Customize General Settings in Modern Cart

Modern Cart for WooCommerce allows you to control the core display and cart behavior through its General panel. These options help you define how the cart appears on your store and which features you want to enable or disable.

This documentation explains how to access and configure the General settings.

Access General Settings

From your WordPress dashboard, go to WooCommerce > Modern Cart, then click on the General tab from the left side of the settings window.

Here, you’ll find the following options:

1. Enable Modern Cart

Choose where to show the floating cart icon. You can select to show it on the entire site, only on WooCommerce pages, or disable it completely.

2. Cart Style

Choose a cart style from six available designs (Style 1 to Style 6) to best match your store layout.
Frontend view

3. Cart Header Style

Pick a cart header design from two available styles (Style 1 and Style 2) that best suits your store’s look and feel.
Frontend view

4. Order Summary Style

Choose how the order summary appears inside the cart tray. Select from two available styles (Style 1 and Style 2) that fit your store’s layout and shopping experience.
Frontend view

5. Cart Auto-Open Behavior

Automatically open the cart after a product is added to help users review their items easily, great for faster checkouts! Refer to this doc to learn more about this feature.

6. Increase AOV with Product Recommendation

Select a group of products you want to recommend in the cart tray. Only simple products are supported. Products already in the cart are automatically excluded from the recommendations. Refer to this doc to learn more about how this feature works.
Frontend view

7. Product Recommendation Source for Empty Cart

Choose where the recommended products should be pulled from when the cart is empty. Options include:

• Disable
• From Upsell
• From Featured
• From Cross Sells

Refer to this doc to learn more about how this feature works.

Frontend view

8. Display Coupon Field

Choose how you want the coupon field to appear in the cart tray:

• Disabled – Hides the coupon field.
• Minimize – Shows the field collapsed by default.
• Expand – Shows the field in full view.

Frontend view

9. Enable Free Shipping Bar

Toggle this option to display a progress bar showing how close the cart is to qualifying for free shipping. If you haven’t set up Free Shipping in WooCommerce yet, refer to this doc for setup steps.
Frontend view

10. Show Shipping

Enable this to display the shipping cost in the cart tray.
Frontend view

11. Show Subtotal

Enable this to display a subtotal line in the cart tray.
Frontend view

12. Show Total

Enable this to display the total amount in the cart tray.
Frontend view

13. Show Discount

Enable this to display the discount in the cart tray, after the coupon is entered.
Frontend view

14. Show Tax

Enable this to display the tax in the cart tray, if any.
Frontend view

Note: All changes are saved automatically, there is no save button in the settings panel.