Enable the Shopping Cart widget

concept brazil Updated Sep 10, 2026 1 min read enable-shopping-cart.md

The shopping cart widget is enabled automatically for instances upgrading to Istanbul, however, there are several ways to manually enable or disable the widget.

To enable the shopping cart for a catalog item:

Navigate to a catalog item on the Service Catalog page in Service Portal.
CTRL+right-click a catalog item widget to open the widget instance options.
Select or clear the Show Add Cart Button option to enable or disable the shopping cart for that particular catalog item.

[Omitted image "CatalogItemCartOption.png"] Alt text: Catalog item widget with the shopping cart item selected

To enable the shopping cart in the portal header:

From the Service Portal configuration page, select the Portal editor.
Select the SP Header Menu in the portal hierarchy.
In the Additional options section, make sure the enable cart value is set to true.
JSON
```
{	"enable_cart": {		"displayValue": "true",		"value": true	}}
```
Set the value to false to hide the shopping cart.

[Omitted image "HeaderMenuShoppingCart.png"] Alt text: Header menu with shopping cart value set to true in the additional options section

Parent Topic:SC Shopping Cart widget

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---
title: Enable the Shopping Cart widget
description: The shopping cart widget is enabled automatically for instances upgrading to Istanbul, however, there are several ways to manually enable or disable the widget.
locale: en-US
canonical_url: https://www.servicenow.com/docs/r/platform-user-interface/service-portal/enable-shopping-cart.html
release: brazil
product: Service Portal
classification: service-portal
topic_type: concept
last_updated: "2026-09-10"
reading_time_minutes: 1
breadcrumb: [SC Shopping Cart widget, Service Catalog widgets, Widget library, Using portal widgets, Configuring Service Portal, Service Portal, Configure UIs and portals, Configure user experiences]
---

# Enable the Shopping Cart widget

The shopping cart widget is enabled automatically for instances upgrading to Istanbul, however, there are several ways to manually enable or disable the widget.

To enable the shopping cart for a catalog item:

1. Navigate to a catalog item on the Service Catalog page in Service Portal.
2. CTRL+right-click a catalog item widget to open the [widget instance options](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/brazil/markdown/platform-user-interface/service-portal/c_ConfigureWidgetInstances.md).
3. Select or clear the **Show Add Cart Button** option to enable or disable the shopping cart for that particular catalog item.

\[Omitted image "CatalogItemCartOption.png"\] Alt text: Catalog item widget with the shopping cart item selected

To enable the shopping cart in the portal header:

1. From the Service Portal configuration page, select the Portal editor.
2. Select the SP Header Menu in the portal hierarchy.
3. In the **Additional options** section, make sure the enable cart value is set to **true**.

```
{
"enable_cart": {
"displayValue": "true",
"value": true
}
}
```

Set the value to **false** to hide the shopping cart.

\[Omitted image "HeaderMenuShoppingCart.png"\] Alt text: Header menu with shopping cart value set to true in the additional options section

**Parent Topic:**[SC Shopping Cart widget](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/brazil/markdown/platform-user-interface/service-portal/sc-shopping-cart.md)

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