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>
<ul>
<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>
</ul>
<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:
<ul>
<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:
<ul>
<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.

<h1 class="p1">Add WhatsApp Sales Functionality To Your WooCommerce Store</h1>
Merchants with well-built online stores still have trouble converting casual visitors into real shoppers. One problem is shopper convenience.  WhatsApp Purchase Assistant enables shoppers to order directly from WhatsApp or go seamlessly from your WooCommerce store WooCommerce to WhatsApp mobile app to complete the checkout experience.
<img class="aligncenter wp-image-8384283 size-full" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/woocommerce-whatsapp-purchase.png" alt="" width="1100" height="573" />
<h2 class="p1">Benefits</h2>
Automatically send notifications on WhatsApp to inform shoppers with customized messages for order cancellations and order placements. Boost store sales with a convenient and quick messaging app. Provide customers with a better shopping experience. Let guest users shop through WhatsApp.
 
<ul>
<li>The admin can enable/disable the buy on WhatsApp button.</li>
<li>The admin can label the WhatsApp icon with the required custom text.</li>
<li>Moreover, the admin can choose to hide the checkout button from the front end.</li>
<li>The Admin can enable or disable notifications to the customers for various order events.</li>
<li>The Admin can notify the customers by delivering a custom personalized text message for the orders</li>
<li>According to his needs, the admin can add the coupon functionality.</li>
<li>This module works for all types of product and guest users can purchase as well.</li>
<li>The customer can order directly from their WhatsApp account after initiating the process from the store.</li>
<li>The buyer gets a notification for orders placed and cancellation.</li>
<li>The guest users can also place the order through WhatsApp.</li>
<li>The customer can opt to pay using an offline mode of payment only.</li>
<li>Customers can also select the mode of shipping and payment options from the given alternatives.</li>
<li style="list-style-type: none"></li>
</ul>
WhatsApp Purchase Assistant will provide a new sales channel for your business.
<img class="aligncenter wp-image-7657707 size-full" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/woocommerce-WhatsApp-Purchase-Assistant-cart.png" alt="" width="1200" height="684" />
<h3>Take orders directly from WhatsApp</h3>
<ul>
<li class="li2">Advance your store with the WhatsApp Buy Tool.</li>
<li class="li2">With this plugin, admins can take orders directly from WhatsApp.</li>
<li class="li2">Allow shoppers to make purchases through a leading, reliable app</li>
</ul>
<h3 class="p1">Enable shoppers to order on WhatsApp</h3>
<ul class="ul1">
<li class="li2">Allow guest users to order on WhatsApp.</li>
<li class="li2">Boost store sales with the leading messaging service WhatsApp.</li>
<li class="li2">Increase shopper satisfaction when purchased through WhatsApp—an app they already know and enjoy. </li>
<li class="li2">Provide a user-friendly tool to ease the purchase process for shoppers.</li>
</ul>
<h3 class="p1">Guest-user purchases on WhatsApp</h3>
<ul class="ul1">
<li class="li2">Guest users can purchase products from WhatsApp.</li>
<li class="li2">A popup will appear to ask for guest users for their phone numbers.</li>
<li class="li2">Guest users need to fill out all the requested information from the popup form to complete the purchase.</li>
<li class="li2">After filling out the form, guest users will be able to continue shopping via WhatsApp.</li>
</ul>
<h3 class="p1"> Receive order-related notifications</h3>
<ul class="ul1">
<li class="li2">Shoppers receive notifications based on order-related activity.</li>
<li class="li2">This plugin allows the store admin to automatically notify shoppers in real-time.</li>
<li class="li2">Allows admin to set notification message to show the customer before placing the order through WhatsApp.</li>
<li class="li2">Facilitates admins creating custom messages to send to the shoppers after they place orders.</li>
<li class="li2">Admins can auto-send order cancelation messages.</li>
</ul>
<h3 class="p1"> Convenient shopping through WhatsApp</h3>
<ul class="ul1">
<li class="li2">Shoppers see a WhatsApp Widget on product-view pages.</li>
<li class="li2">Purchase with the WhatsApp button on product-list pages.</li>
<li class="li2">Instant checkout through WhatsApp.</li>
<li class="li2">A quick and convenient shopping experience with the leading messaging service WhatsApp.</li>
</ul>
Expand your WooCommerce web store when you integrate it with WhatsApp.
<img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-18734004131492" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/woocommerce-whatsapp-purchase-assistant-3.png?w=896" alt="woocommerce-whatsapp-purchase-assistant" width="896" height="704" />
<img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-18734004131491" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/woocommerce-whatsapp-purchase-assistant-4.png?w=896" alt="woocommerce-whatsapp-purchase-assistant" width="896" height="704" /> <img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-18734004131505" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/woocommerce-whatsapp-purchase-assistant-1-1.png?w=896" alt="woocommerce-whatsapp-purchase-assistant" width="896" height="704" /><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-18734004131496" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/woocommerce-whatsapp-purchase-assistant-2.png?w=896" alt="woocommerce-whatsapp-purchase-assistant" width="896" height="704" />
 
<img class="alignnone wp-image-18734004131490 size-medium" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/woocommerce-whatsapp-purchase-assistant-5.png?w=896" alt=" woocommerce-whatsapp-purchase-assistant" width="896" height="704" />
<h3>Requirements</h3>
<ul>
<li>Minimum PHP version: 7.4</li>
<li>WhatsApp phone number</li>
<li>Twilio Business Account</li>
</ul>
<a href="https://woocommerce.com/document/whatsapp-purchase-assistant/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Read User Documentation</a>
<h3>Contact</h3>
For any queries related to this plugin, please send an email to <a href="mailto:support@webkul.com">support@webkul.com</a>

WhatsApp Purchase Assistant

Connect WhatsApp with WooCommerce store and enable customers to place orders on WhatsApp mobile app and receive order notifications.

Mini Cart vs WhatsApp Purchase Assistant