As of the 30th of march Yahoo! released a new store feature called a floating cart. now a floating cart allows your customer to see what and how much they have in the shopping cart without going to the shopping cart, that is less clicks for your customer and in turn less likely to leave your store without buying something. now if you have a store that uses stock templates then all you need to do is go into the floating cart manager and select the show options then save and publish but if you have custom templates then it will be more work. let me walk you through a few of the ways you can get the floating cart (or FC for short) into your store with out hiring it out!

well I will start with “you have custom templates but they are just a copy of the stock with some work done” option, this step can be really easy but it all depends on what you have done in the store so far and keep in mind that this is all JavaScript based and any 3rd party JS file can effect this add-on, but what you would need to do is in the FC manager you need to click on the manual install tab then click on that little arrow in option 2. in that option there is 2 parts to this code and i need you to highlight each one and copy to notepad (NOT MS word) the code should look like this.

with both of those all you need to do from here is paste it into “Tagline content” in the store variables. (keep in mind that the code above is store specific and will not work in your store) Now with the RTML it will get easy and harder at the same time, in this post I will assume that you know some RTML or you would not be reading this blog and if you don’t know RTML play with it and read my post on getting started with RTML. You will start with finding you main template, most of the time it is right at the top of the page and will be named “storetemplate”, “custom-template”, “page” or “home” and it might be named something else too. what you need to do is find the body tag and click on it. from there goto “new” find “FC_LOADER” and select that. then click “paste within”. next click “new” again and find “FC_BAR” select that and hit “paste after” now view your store and see how it turns out. that should help you out. take that same skill and you can move the Floating cart to any position on the page. Have Fun!

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