Add to Cart buttons – they may be small, but no online retail store can do without them. These little, rectangular, sometimes colorful clickables connect the product to the shopping cart and are an extension of your branding. It’s important to put some thought into what your “Add to Cart” icon looks like in your shopping cart.
We’ve collected over 100 Add to Cart buttons from the top online retailers of 2006 to give you some design inspiration. And we’ve summarized some usability guidelines that you can apply to your own Add to Cart button. Ok, there are actually 111 shopping cart icons, but 107 just looked cooler.
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And now for some stats, because percentages make it cooler.
| Button Text | Button Graphics | |||
| Add to Cart | 58.0% | None | 48.2% | |
| Add to Bag | 9.8% | Arrows | 17.9% | |
| Add to Shopping Bag | 9.8% | Cart | 14.3% | |
| Add to Basket | 6.3% | Shopping Bag | 7.1% | |
| Add to Shopping Cart | 4.5% | Plus Sign | 5.4% | |
| Buy | 2.7% | Combo | 4.5% | |
| Buy Now | 1.8% | Unique | 1.8% | |
| Add Item(s) to Cart | 1.8% | |||
| Add Item(s) to Bag | 0.9% | |||
| Add to My Bag | 0.9% | |||
| Add to My Brown Bag | 0.9% | |||
| Add to My Shopping Cart | 0.9% | |||
| Order Now | 0.9% |
How the Add To Cart Button Can Reinforce Your Branding
At first the “Add to Cart” button may seem like a minor detail, but it has the potential to create an emotional connection with your brand. Your choice of shape, color, font and button text all affect that connection.
Urban Outfitters’ felt pen lettering echoes the brand’s edgy, street persona (it may however be at the expense of findability as it does nothing to stand out on the screen). Northerntool’s plus sign icon resembles a screwdriver head. Petsmart’s little red doggie ball is fun, playful and instantly recognizable. Bloomingdale’s signature “big brown bag” icon captures its cachet. And Polo’s timeless, deep navy blue button brings harmony between its online and offline identity.
Button text is also of great importance. “Add to Shopping Bag” sounds more appropriate for high end department stores than “Add to Cart,” which is more believable for a WalMart or Target. “Order Now” may work for long time catalog brands now accommodating online orders. In the UK, “Add to Basket” is more prevalent terminology.
Button Design and Usability
Button Text
Web copywriting emphasizes scannabliity — perhaps the golden rule of web copywriting is don’t use 5 words when three will do. How much more should this rule apply to a small button? Nevertheless, we found 15% of the top etailers going long. Harry and David’s “Add To My Shopping Cart” — though personal — is a mouthful.
“Buy Now” may be a stronger call to action than “Add to Cart”, but may subtly suggest the user is finished shopping or is making a commitment to purchase without time to review the order. The beauty of “Add to Cart” is that it is non-committal and assumes the user is still looking around. And if you’re a good e-salesperson, you’re showing suggested products and a “continue shopping” link from view cart page (or you are using an in-line cart with Ajax’y goodness).
Text Formatting
General web usability guidelines recommend sans-serif fonts with high contrast color selection (high-contrast white on black or dark blue rather than low-contrast like Chadwick’s blue-on-blue).
All-caps are generally discouraged in web copywriting. Mixed case is the easiest to read, although all lower case is also easy. We found 45% of “Add to Cart” buttons using all-capitals. Walgreen’s slaps white all-caps text on a light colored, tiny button with a gradient and an icon, forcing some users to squint.
Button Placement
If you offer helpful features on your product pages like wishlists, enlarged photos, color switching, alternate product views, email to friend, size chart, view cart or check out buttons, make sure the “Add to Cart” button is obvious, bright and prominent in comparison. Less important functions can be lighter colored buttons or simple text links.
Stacking Text
Stacking text is not a good idea for links or navigation buttons, and the same goes for “Add to Cart” buttons. Users have come to expect some form of rectangular shape, and when quickly scanning a page, it may take longer to distinguish button from decoration, and even become frustrating. No need to reinvent the wheel, stick to the convention.
