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Display the total items in your shopping cart in your website header
Display the total items in your shopping cart in your website header

By using the HAPI variables {@cart_quantity@} and {@cart_total@}, you can add an always updated value within your website layout.

Updated over 3 years ago

Adding the cart quanity and/or cart total to your header can be done by following these steps:

  • Go to your website layout

  • Scroll to the body

  • You can now enter the following tags direct in your HTML:{ @ cart_total @ } will return a the sub-total of all items in the shopping cart{ @ cart_quantity @ } will return the total number of items in their shopping cart as a whole number

  • Now click to update your layout and you can now see this value live on your site.


This is noted in the HTML as (please remove spaces between { and @ and } and @ (as HAPI is rendering our docs):

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