The mini cart for WooCommerce offers immediate access to cart details. It enhances the user’s interaction with your store. By using the mini cart shortcode, you can display a mini cart anywhere on your website. This includes a cart fly-out for a detailed view of cart items and totals. It gives users a seamless shopping experience.
With conventional checkout processes, the cart is often hidden, causing confusion among users about their selected products. The mini cart for WooCommerce solves this issue by providing complete cart details, allowing customers to continue shopping or checkout whenever they’re ready.
<h2>Features</h2>
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<li style="font-weight: 400">Easily add a flyout cart to any page.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Use shortcodes to display a mini cart anywhere on your site.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Customize with 13 different Cart-like icons.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Choose between a sticky cart or a side cart.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Upload a custom cart icon.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Enable the sliding cart for better UX.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Enable/Disable tax display in cart prices.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Display cart items and prices with an icon.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Add a cart icon to multiple page positions.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Disable the cart on specific pages.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Engage users with a fly-out cart animation and optional added notifications.</li>
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<h3>Display Mini Cart Anywhere</h3>
The mini cart for WooCommerce plugin allows you to display the cart anywhere in the store, even in the menu. With the mini cart shortcode, you can position the mini cart on multiple pages, including the header, footer, or sidebar, ensuring it remains visible and accessible to users.
<img class="aligncenter wp-image-18734002735161 size-medium" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Mini-Cart.png?w=851" alt="Mini cart in store" width="851" height="875" />
<h3>Display a Sticky Cart on WooCommerce Store</h3>
Enable the sticky cart for WooCommerce to display all products in the cart. Users can increase the quantity of products or remove them using a dropdown button. Customize the sticky cart with the following options:
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<li style="font-weight: 400">Enable the add to cart button.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Allow checkout from the sticky cart.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Change the text, buttons, and background color of the cart.</li>
</ul>
<img class="aligncenter wp-image-18734001706706 size-full" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Sticky-Cart-GIF.gif" alt="Display Sticky Cart" width="600" height="338" />
<h3>Auto Display Side Cart when Product is added</h3>
Improve the purchase flow with the side cart for WooCommerce, which automatically appears when a product is added. Customize it with features such as:
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<li style="font-weight: 400">Fly-to-cart animation.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Automated display.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Rounded corners.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Coupon code redemption in the side cart.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Display on the left or right side of the screen.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Customizable header text, icons, colors, etc.</li>
</ul>
<img class="aligncenter wp-image-18734001706709 size-full" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Side-Cart-GIF.gif" alt="Side cart auto display" width="600" height="338" />
 
<h3>Enable Add-to-Cart notifications</h3>
Notify customers with a cart widget every time they add a product to the cart. This feature ensures users can continue shopping without worrying about whether the product has been added. Customize the notification text and background colors to match your store’s theme.
<img class="aligncenter wp-image-18734000968724 size-medium" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/1.gif?w=690" alt="Add to cart notification" width="690" height="388" />
<h3>Maximize sales volume with a fly-out Cart</h3>
The mini cart for WooCommerce allows you to enable a floating cart that highlights cart details when hovered over. You can choose the number of items to display in the fly-out cart and set shorter product names for a concise view.
<img class="aligncenter wp-image-18734002735400 size-medium" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Flyout-cart-for-Mini-Cart.gif?w=600" alt="Fly-out cart with details" width="600" height="310" />
<h3>13 Different Icons to Symbolize Mini Cart</h3>
Make your mini cart more attractive with 13 icons to choose from. The menu cart for WooCommerce also allows you to upload a custom icon, adding a unique touch to your store.
<img class="aligncenter wp-image-5273973 size-full" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/default-icons-or-custom.png" alt="Cart and custom icons." width="750" height="248" />
<h3>Configure the Cart menu</h3>
The menu cart plugin for WooCommerce provides various configuration options for the cart menu, allowing you to display products, quantities, prices, and the total amount in the cart menu. Options include:
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Displaying the cart icon.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Showing the cart icon, products, and prices.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Displaying items and prices.</li>
</ul>
<img class="aligncenter wp-image-18734002742085 size-medium" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Configure-Cart-Menu.png?w=896" alt="Cart menu configuration bar" width="896" height="95" />
<h3>Change the Cart texts and links</h3>
Personalize your side cart by customizing the text and links. Add text for ‘Empty Cart’ and ‘View Cart’ to make the shopping experience more intuitive and engaging. You can also specify Cart and Checkout URLs.
<img class="aligncenter wp-image-5273982 size-full" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/text-links.png" alt="Cart texts and links tab" width="750" height="496" />

