New Features
đ 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 â personalized or curated â right inside the cart drawer when it's empty.
Recommendation types
Choose from six recommendation strategies depending on your store's needs:
đ Recently viewed: Shows products the customer viewed earlier in their current session.
đ Specific collections: You select which collections to feature. Random products from those collections are shown.
đ Specific products: Precise product selection â including individual variants of a product.
đ 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 â see below.
Variant-level selection: When using Specific products, you can now select individual variants â 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 â including the Reward bar (if configured for empty carts) and all enabled recommendation blocks, centered inside the Cart Drawer.