I am working on a headless redesign of a client’s store. The current Liquid Cart Form is capturing custom data using line_item.properties . These properties get displayed on both the cart screen and the checkout page. I do not see line_item.properties listed for the Cart or Checkout objects in the…

After working on my test app some more, it seems like I misread the API docs and the custom attributes are applied to the cart as a whole and not the individual cart line items. I was hopping to find a way to attach custom information to each item in the cart, much like you can do with custom proper…

@WadeA Would you be so kind and share how you did this? I’m trying to add a custom property to products (that is not a variant/option) and display it in the cart and checkout. I can’t find a way to add this to the items in the cart object. Any help hugely appreciated.

A cart in Shopify has attributes. cart attributes. An attribute is a key:value pair. You can easily POST to the cart with these key:values and store them for later use with the order, since in the order they show up nicely as order attributes. So unlike using the line item properties of the product,…

@HunkyBill as @WadeA mentions: I was hopping to find a way to attach custom information to each item in the cart, much like you can do with custom properties in the liquid cart This is what’s needed, it seems like cart attributes apply to the cart as a whole, right? So it does’t sound like it is…

I setup custom engraving for products in 2006, 2007, and on. Earliest hacks on Shopify. Once Shopify introduced line item properties, it became rub-a-dub-dub three men in a tub easy. Just do that. It is a no brainer. Capture an engraving data set, assign it the line item you send to the cart, and yo…

@benbr3 I think your code example is similar to mine. My code is from a hardcoded example I was building in NuxtJS. I am passing a variantID, quantity, and a custom attributes to the AddToCart mutation. Those line item attributes show up on both the cart and checkout page below the product. You can…

How do I capture Cart Line Item Properties using the Storefront API?

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WadeA September 21, 2021, 4:59pm 3

I was adding my attributes to the Cart and not the Cart Line Items. Once I added attributes to the Cart Lines, they showed up on the checkout page underneath the Product Variant name

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How do I capture Cart Line Item Properties using the Storefront API?

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