Advice and answers from the Rentech Digital Team

  • How to integrate Ecocart into Swipecart?

    Encourage checkout and conversions by offering a carbon-neutral option to customers.

    What is Ecocart?

    • Ecocart is a sustainable shopping experience tool that helps the customer neutralize the carbon footprint for every order by donating to impactful sustainability projects across the globe.

    How Ecocart + Swipecart will help you?

    • Get higher conversions and boost customer trust with Ecocart's sustainable solutions.
    • Ecocart uses algorithms to calculate the carbon emissions of each order and offers a one-click carbon-neutral checkout.


    How to connect Ecocart to your Swipecart app?

    • If you already have an Ecocart subscription on Shopify/WordPress, you can connect it to your Swipecart app. Let’s start the integration process.
    • Click on “Integrations” on the left menu of your Swipecart dashboard.

    • On the Integrations page, click on “Ecocart” in the All Integrations section.
    • You’ll be taken to the Ecocart Integration details page. Click on the “Integrate” button at the top-right corner of the page.
    • You’ll get a popup to confirm the integration. Click on “Install”.

    • The Ecocart tool is now integrated into your app on Swipecart. The API key is automatically fetched from the Ecocart tool installed on your e-commerce store.
    • You can now use it in your app.

    • It automatically estimates the carbon footprint of each order in real-time by looking at the variables like shipping distance, product type, and package weight.

    • The customer can then opt to offset it by switching on the toggle switch or checking it. The carbon-neutral order amount is automatically added to the customer’s checkout amount. Ecocart donates this money to sustainability projects.

    • You can preview your Integration in your app.