The Add to Cart feature allows customers to add products directly from the Manifest product cards—without navigating to individual product pages. This creates a faster, smoother shopping experience and helps reduce drop-offs.
What this feature does?
When enabled, an Add to Cart button appears on product cards after a customer performs a product search. Customers can view variants, prices, selling plans, and then add items to their cart instantly.
Manifest supports two ways of opening the cart:
1. Open Cart Page
Opens the /cart page in a new tab.
2. Open Slide-In Cart
Opens your Shopify store’s slide-in cart on the same page.
To use this mode, you must provide the unique ID or class name of your store’s cart element.
Additionally, the modal displays:
Product image
Product name
Price (updates dynamically if variant changes)
All available variants (showing Out of stock where applicable)
Selling plans (if configured on Shopify)
Conditional Add to Cart Visibility
If you want to hide the Add to Cart button for specific products, use the metafield:
Key: add_to_cart_visibility
false → Button will NOT be visible
true → Button WILL be visible
This gives you flexibility to decide which products should allow direct cart actions.
Add to Cart Modal Workflow
When customers click Add to Cart, they will see a modal showing:
Product image
Product title
Dynamic price (based on selected variant)
Available variants and stock status
Selling plans (if any)
After the product is added:
A Checkout button appears
If they close the modal, a message is triggered:
“You have added <Product Name> to cart. Would you like to checkout or explore something else?”
Along with:Go to cart
Ask me anything
The cart icon appears at the top of the chat window for quick access
The confirmation message does not trigger during journey-flow product recommendations.
How to Enable Add to Cart
Go to the Manifest dashboard
Navigate to Behaviour → Assistant conversation behaviour
Enable Add to cart
To use slide-in cart, enter your Shopify cart element’s ID or class
Click Save changes
Open your Shopify store
Launch the Manifest assistant and perform a product search
You will now see Add to Cart buttons in product cards
Select a variant → Click Add to Cart
After successful addition, click Checkout, or close the modal
When closed, the follow-up message and options appear
Use the cart icon at the top of the chat window to complete checkout anytime
Cart page will be opened based on the settings
How to Find Your Cart’s Unique Identifier
Open your Shopify storefront
Right-click → Inspect
Go to Elements tab
Click on your cart icon
Check if it uses:
an ID → use #id-name
a class → use .class-name
How to Hide Add to Cart for Specific Products
Go to Shopify Admin
Open Settings → Metafields & Metaobjects → Products
Click Add definition
Name: add_to_cart_visibility
Namespace and key: manifest.add_to_cart_visibility
Type: Single line text
Click Save
Open the product you want to hide
Under metafields, set add_to_cart_visibility = false
Save
Refresh Manifest and check—the Add to Cart button will no longer appear for that product.
FAQs
1) Does the Add to Cart modal show all variants?
Yes. All available variants appear.
Out-of-stock variants are shown as disabled and display “Out of stock.”
2) Can selling plans (subscriptions) be added to cart?
Yes. Selling plans will also appear in the modal if configured in Shopify.
3) Can I hide Add to Cart only for a few products?
Yes. Use the product metafield:
add_to_cart_visibility = false.
4) Will Add to Cart work during journey flows?
Yes, but the follow-up confirmation message is not shown within journey-flow product recommendations.
For further assistance or to raise feature requests related to Add to Cart, please contact [email protected].