What if You Use A Button From a Template?
Even if you don’t use a custom designed “Add to Cart” button for your shopping cart, choose a button that complements your site’s theme (complements does not infer it must be the the exact same color). And make sure you pick one design and stick with it. Ecommerce thrives on trust, and random buttons erodes customer confidence.
What do you think is the best button in the collection? What about elsewhere on the web?
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Here is an interesting related blog post on calls to action in general:
http://www.grokdotcom.com/2007/02/15/large-red-buttons-oh-my/
I find it interesting that over 15% of sites use red as the Add to Cart button color.
Petsmart and Target are my favorite of the bunch (even though the Target button is red, so is it’s brand)
Ha – someone pointed out that eBags uses “Add to Cart” and not “Add to Bag” hmmm…ironic.
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Victoria Secrets is the best I think (not looking at the sites, just judging by the buttons
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Well we know what Jakob Nielsen would say…
“It’s a CART! Don’t call it anything but a CART!” But that’s a good point that for some e-tailers, a “cart” doesn’t work as well as “bag.” People aren’t total idiots, if you keep your product page layout fairly clean the cart/bag/basket/buy now button’s gonna stand out without someone having to read it. But I definitely agree that you should keep the length of text short as possible. Not drawn out like “add this item to my shopping collection of purchases so I can see them nicely when I check out” type of button, ha ha.
I like Istockphoto’s “Add to Lightbox” because it’s a designer’s term, and pretty appropriate. I think there’s room for innovation here.
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I was hoping you would use research to backup your points.
That is a great idea Marcel. It is also something I’d like to see. Has anyone done button testing of size, color, text, iconography?
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For more buttons do check out this similar collection of webbdesign buttons.
http://www.dragnet.se/webbdesign/button_collection.html
Well, it aint pretty but give it to JC Whitney for at least doing something diferent.
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Add to my brown bag and Victoria Secrets are the best with the friendly sfae feeling and emotionally charged bag design.
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Fantastic collection
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I really find it kind of hard to tell what’s the best to do when it comes to website design or button designs. I think that the best thing to do is to make your visitors feel secured and safe when they visit your website and that can be achieved by having a rounded edges in your website ot button. However, we need to always test and see what works and what doesn’t.
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Good article.
Important no Know this.
I referenced this article in my website,
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Good point about the actual text implying different things for different brands. I’m curious if anyone has ever a/b tested different wording on their ad to cart buttons?
Very interesting to see how few sites us “Buy Now”. Also, I’m surprised at the small size of the button for most e-tailers. I can’t stand it when I have to go searching for the add to cart button.
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I’m trying to convince some people to switch from buy now to add to cart.
Thanks for helping build a case
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@ Jason,
I recently read a Marketing Experiments study where they tested registration landing pages, and tested a form with a green button and an orange button. The orange button converted much higher.
Marketing Sherpa also did a study and recommended larger buttons always get more clicks. Steve Krug of Don’t Make Me Think fame also recommends larger buttons for higher conversions. I see a lot of these buttons are smaller, but each product page *may* have bigger buttons also, I’ve seen various sizes of add to cart buttons on ecommerce sites, depending on whether you’re in the category / browsing area or on the product page.
We took all of these from product pages, not category pages. I would be suspect that color affects conversion unless the base site colors were similar to the lower converting button (so it doesn’t stand out). I do believe that larger helps.
45% of all “add to cart” buttons are all caps. I never really paid attention but that number seems rather high doesn’t it? I know it’s a cliche, but whenever I see anything in all caps it repels me. It really does look like screaming.
I do like the “Add Item(s) To Cart” verbage. To me putting the word “Item” in the plural form, as opposed to singular, says, Hey, no need to stop at just one item, feel free to keep shopping.
I’m surprised people still use “Buy Now” as it implies commitment and shoppers hate that
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Impressive collection. I guess I never paid much attention to the various designs, but definitely distinctive when put side-by-side.
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Another important safety tip about the color red and a call to action; 10% of the male population won’t be able to see it because they’re color blind to red.
