Addy vs iCart: Shopify Cart Drawer Compared

iCart and Addy both turn the Shopify cart into a place to grow the order. Compare a drafted drawer, gifts, shipping goals, delivery dates and carts by market.

Addy app icon on the left and the iCart app icon on the right

Key takeaways

  • iCart is a cart-drawer suite: upsells, gifts and shipping goals on one surface.
  • Addy drafts the drawer from the catalogue, then lets markets and customer tags change it.
  • A delivery date, a quantity offer and a gift can all live next to the line items.

iCart became a familiar name because it put the cart programme in one app: the slide-out, the extra product, the gift, the shipping goal. Addy is that programme with a shorter first afternoon. The drawer is drafted from your products and your brand. You keep the blocks that match how you sell, and you publish before the season moves on.

A well-known cart app and a cart that is live are different things. The drawer that makes money is the one a merchant can ship this week, then tighten once real adds are coming in.

The cart is the last calm sales floor

The shopper has already chosen something. The drawer is the last place they are still in your store, still able to add, still able to understand a threshold. iCart is built for that floor. Addy is too, and it assumes you would rather edit a competent cart than assemble one from an empty stack.

What belongs there depends on the catalogue. Apparel often wants a second size or a care product. Beauty wants the next step in the routine. Food wants a larger quantity at a better unit price. Addy can show frequently bought together, a cross-sell, volume pricing, buy-one-get-one and a free gift, with progress so the reward is visible. A free-shipping bar can sit in the same drawer. You are not explaining two widgets that do not know about each other.

More than 40 blocks cover the usual pieces, and custom HTML and CSS cover the piece that is yours alone. Preview it on the theme before it is public. The words can be translated, and prices follow the shopper's currency.

Tell them when it arrives

Checkout is a bad place to reveal a delivery window. The shopper has already done the work, and a disappointing date is an abandoned payment. Addy can show an estimated delivery date beside the line items. If the date is the problem, they can still change the order. If the date is fine, they check out with one less doubt.

Stores that promise a gift deadline, a subscription start, or a weekend delivery feel the difference immediately. Everyone else still benefits, because "when?" is a universal question and the cart is the natural place to answer it.

Markets are not one threshold

If you sell in more than one country, one free-shipping number will be wrong somewhere. If logged-in wholesale customers share a theme with retail, one gift will be wrong for somebody. Addy lets you run a cart per market and per customer tag. When only the gift should change, the rule can sit on that block and the rest of the drawer stays put.

The cart stays out of the way while the product page loads. Shoppers came for the product. The drawer earns its place when they open it.

Addy and iCart

FeatureAddyiCart
PriceFree to install, with no order capFirst 100 orders free, then $9, $19 and $29 a month
First layoutDrafted from your catalogue and brandA sticky cart you configure, with AI recommendations inside it
Delivery dateShown in the drawerNot included
Who sees which cartA different cart, or one block, by Market and by customer tagOne cart for the store
Past the presets40+ blocks, plus your own HTML and CSSA customizable sticky cart
Volume pricingBuy-more-save-more tiers, BOGO and gifts, with no order capVolume discounts and BOGO, until the store passes 100 orders

Publish the competent version

Ship the draft, remove the blocks that do not match the catalogue, and set one threshold you can defend. A $50 shipping goal that your margin can afford beats a $50 goal you copied from a thread. Addy will show the bar. You still own the number.

Read how a cart drawer earns the click before you stack rewards. If the threshold logic should live in its own app, Goalify can run the goals while Addy remains the cart.

Frequently asked questions

Is Addy the same kind of app as iCart?

Both replace the cart page with a drawer that can upsell. Addy adds a drafted layout, a delivery date in the cart, and cart rules by market and customer tag.

Can one drawer show shipping progress and a gift?

Yes. Shipping progress, free gifts, buy-one-get-one and volume deals are blocks in the same drawer.

What does it cost to start?

Addy is free to install. You can publish a drawer before you pick a paid plan.

Ninety9 Team

We build 5 conversion apps used by Shopify merchants in Bulgaria and beyond. Everything we write here comes out of what we see in real store data.

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