New Features
👉 Empty cart recommendations
Cartly now lets you turn an empty cart into a discovery moment. A new Empty cart recommendations tab has been added to the Upsell section, allowing you to display product suggestions — personalized or curated — right inside the cart drawer when it's empty.
Recommendation types
Choose from six recommendation strategies depending on your store's needs:
🕐 Recently viewed: Shows products the customer viewed earlier in their current session.
📂 Specific collections: You select which collections to feature. Random products from those collections are shown.
📌 Specific products: Precise product selection — including individual variants of a product.
🔗 Redirect to collections: Shows collection images and names. Clicking takes the customer to that collection page.
✨ Smart recommendations (when available)
If smart recommendations aren't available for a session, Cartly falls back to your selected standard recommendation type. Includes Abandoned cart and Recently purchased sub-options — see below.
Variant-level selection: When using Specific products, you can now select individual variants — not just the product as a whole. This also applies to the Upsell feature.
Abandoned cart & recently purchased
Two additional options are available under Smart recommendations:
Abandoned cart: shows products left in the customer's cart from their last session. Available for all customers with stored cart data.
Recently purchased: suggests items the customer has bought before. Available for logged-in customers only.
Read details of how to set up product recommendations in an empty cart.
Preview: Selecting Empty cart recommendations in the left menu automatically switches the Cartly preview to show the empty cart state — including the Reward bar (if configured for empty carts) and all enabled recommendation blocks, centered inside the Cart Drawer.