Display type: Slider shows the products one by one with arrows, List shows them one under another, and Bar shows them in a separate panel next to the cart drawer.
  • Max upsell offers count: limits how many products are shown.
  • Show variant selector: lets customers choose a variant, for example a color, before adding the product.
  • Content: the section title and the text of the Add button.
  • Discount badge: the "Save" badge for products with a compare-at price.




To change colors, open the Styles tab.


What customers see


The suggested products appear in the "You might also like" section of the cart. When a customer clicks Add, the product goes into the cart and disappears from the suggestions.




To show upsells after the purchase too, on the checkout, thank you and order status pages, use our ReSell app. You'll find it in ShopCart under Checkout upsell.


✔️ Next step


Check our articles to learn more about the app's functionality:


Updated on: 20/10/2026

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