We've released an improvement to the way the shopping cart works for your site visitors. 

When visitors decide to put an item in the cart and then "Continue Shopping", they need a way to get back into the cart if they decide not to buy anything else.  Our previous solution to this involved a black bar at the top of your website and used a technology that increasingly doesn't work as well on the modern web and doesn't work very well on mobile.  Our old solution also broke the URLs in the browser bar in a way that didn't look very good and made sharing links with friends or family more difficult.

This change fixes that.  The black bar has been replaced with a prominent, and nicely styled little "slide out" tab.  It also sports a quick preview so visitors can see what's in their cart without going all the way into the cart.  This is a common pattern on many ecommerce platforms and should feel very familiar to site visitors.

This change only applies to our latest generation of templates.  If you're still using a very old template the cart behavior will continue to work as it always has, which is sub-optimal in 2021 (and you should upgrade your  template).

Here's what the cart tab looks when closed like on desktop:

Here's what the cart tab looks like when slid open on desktop:

Here's what the cart tab looks like when closed on mobile:

Here's what the cart tab looks like when slid open on mobile: