Add a free gift to the cart reward bar

Click Add tier in the Reward bar, pick Free gift and choose your gift products. When a cart reaches the threshold, the drawer adds the gift by itself. Shopify makes it free at checkout.

Using ChatGPT, Claude or another AI assistant? On a Plus store with no carts yet, the first cart and its rewards go live at once. Confirm the amount first. See Build a cart drawer with an AI assistant.

Before you start

The gift is a real product in your store. It must be active, in stock and available on your online store. Shoppers buy it at $0, so it uses your inventory.

Set it up

1. In Shopify admin, open Apps → Section Store → Cart Drawer.
2. Click Edit on your cart.
3. Under Body, open the Reward bar card. Its switch must be on.
4. Under Tiers, click Add tier and pick Free gift.
5. Set Title. Leave variables out of it, because checkout prints the title as you typed it.
6. Set Min price. With Unlock by on Item quantity, the field reads Min quantity.
7. Under Free gifts, click Select products.
8. In Shopify's picker, tick your gift and the variants you allow. To change them later, click Select products again.
9. Set the quantity on the gift's row.
10. Click Save.
11. Add products past the threshold on your storefront. The gift appears with a Free gift tag and the price FREE.

How gifts behave

• The gift has no quantity control and no remove button.
• If the cart drops below the threshold, the drawer removes the gift.
• If you allow several variants, the shopper picks one on the gift row. Each unit gets its own picker.
• A tier gives every product in it. Shoppers can't choose between products. To offer a choice, use one product with several variants.
• Every unlocked gift tier adds its gifts, so gifts stack.
• Gifts never count toward the threshold.

What gifts need

• The drawer script. Only the drawer adds gift lines, so the app embed must be on. It runs on your cart page too.
• The cart. A shopper who uses Buy it now skips the cart and gets no gift.

A shopper adds the same product

They pay for the one they add, and it counts toward the threshold. It sits on its own line, apart from the free one.

If it doesn't work

• The tier doesn't show on the bar: it has no product or no variants. You see "No gift products selected" or "No variants selected" in the tier.
• The gift isn't added: see the article below.
• The gift has a price at checkout: see the article below.

Related

• Why wasn't the free gift added to the cart?
• Why is the free gift charged at checkout?
• Do cart rewards work with Buy it now?

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