Turn on the cart drawer in your theme

Publishing a drawer inside PageFly is not enough on its own — Shopify requires you, the merchant, to turn on the Cart Drawer app embed in your theme editor. No app can do this step for you; it's a Shopify platform restriction, not a PageFly limitation.

If you only publish the drawer in PageFly and skip this step, your storefront cart will keep showing your theme's default drawer. This is the single most common reason a new drawer "doesn't show."

Step 1: Open the app embeds panel

1. From your Shopify admin, go to Online Store > Themes.

2. On your active theme, click Customize.

3. In the theme editor, click the app embeds icon (the puzzle-piece icon) in the top toolbar to open App embeds.

Step 2: Find and enable Cart Drawer

Use the search box to filter the list down to your PageFly app, then find the entry named Cart Drawer.

Cart Drawer app embed, filtered by app name, currently off

Turn the toggle on.

Toggle switched on — not yet saved

If you run more than one PageFly install (for example a staging app alongside your live one), only enable the Cart Drawer embed that belongs to the app you're actually using to build your drawer. Enabling the wrong one won't show your drawer, and enabling both can cause conflicts.

Step 3: Save

Click Save in the top bar of the theme editor. This is the step that actually activates the embed — the toggle alone does nothing until Shopify confirms the save.

Saved: the toggle stays on and the Save button greys out (the "Changes saved" toast fades after a couple seconds)

Step 4: Confirm it worked

Go to your storefront, add a product to your cart, and open the cart. You should see your PageFly drawer, not your theme's default one.

Still seeing your theme's default cart drawer? Go back into your drawer in PageFly, open the Settings tab, and turn on Force replace theme cart drawer, then save and republish the drawer. Some themes aren't on PageFly's automatic compatibility list and need this setting turned on explicitly. This resolves the vast majority of "my drawer isn't showing" cases.

If another cart-drawer app is installed

If you have another app that also manages a cart drawer (for example Oxify, Upcart, or similar), PageFly detects this and shows a warning banner in the builder. Running two cart-drawer apps at once on the same theme can cause a duplicated or broken-looking cart. Disable the other app's cart drawer feature, or its theme app embed, before relying on PageFly's drawer.