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A merchant searching for a shopify sticky add to cart theme usually just wants to know if the bar is on or off out of the box, and across all six themes UTD publishes it is off by default and controlled by exactly one checkbox, which settles the question but not the one about how much else ships turned off alongside it.
A merchant who types “shopify sticky add to cart theme” is usually trying to find out which theme turns the feature on by default, so they can skip a settings hunt. That is the wrong question for UTD’s lineup, because the answer is the same across every theme the vendor publishes: off, one checkbox, no exceptions. The six themes UTD publishes in the official Shopify Theme Store, Allure, Boutique, Gain, Impression, Ultra and Victory, all handle sticky add to cart the identical way, and the real story is not which one has it, but how thin this particular feature is everywhere compared to what sits next to it.
Read directly from theme code, the setting show_sticky_add_to_cart appears in sections/product-template.liquid in every one of the six themes: Allure 1.2.4, Boutique 2.3.3, Gain 4.3.1, Impression 1.1.0, Ultra 2.3.4 and Victory 1.2.1. It is a checkbox labeled “Enable sticky add to cart” and in every single theme it ships disabled. There is exactly 1 setting attached to this feature in each codebase, meaning there is no companion control for scroll offset, animation delay or which page templates it appears on. A merchant flips one switch, and that is the entire configuration surface.
This matters because features named similarly elsewhere in a Shopify theme, like Countdown Timer or Built-in Popup, come with dozens of settings. Sticky add to cart does not get that treatment in any UTD theme. The feature is deliberately minimal everywhere, not minimal in some themes and rich in others.
The theme code says the checkbox is off everywhere, but the demo check on 2026-09-08 looked for the marker sticky-add-to-cart actually rendering on live product pages. It found the marker present on Ultra’s demo at demo-store-ultra-electronic.myshopify.com, on Boutique’s demo at demo-the-lace-boutique.myshopify.com, and on Impression’s demo at gallery-theme-demo-3.myshopify.com. The facts recorded no such marker for the Allure, Gain or Victory demo stores checked the same day.
Since the setting defaults to off in Allure, Gain and Victory just as it does in Ultra, Boutique and Impression, this is not a code difference. It means whoever set up the Ultra, Boutique and Impression demos went into the editor and turned the checkbox on, and whoever set up the Allure, Gain and Victory demos left it at its default. A merchant browsing demo stores to judge this feature is really looking at a setup decision, not a theme capability.
| Theme | Version | Default state | Settings attached | Marker seen in demo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Allure | 1.2.4 | Disabled | 1 | Not recorded |
| Boutique | 2.3.3 | Disabled | 1 | Present |
| Gain | 4.3.1 | Disabled | 1 | Not recorded |
| Impression | 1.1.0 | Disabled | 1 | Present |
| Ultra | 2.3.4 | Disabled | 1 | Present |
| Victory | 1.2.1 | Disabled | 1 | Not recorded |
If sticky add to cart is flat across the lineup, the settings that surround it on the product page are not. Size Chart shows up as show_size_guide in sections/featured-product.liquid in all six themes and defaults to enabled everywhere, with counts of 12 settings in Allure, 14 in Boutique, 14 in Gain, 10 in Impression, 12 in Ultra and 12 in Victory. Quick Buy follows the same on-by-default pattern but the setting count spreads much wider, from 8 in Allure up to 25 in Victory, with Boutique at 18, Gain at 13, Impression at 11 and Ultra at 21.
The popup feature shows the widest split of any comparison here. Allure, Impression and Victory use newsletter_popup_cookie_time, a select field defaulting to 1, with 36, 28 and 17 settings respectively. Boutique, Gain and Ultra instead key the same feature off is_newsletter_popup_enabled, a checkbox that defaults to disabled, carrying 55, 58 and 63 settings. That is a difference worth knowing before picking a theme for a store that leans on email capture, and it dwarfs anything visible in the sticky bar comparison.
Countdown Timer is the single largest settings cluster measured across this lineup: 8 in Allure, 67 in Boutique, 48 in Gain, 20 in Impression, 74 in Ultra and 41 in Victory, all read from sections/banner.liquid or its equivalent per theme. Mega Menu splits differently again, implemented purely in code with no editor toggle in Allure, Impression and Victory (snippets/header-mega-menu.liquid), while Boutique, Gain and Ultra expose it as a configurable section with color and border settings. None of this variation touches sticky add to cart, which stays a one-setting, off-by-default feature across the board, and that consistency is itself the finding.
If the sticky add to cart bar is the deciding factor, any of the six UTD themes works identically: the checkbox sits in the same file, defaults off, and takes one click to enable, so let other features decide the purchase. Look instead at the popup and countdown timer setting counts in the table above, since that is where Boutique, Gain and Ultra pull ahead of Allure, Impression and Victory in configuration depth, and confirm current version numbers against UTD’s own listing page before buying.
No. In Allure 1.2.4, Boutique 2.3.3, Gain 4.3.1, Impression 1.1.0, Ultra 2.3.4 and Victory 1.2.1 the checkbox `show_sticky_add_to_cart` in sections/product-template.liquid is disabled by default. A merchant has to open the theme editor and switch it on for every one of these six themes before it appears on the storefront.
None of them do, and that is the finding worth noting. Every one of the six themes attaches exactly 1 setting to this feature, the same checkbox with the same label, Enable sticky add to cart. There is no theme in the lineup that adds a delay, a position offset or a variant picker to the sticky bar.
The demo check on 2026-09-08 found the marker sticky-add-to-cart rendering on the product page for Ultra, Boutique and Impression, but the facts recorded no such marker for Allure, Gain or Victory demos. Since the setting is off by default in all six themes, a demo store only shows the bar if whoever built that demo turned the checkbox on, so the split reflects demo configuration, not a difference in what the theme code can do.
The gap shows up in features with many more settings attached, not this one. Boutique's countdown timer carries 67 settings, Ultra's carries 74, while Impression's newsletter popup carries 28 against Ultra's 63. A merchant comparing UTD themes should look at those feature clusters, not at sticky add to cart, since that one is identical everywhere.
The Shopify Theme Store page for UTD's listings is the place to check current versions and pricing, since theme code moves between releases. Cross-reference against the version numbers named here, Allure 1.2.4, Boutique 2.3.3, Gain 4.3.1, Impression 1.1.0, Ultra 2.3.4 and Victory 1.2.1, because a newer release could change any of these defaults.