Displaying loyalty information in the cart drawer helps customers understand the value they’re about to receive with their next order and never miss the potential rewards they have already received — increasing both engagement and conversion.
With Alpha Loyalty, you can show how many points a customer will earn for their purchase and which rewards they can redeem before checking out.
1. Configure the block in Alpha Loyalty
Before enabling the block inside your theme, first configure how it looks and what it says.
1. Go to Embedded blocks → Points & rewards - Cart drawer in your Alpha Loyalty dashboard and click Customize.
2. Customize your text for signed-in customers and guests. Variables like "Points balance" or "VIP tier" can be used to customize the messages.
If you want to remove an element (for example, a button), simply delete its text in the editor — the element will automatically disappear.
3. Choose colors, icons, fonts, and other visual styles.
4. Save your settings.
Once the block is configured, you can enable it inside your theme.
2. Enable "Points & rewards" in your theme
The "Point & rewards" block for cart drawer is added as an app embed. Here's what you need to do to enable it in your theme.
1. In Alpha Loyalty's Embedded blocks section, click Manage in Theme Editor.
2. You will be taken to the App embeds section of your theme with your cart page template selected and the Alpha Loyalty Cart drawer block enabled.
3. To access your cart drawer preview, click Deactivate inspector and click on the cart icon in the top right corner.
4. Preview how your block appears on the page and click Save.
Notes:
You cannot change the placement of the block. The app embed will be automatically inserted above the checkout button.
Some less common vintage themes require a manual setup.
If this applies to your theme, Alpha Loyalty will display a note with a small code snippet and instructions on where to paste it into your theme files.
If you're unsure how to do this, simply contact us — we’ll be happy to help you get everything set up.