Mini Cart

By displaying real-time updates in both the mini cart and the side cart, users can confidently continue shopping, leading to higher conversion rates and a reduced likelihood of cart abandonment.

<h3 data-start="728" data-end="799">Let Customers Save Their Carts and Come Back When They’re Ready</h3>
Save and Restore Carts allows your customers to save their shopping carts and return later to complete their purchase — without losing products, quantities, or selections.
With built-in reminder emails and a dedicated admin dashboard to manage saved carts, this plugin helps reduce cart abandonment and gives customers the flexibility they expect from modern eCommerce stores.
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<h3 data-start="1205" data-end="1247">Save Cart for Later with One Click</h3>
Customers can save their cart at any time and restore it later with a single click.
<ul>
<li>Works with logged-in and guest customers</li>
<li>Preserves products, quantities, and variations</li>
<li>One Click to Checkout</li>
</ul>
Perfect for customers who need time to decide or want to continue shopping later for multiple carts.
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<h3 data-start="1541" data-end="1574">Automated Reminder Emails</h3>
Encourage customers to return and complete their purchase.
<ul>
<li>Schedule reminders after X hours or days</li>
<li>WooCommerce-style email templates</li>
<li>Fully compatible with the WooCommerce email system</li>
<li>Uses store branding automatically</li>
</ul>
Reminder emails include a direct restore link that instantly reloads the saved cart.
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<h3 data-start="1900" data-end="1940">Saved Carts Management Dashboard</h3>
Store owners get a complete overview of saved carts from the admin dashboard:
<ul>
<li>View all saved carts in one place</li>
<li>Customer and cart details</li>
<li>Saved date and reminder status</li>
<li>Quick restore and review</li>
</ul>
This makes it easy to monitor saved carts and follow up when needed.
<a href="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/woo-save-cart-saved-carts-dashboard.png"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-18734006233176 size-large" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/woo-save-cart-saved-carts-dashboard.png?w=980" alt="" width="980" height="484" /></a>
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<h3 data-start="2229" data-end="2266">Restore Saved Carts Instantly</h3>
Customers can restore their saved carts without friction:
<ul>
<li>One-click cart restore</li>
<li>Automatically updates the current cart</li>
<li>Prevents duplicate cart issues</li>
</ul>
The restored cart is ready for checkout immediately.
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<h3 data-start="2488" data-end="2525">WooCommerce Email Integration</h3>
Reminder emails behave like native WooCommerce emails:
<ul>
<li>Customizable subject and content</li>
<li>Enable/disable reminders easily</li>
<li>Compatible with email customizer plugins</li>
</ul>
No external email service required.
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<h3 data-start="2744" data-end="2785">Works Seamlessly with WooCommerce</h3>
<ul>
<li>Compatible with most WooCommerce themes</li>
<li>Supports simple and variable products</li>
<li>Does not interfere with checkout or cart logic</li>
<li>Lightweight and performance-friendly</li>
</ul>
Built following WooCommerce coding standards.

Save and Restore Carts

Allow customers to save their carts for later, restore them with one click, and receive automated reminder emails to complete checkout. Reduce abandoned carts and increase conversions effortlessly.

Mini Cart vs Save and Restore Carts