Hide add to cart button unless logged in - Dawn Theme

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Topic summary

  • Goal: Show only “Add to quote” to logged-out visitors and only “Add to cart” to logged-in customers on product pages.

  • Proposed solution: Use Shopify Liquid conditionals around the buttons to toggle visibility based on login state (the “customer” object). A reply included code and a step-by-step screenshot showing where to edit in the Dawn theme; that screenshot is central to implementation.

  • Constraint: The requester’s theme includes third-party app customizations, so their code structure differs and they’re cautious about making changes that could break the site.

  • Variant enhancement: Another user added a requirement that only customers tagged “wholesale” see the buy/add-to-cart buttons, using: {% if customer and customer.tags contains ‘wholesale’ %}. This provides tighter control over who can check out.

  • Terms: Liquid is Shopify’s templating language; the “customer” object exists only when a user is logged in; customer tags are labels assigned to accounts.

  • Status: No confirmed implementation by the original requester; guidance helped others, but the requester likely needs customization-aware edits. Discussion remains open.

Summarized with AI on January 3. AI used: gpt-5.
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In a nutshell, I have an add to quote and add to cart button placed on my product pages at the moment. I would like only the add to quote button to display to users that are logged out, and only the Add to cart button to display when they are logged in. How would I go about doing this?

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Hello @GoDarkBags
Here is the code Please follow the suggested steps in the screenshot.

Dawn Hide Add to cart if cutomer not logged in .png
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Thank you for this! unfortunately I am not well-versed in coding, and, as we have some third party apps installed, the code does not look identical to what you are showing, so I wouldn’t know how to do this properly without potentially breaking the site

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Thank you. I was having touble finding the page to make this edit (I knew the code to change but not where to put it) and so this explanation was perfect.

As an additional side note, I have added in a requirement that customer accounts are tagged as ‘wholesale’ (my situation) in order to see the buy button / add to cart buttons. This gives me an additional layer of oversight & control as to who can check out.

The extra code is: {% if customer and customer.tags contains ‘wholesale’ %}