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title: "Handling your Acquia Commerce Manager cart block"
date: "2024-02-14T06:18:38+00:00"
summary: "Discover how to effectively manage your Acquia Commerce Manager cart block. Learn about its display features, including itemized breakdowns, discounts, and totals. Optimize your e-commerce experience with expert tips."
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The _cart block_ provides an itemized breakdown of the contents of a cart.

The cart block is for display purposes, and has the following characteristics:

*   Summarizes the cart with an itemized list, with each item’s quantity and price
    
*   Displays any applied discounts
    
*   Indicates both the subtotal of the cart’s added items (before discounts) and the overall total cost
    
*   Does not allow you to update the quantities of items
    

The default implementation uses the theme for table to handle displaying the cart contents. The cart object is not added to the render array, so if you are altering the table that is used you will need to access the cart object from the cart storage service.

Important

You cannot have a cart block and a [cart form block](/resource-archive/commerce/cart/cart-form-block) on the same webpage, as this will prevent the cart form block from updating correctly.