Modern Cart Starter for WooCommerce

The Smarter WooCommerce Cart Experience You’ve Been Waiting For 🛒

Your WooCommerce cart shouldn’t just sit there – it should sell for you!

Modern Cart is the ultimate cart enhancement plugin built to turn your default WooCommerce cart into a high-converting, interactive shopping experience.

Side cart, popup cart, floating cart, in-cart upsells, smart progress bar – everything is designed to increase your average order value (AOV) effortlessly.

It doesn’t just look modern – it sells like crazy.

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How Does It Work?

Getting started is quick and easy:

1. Install & Activate the Modern Cart plugin
2. Enable the cart from the settings
3. Customize cart text, colors, icons, and more
4. Done! Your new cart is now live and optimized

Powerful Features of Modern Cart 🚀

• Slide-out / Side Cart 🛒 – Display your cart as a slide-in panel or floating icon. Users can interact with their cart instantly without leaving the page they’re on.
• Popup Cart 🛒 – Display your cart as a pop-up or floating icon. Users can interact with their cart instantly without leaving the page they’re on.
• In-Cart Upsells and Cross-Sells 🔼 (Pro) – Promote relevant products and exclusive deals directly inside the cart to boost sales before checkout.
• Progress Bar for Cart Incentives 🎯 – Encourage customers to spend more with a visual progress bar – show them how close they are to rewards like free shipping or special gifts.
• Built-In Coupon Form 🎟️ – Let users apply discount codes directly in the cart. No reloads, no confusion – just clean, smooth savings.
• Customization and Design Flexibility 🎨 – Choose from multiple cart styles and easily customize colors, text, and labels to match your store’s branding.
• Compatibility 🔗 – Works seamlessly with most WooCommerce-compatible themes and plugins, so you won’t need to worry about conflicts.
• Mobile-First 📱 – Modern Cart is built with mobile users in mind. It’s designed to work smoothly and look great on all devices—especially phones and tablets.

Who Can Benefit from Modern Cart?

• 🛒 WooCommerce Store Owners looking to modernize their cart experience
• 💼 Conversion-focused businesses aiming to maximize sales and reduce drop-offs
• 🔁 CartFlows Users wanting a high-converting cart to go with their checkout funnel
• 🧩 Anyone who wants to turn casual shoppers into paying customers

Themes & Plugins Modern Cart Supports ✅

Compatible Themes:

• Astra
• Spectra One
• Blocksy
• Kadence
• GeneratePress
• OceanWP
• Hello Elementor
• Storefront
• Bricks Builder
• Flatsome
• Hestia
• Neve
• And many more

Compatible Plugins:

• Spectra
• Elementor
• Beaver Builder
• Brizy Builder
• Bricks Builder
• Gutenberg
• Oxygen Builder
• CartFlows
• Cart Abandonment Recovery for WooCommerce
• Variation Swatches for WooCommerce
• OttoKit
• TutorLMS
• LifterLMS
• LearnPress
• LearnDash
• MemberPress
• PrestoPlayer
• WooCommerce Subscriptions
• And many more

External services

This plugin connects to external APIs provided by CartFlows to fetch changelog and documentation data, which are displayed in the plugin’s admin panel to assist site administrators.

1. Changelog Feed

• URL: https://cartflows.com/product/modern-cart/feed/
• Purpose: Retrieves the latest changelog entries shown in the “What’s New” section of the plugin admin area.
• Data Sent: No user data is sent. This is a read-only request triggered when the admin panel is accessed.

2. Knowledge Base Documentation

• URL: https://cartflows.com/wp-json/powerful-docs/v1/get-docs
• Purpose: Fetches documentation and knowledge base articles displayed in the “Knowledge Base” section within the plugin admin.
• Data Sent: No user data is sent. The request is triggered only when an administrator views the relevant documentation page.

1. Install the Modern Cart for WooCommerce either via the WordPress plugin directory or by uploading modern-cart.zip to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
3. Navigate to WooCommerce > Modern Cart to configure the settings
4. Make sure to disable caching on your checkout and thank you steps

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   Slide-in cart view

Version 1.0.4 – Monday, 24 November 2025

• Fix: Fixed a compatibility issue affecting WooCommerce’s Coming Soon mode when the “Apply to store pages only” option was active

Version 1.0.3 – Thursday, 20 November 2025

• Improvement: Added success message to the free shipping progress bar.
• Improvement: Plugin now detects maintenance mode to stay inactive during maintenance.
• Improvement: Added option to auto-open the cart drawer when a product is added without AJAX.
• Fix: Improved translation support for sale percentages and cart item text.
• Fix: Corrected “added to cart” notification display by improving AJAX handling.

Version 1.0.2 – Monday, 3rd November 2025

• Improvement: Improved AJAX handling in Modern Cart with cache-control to ensure always up-to-date cart data.
• Fix: Corrected shipping calculation errors for accurate totals when shipping settings change.
• Fix: Resolved Astra cart icon compatibility by refining custom trigger selector handling.
• Fix: Improved coupon field reliability through better state management for smoother user experience.
• Fix: Fixed Firefox CSS issues in the popup cart for consistent cross-browser display.

Version 1.0.1 – Monday, 29th September 2025

• New: Added cart header customization options in Modern Cart > Styling Tab > Cart Header, allowing greater control over the appearance of your cart header.
• Fix: Fixed issue with tax HTML renderer not displaying correctly in the cart.
• Fix: Compatibility bug fixes with Modern Cart Pro.

Version 1.0.0 – Tuesday, 9th September 2025

• Initial release of Modern Cart Starter for WooCommerce.