What happens to my cart drawer when Plus ends?

When Plus ends, shoppers get your theme's own cart again. Checkout gives no cart rewards. Your carts stay saved. After you subscribe again, check that your cart still shows Active. A cart that shows Draft stays off until you turn on its switch.

When Plus ends

• You cancel during the trial: Plus ends at once.
• You cancel a paid plan: Plus ends when the paid period ends.

What stops

• The drawer, the reward bar, upsells and gifts stop showing to shoppers. Shopify stops offering the Cart drawer app embed.
• Checkout gives no free shipping, order discount or free gift, even with the cart still switched on.

A shopper with a gift already in their cart pays for it, since the discount no longer applies.

What stays

• Your carts and their settings stay in the app.
• While the cart is on, the Section Store Cart discount stays listed as active in Shopify Discounts. It gives nothing, but it keeps a slot in Shopify's limit.

To free that slot, turn off the cart:

1. In Shopify admin, open Apps → Section Store → Cart Drawer.
2. Turn off the switch next to your cart.

Turning a cart off works without Plus. It stays off until you subscribe and turn it on again.

Careful after you cancel

The editor counts your store as having no Plus right away. The switch opens the Plus window, and saving the cart turns it off. So does a save by an AI assistant. Shoppers keep the drawer until the paid period ends, unless you save it off.

Did your cart go off in that window? It stays off, even with paid days left. Only Plus turns it back on. Pick one:

• On Cart Drawer, click the cart's switch. Click the button in the Plus window and approve the charge in Shopify. We switch on that cart for you.
• Click Subscribe, then Subscribe again, and approve the charge in Shopify. Then turn on the cart's switch.

Both start a new subscription on your current plan and price. Billing starts when you approve. You get no credit for the days you already paid for. If you can do without the cart until then, subscribing after the paid period ends wastes no paid days.

How a cart goes off without Plus

Your settings stay, but the cart's switch can go off. This happens when:

• You save the cart in the editor. Any save without Plus turns the cart off.
• An update was still waiting when Plus ended. A background retry then turns the cart off.
• Your store has no Section Store Cart discount. A nightly check turns a live cart off in that case. A store gets this discount the first time a live cart has its Reward bar on.

When you subscribe again

• The cart shows Active: it comes back for shoppers by itself, and so do its rewards. The app embed must still be on in your live theme.
• The cart shows Draft: it stays off. Turn it on:

1. In Shopify admin, open Apps → Section Store → Cart Drawer.
2. Turn on the switch next to your cart. The status changes to Active.

Without Plus, that switch opens the Plus window. Start Plus there and we switch on that cart for you.

Bundles come back the same way. A draft bundle stays a draft until you click Publish.

Related

• Does the cart drawer need Plus?
• What is the Section Store Cart discount?
• What happens to my cart drawer if I uninstall the app?

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