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A cart in Aftersell is a configurable cart-drawer experience made up of blocks. This page walks through creating your first cart and getting it live.

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Create a cart

From the Carts page, click Create cart. Aftersell creates a new cart — named Untitled cart 1, Untitled cart 2, and so on, so each new one gets a distinct name — pre-seeded with a working default layout, and opens it in the cart editor.

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Create a cart with AI

On the Carts page, click Download AI prompt. This downloads a guide file you can give to an AI (Claude, ChatGPT, or similar) along with a description of the cart you want. The AI returns a cart JSON file you can import directly.
  1. Click Download AI prompt on the Carts page.
  2. Open an AI session and attach the downloaded file.
  3. Describe the cart you want — in prose, as a list, or as a screenshot.
  4. The AI returns a .json file. Save it.
  5. Click Import cart on the Carts page and upload the file.
You can also attach an exported cart file alongside the prompt. The AI edits that cart rather than starting from scratch, keeping your existing blocks, upsells, and settings. The default cart contains Header → Banner → Cart items → Summary → Checkout button for the filled state, and Header → Empty cart for the empty state (the empty state’s Header is titled Cart). From there you add, remove, and reorder blocks to build the cart you want.
New carts always start from this blank default layout. To start from an existing cart instead, use the Duplicate action on a cart in the Carts list.

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Name the cart

Rename the cart inline from the editor’s left sidebar — click the name and type. The name saves immediately on its own (it doesn’t wait for the Save button). Blank or whitespace-only names are rejected and revert to the previous name.

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Draft and publish

  • Every new cart is a draft. Drafts aren’t shown to shoppers — you can build and preview them freely. Use Save in the editor to persist your edits.
  • Publish makes the cart live. Because only one cart can be live at a time, publishing a cart moves your current live cart back to draft (see Having multiple carts).
  • Unpublish sets a live cart back to draft. With no live cart, the Aftersell Cart is disabled for shoppers until you publish another.
Publishing to your storefront requires the Complete plan. If your plan doesn’t include it, the Publish button shows a lock badge and a “Requires Complete plan” tooltip. Click Upgrade to Complete to change your plan.

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Grant required permissions

Before you can publish or serve a cart, Aftersell Cart needs a set of additional permissions from your Shopify store. If these haven’t been granted yet, a banner appears at the top of the Carts page:
Finish enabling your cart — AfterSell Cart needs a few additional permissions to publish and serve carts on your storefront. Enable them to get started.
Click Update App in the banner to open the permissions dialog and approve the request. The banner disappears automatically once all permissions are granted.
If you arrive at the Carts page through an onboarding link, the permissions dialog may open automatically so you can approve in one step.

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Turn on the app embed

For a published cart to actually render on your storefront, the Aftersell Cart app embed must be enabled in your theme. If it’s off, the cart won’t show even when published, and the Carts page flags the cart with an “App embed off” badge. The in-app setup guide walks you through the three steps: enable the app embed, create a cart, and publish it.

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Next steps