Using Shopify Sidekick with Slide Cart

Learn how to use Shopify Sidekick to check how your cart is performing and build upsells from your store data — without leaving the Shopify admin.

What is Shopify Sidekick?

Shopify Sidekick is Shopify's AI assistant built into the Shopify admin. It lets you interact with Shopify and supported apps using plain-language prompts, so you can ask questions and get things done by typing what you want.

What the Slide Cart x Sidekick integration does

With Slide Cart installed, Sidekick can answer questions about your cart and upsell performance and help you build new upsells — all in conversation. There are two things you can do:

Ask how Slide Cart is performing — get your cart and upsell numbers back in plain language.
Build upsells from your store data — ask Sidekick to pick the best products to upsell, and Slide Cart sets up the offers for you to review and save.

How it works

Once Slide Cart is installed on your store, Sidekick can access your Slide Cart data. There's nothing extra to set up — open Sidekick in your Shopify admin and ask a question.

From your Shopify admin, open Sidekick from the top bar.
Type a question about your cart performance, or ask Sidekick to build an upsell. Mention Slide Cart in your prompt so Sidekick knows which app to use.
Sidekick asks for your consent to access Slide Cart data before it answers or makes anything. Click Yes to continue (or Yes, and don't ask again to skip the prompt next time).
For questions, Sidekick replies with data pulled straight from Slide Cart.
When you ask Sidekick to build upsells, it opens Slide Cart so you can review the suggested offers and save the ones you want. Nothing goes live until you confirm.

1. Ask how Slide Cart is performing

Ask Sidekick about your cart and upsells and get your own Slide Cart numbers back. This is read-only — it reports your data and doesn't change any settings.

You can ask about:

Upsell revenue — how much extra revenue Slide Cart's upsells have brought in.
Top upsells — which of your upsell offers are performing best.
AOV impact — how Slide Cart has affected your average order value.
Cart activity — how often your cart drawer is opened and how those carts convert.

Example prompts

"How much extra revenue has Slide Cart made me this month?"
"What are my top-performing upsells?"
"How has Slide Cart affected my average order value?"

2. Build upsells from your store data

Ask Sidekick to pick the best products to upsell, and Slide Cart builds the offers for you. Instead of choosing products by hand, you get suggestions based on your real store data, ready to review and save.

Slide Cart can base its picks on:

Margin — profit per unit, when Cost per item is entered on your product variants. This is the strongest signal, so it's worth filling in costs if you haven't.
Sales velocity — units sold over the last 7, 30, or 90 days. Proven movers make safer upsells.
Revenue contribution — total revenue per product, a signal of what customers are willing to pay for.
Inventory level — stock on hand. Push well-stocked products, or clear slow-moving stock.
Average order value correlation — products that tend to appear in larger orders.

You can name the signal you care about, or let Sidekick choose. The strongest combination is usually high margin plus high sales velocity — products that sell well and earn the most per unit.

Example prompts

"Pick the best upsell to increase my AOV and explain your approach."
"Build upsells from my highest-margin products."
"Suggest upsells from my fastest-selling products this month."
"Which products should I upsell to clear slow-moving stock?"

After Sidekick suggests the offers, review them in Slide Cart and save the ones you want to go live.

Considerations

No setup is needed on the Slide Cart side — Sidekick can access your Slide Cart data automatically once the app is installed.
Sidekick pulls live data, so responses reflect your current cart performance and product data.
Margin-based picks need Cost per item. If your product variants don't have costs entered, Slide Cart can't calculate margin. Add costs on your variants to unlock margin-based upsell suggestions — Sidekick can also flag which products are worth adding costs to.
Upsells are never created without your say-so. Sidekick suggests the offers; you review and save them in Slide Cart.