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>
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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:
<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.

<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-3027461" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/add-to-cart-redirect-woocommerce-1.png" alt="" width="564" height="335" />
<h1>Redirect users immediately after adding to cart</h1>
Configure redirection rules to improve the customer flow and ultimately increase conversions in your webshop. With the Add to Cart Redirect plugin, you can easily redirect customers to different URLs on various levels, in order of priority:
With the Add to Cart Redirect plugin you can configure redirects on different levels. Redirect URLs can be configured at the following levels, in order of priority: 
1) Product variation 
2) Product 
3) Category (new) 
4) Global 
5) Default behavior
<figure><a href="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/add-to-cart-redirect-for-woocommerce-global-settings.jpg"><img class="alignnone wp-image-18734005121140 size-medium" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/add-to-cart-redirect-for-woocommerce-global-settings.jpg?w=896" alt="" width="896" height="290" /></a><figcaption style="text-align: center">Add to Cart Redirect global settings</figcaption></figure>
All configurable redirects have built-in search functionality for any type of posts on your site (for example, products, pages, posts, including custom post types that are public). It is also possible to configure a fully custom URL.
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Simple product Add to Cart Redirect setting
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Variable Add to Cart Redirect setting
<h2>Use cases</h2>
<h3>Increase Conversion by Skipping the Cart Page</h3>
Instead of refreshing the page and showing a notice that “Product X has been added to the cart”, you can configure the Add to Cart Redirect plugin to send the customer immediately to the checkout, skipping the additional page reloads and moving to the cart and only then the checkout.
Configure the Add to Cart Redirect plugin to skip additional cart page and send the customer immediately to the checkout after adding a product to the cart. Preventing the page refreshing and showing a notice that “Product X has been added to the cart”.
<h3>Automatically add products to the cart</h3>
Maybe you’re having a really cool promotion where you’re giving away a free product, say a basketball, if someone purchases a pair of basketball shoes. Through some nifty redirects you can configure the plugin to automatically add the basketball product to the cart.
If you use it in combination with the <a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/url-coupons">WooCommerce URL Coupons</a> extension, you can even automatically apply coupons after adding a product to the cart.
<h3 id="redirecttotermsandconditions">Redirect to Terms and Conditions</h3>
Send the customer to the terms and conditions page immediately after they’ve added a product to the cart, if the product has special terms and conditions. This way, you can ensure that they read the terms before continuing with their shopping.
Note: this extension requires WooCommerce 3.0+ in order to function.

Add to Cart Redirect

Redirect customers directly to any page/URL after adding a product to the cart.

Mini Cart vs Add to Cart Redirect