Configure the cart
POM provides presentation controls for the navigation cart, dropdown or side cart, and the main Cart page. WooCommerce remains responsible for cart contents, coupons, shipping calculations, totals, and notices.
Configure the navigation cart
- Go to Settings → POM Theme → E-Commerce → Cart and checkout → Dropdown and side cart.
- Enable the navigation cart if the storefront needs it.
- Choose its supported navigation position.
- Select Default dropdown or Side cart.
- Configure the visible labels, colors, and button styles.
- Decide whether to hide the View cart action.
- For a side cart, set its title and choose whether it opens after a product is added.
- Review the empty-cart action.
- Save the settings.
A direct route to Checkout can be useful, but do not remove the Cart route when customers need to review quantities, coupons, shipping, or product options before paying.
Configure the Cart page
Open Settings → POM Theme → E-Commerce → Cart and checkout → Cart layout when that feature section is enabled. Choose the layout that preserves WooCommerce's cart table, totals, notices, coupon form, and checkout action.
Do not replace dynamic cart content with a static page-builder copy. WooCommerce must render the live session state.
Test cart changes
Use a signed-out session and test:
- an empty cart;
- one simple product;
- several products;
- a variable product;
- quantity increases and decreases;
- product removal;
- a valid and invalid coupon;
- shipping recalculation where used;
- an out-of-stock or insufficient-stock response;
- opening, closing, and updating the dropdown or side cart;
- continuing to Cart and Checkout.
Expected result: item count, line totals, subtotal, notices, and available actions agree in the navigation cart, side cart, and Cart page.
Mobile and keyboard review
Confirm that the cart opens and closes without trapping focus, the close control has a clear accessible name, the panel scrolls when content exceeds the viewport, and checkout controls remain visible above browser or cookie overlays.
Troubleshooting
If cart fragments show stale totals, first exclude Cart and Checkout from full-page caching and retest in a fresh session. If direct add-to-cart behavior is confusing for variable products, review the product archive action settings and route customers to the product page when a selection is required.