Allow customers to update cart within cart drawer

Store Design
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Topic summary

A store owner wants customers to edit product quantities and remove items directly from the cart drawer. They currently use an app for this functionality, but it conflicts with another app they need to install.

Current situation:

  • Two cart versions are visible on the site (gray app-based version and blue native theme version)
  • This dual display is confusing for customers

Expert response:

  • No universal “native Shopify cart drawer” exists—functionality depends on the specific theme being used
  • Without an app, enabling quantity editing in the cart drawer requires advanced theme customization

Suggested alternatives:

  • Disable the cart drawer entirely and use the full cart page instead (fastest solution)
  • Pursue custom theme development if drawer functionality is essential

The discussion remains open, with the expert requesting additional context (store URL, theme name, post URLs) to provide more specific guidance.

Summarized with AI on November 15. AI used: claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929.
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Hello,

We would like our customers to be able to update the quantity of products in their cart and to remove items from within their Cart Drawer. We have downloaded an app that accomplishes this based on recommendations from our old dev, but this app is now preventing installation of another app that we would like to have.

Is there a way to make this available within the native shopify drawer? The Gray version is the app that makes edits available the Blue is the native Shopify version. Both are actually visible on our website which can be confusing to customers.

Website is incredpets.com

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Hello @incredpets

the native shopify drawer

There is no such thing as the native shopify drawer, only the UI features built into the theme that a store uses for the online sales channel.

Without an app it would be an advanced customization to expose that in the cart drawer.

The fastest alternative ,depending on theme, is to disable the cart drawer and use the full cart page.

If you need this theme customization then contact me by mail by clicking here or using the contact Info in signature.
Please always provide context, examples: store url, theme name, post url(s) , or any further detail.