Hello,
This is a nice inspirational blog for web designers like us. Thank you for this. The shopping carts are quite good and very unique too.
This is a good article. It was quite helpful for me. Thank you.
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Some of the designs definitely stand out from the others. Overall a good collection and will pay more attention to these buttons from now on.
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This is a simple and nice collection of all the icons for shopping cart. Thanks you for sharing this.
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Very useful, I’ve updated my add to cart button – check it out http://www.impact-computers.co.uk
Great article , very useful collection , thank you
very useful collection , thank you
Well it aint pretty but give it to JC Whitney for at least doing something diferent.
PS, we nofollow all comment links. I’m seeing a lot of “hey nice post” comments here with keyword link text. Come on folks…
I am currently testing different colour versions of the same add to cart button, red, green & gold on different stores. They all have the same text “ADD TO CART” and the same shape the only difference is the colour. I will endeavour to post the results here.
I am also running a longer test on one shops where the red ADD TO CART button turns green on mouseover and the white text turns black. This test is based on the “green for go principal which all drivers should be familiar with so it should be interesting.
These results will take a while but again I’ll endeavour to post them here.
What is interesting is that Overstock uses a red add to cart button and then once in the cart they cahnge to green “progress buttons” with a padlock and blue “go back” buttons”. Something else to test!!
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Good collection of buttons, inspires to create more good buttons.
Great idea. I’m really interested to see which of the texts on the buttons generated the most click throughs and which the worst. Will have to go and run some tests.
Thanks for the awesome collection..
That is a real gr8 collection a lazy designer like me will want
Thank you for your blog post. I had been tearing my hair out trying to get this to connect. I appreciate the help!
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This is a great post. I was wondering what would be the most looked at shopping cart buttons for my site. Thanks!
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Hi
These are so beautiful and amaizing buttons.
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This collection of buttons plus the study supporting it is a wonderful resource for the web. Good job! – Kudos!
I think it would be very interesting to do research on which buttons worked better. However, I bet there is a small difference between somewhat similar buttons (if size, text size, stand-out-ability is the same). This is what is great about any kind of marketing – is that you can test for yourself which works best. Thanks for the great collection
Hi Food Scales,
Excellent question.
Just keep in mind that what works best will really depend on the website. Just because someone tested that versionA works better than versionB on *their* web site doesn’t mean it will work better on *your* website.
Luckily, Google has a free tool that lets anyone split test content on their own web site – Google Website Optimizer. You can signup at:
http://www.google.com/websiteoptimizer
I also created a simple tutorial that help people get started with GWO
http://www.prusak.com/gwo-tutorial/
Good Luck
Ophir
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Excellent post. I never really notice how different each website’s button are. I think some sites do a much better job of making their buttons consistent with their designs than others!
Thanks for a great post. It goes to show that even down the the checkout button that basic copywriting rules apply like saying it in as few words as possible, use a basic font with high contrast colors, don’t use all caps, give a clear call to action.
I personally like the buttons that fit with the theme and color of a site. It might depend on the site but I like adding graphics that add appeal, make the shopper feel secure and that adds a sense of charm. But when you get right down to it nothing works better than good old fashioned testing.
This article was really helpful. After reading this, I redesigned my button. It is has the graphics of a shopping cart and an arrow. The color is a bluish gray to go with the overall theme of
my site.
Any feedback on the button is appreciated. I always look for ways to improve it.
Thanks!
I am amazed at how many of these big name retailers have such poorly designed buttons. I am a small art glass and jewelry website and took the time to design my own buttons. I used to have “buy now” and switched to “add to cart” and seem to have increased conversion.
@Hendrick
I like the design of your button and it definitely goes with the clean theming of your site.
Button color is a common conversion test to run, you may want to split test the white button vs. a different color. For some reason certain colors outperform others on a site-by-site basis (depending on the site’s customer profile). However, in my opinion you would need to be blind to miss your button since your page is so clean.
But – the proof is in the testing-pudding. Larger cart buttons have also improved conversions for many sites.
Another thing you may want to think about is moving the button closer to the price, (from left side to right) – that has also proven to lift conversions.
The prominence of the red box on your sale product pages (http://www.ties-necktie.com/silk-tie-p-10832.html ) may be overpowering the call-to-action. Usually my recommendation is to make the call to action the most prominent graphic other than the product images. But your site is so clean I don’t find your design problematic, but again testing would show you for sure.
I noticed that regular priced items don’t use the red field:
http://www.ties-necktie.com/burgundy-red-tie-with-tiny-square-pattern-p-10837.html
I must say I really like your design – especially the size of your product images and how you put clear sale badges and “Top 10 Products” markers on your category pages.
@ Linda Bustos
Thanks for the great feedback and for the suggestion. I will move the “add to cart” button closer to the price, and test how that will impact conversion rates over the next few weeks. It does make sense though!
Thanks again,
Hendrik
Great post. All thought about color conversions, size and overall relevance has really got me noticing the “add to cart” buttons on most of the commerce sites I visit. Thanks for sharing.
Hi,
Maybe this is out of topic. I dont have the Add to cart or BUY NOW button on my main page product display for “New Products of July” and “Featured Products”,it has only the product title and the price, but none of these “ADD TO CART” or “BUY NOW” buttons in there how can i put either of this buttons to appear for easy access to cart? I found these buttons only in product category page.Please help
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Kinda good to get inspired by when building web shops.
@Business Credit Cards – Now you have the critical eye
@Jazz – You don’t have to have buy buttons on the category or home pages, though some sites do. If you want to display them on other pages (category etc) you will need to program the link and the graphic there, and you likely want to use a smaller size, but keep the same design as on your product page.
@Webblosingar – glad it inspired you
This is a great way to scan the “how to” of a lot of sites all at once. It’s amazing how simple most of the graphics are. I think it would be nice to be able to see screen captures of multiple sites’ buttons in context with the rest of the page, so one can see how obvious the call to action is.
BTW, how did you decide which merchants to use?
@Susan,
I agree, that would have been nice. Or even comparison with these buttons to this years’ – I know more than one has updated the button design (Always be testing!)
We used the Internet Retailer Top 500 Guide, and tried to use the top 100-some.
Awesome! Great Collection buddy! I am really surprised and happy to find this
I was searching for this only for my new ecommerce site, thanks for sharing it here.
I am forwarding this to all of the webmasters in my IM list.
Well, I have gone and redesigned every button on my website all the way through my checkout process. I am curious if you have any negative feedback about, color, size, call to action, placement, etc…
Let me know, your opinion.
http://www.BibleBible.com
I think it would be nice to be able to see screen captures of multiple sites’ buttons in context with the rest of the page, so one can see how obvious the call to action is.
@Audio Bible
Those are nice cart buttons. Are you testing different versions too?
@VPXL
I agree, but then we would lose the gallery-collection effect. And the screenshots would need to be rescaled.
Awesome! Great Collection buddy! I am really surprised and happy to find this
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I believe that besides the Add to Cart button, another crucial point would be the Checkout button in the Shopping Cart page. I believe its location makes a lot of difference in the conversion ratio. Maybe you should also have a feature on that. I have found out on a lot of e-comm sites that the Checkout button goes well below the fold incase if there are a lot of items in the shop cart. i think this might affect the conversion as well. With your research if you can share some light on this, it would be really great.
Thanks
That’s a great idea. Can’t say when I’ll post on that topic but it’s certainly in the queue.
Thanks for such a great collection of the buttons! Very helpful material!
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Good stuff. Though I think you meant to say that Northerntool’s plus sign icon looks “like the head of a screw” and not a screwdriver.
Hi Linda,
We’ve just created a list of “Checkout Buttons”
I hope you’ll find it interesting.
You can see the list on the Checkout Buttons page, as long with some interesting statistics about them.
Cheers,
Traian
Hi Traian, alright that gets our attention, expect a link on Friday
@Toby,
That’s funny, that needs to go on my blogger blooper reel with a couple other ones…I always mess up the sport/guy stuff. What can I say