Caddy – WooCommerce Side Cart & Free Shipping Bar
A high-performance WooCommerce side cart, mini cart, and free shipping bar that boosts AOV with in-cart upsells and save for later.
3.9
(20 ratings)Will this break my store?
What the WordPress.org registry says about keeping Caddy – WooCommerce Side Cart & Free Shipping Bar running.
Tested to 7.0.2
Tested against the WordPress branch in use today.2 months ago
At least 7.2 releases a year since launch. WordPress.org only lists versions still available for download, so the real number may be higher.7.4
Your host must be running at least this version.6.5
3
Maintenance & trust
Scored on how Caddy – WooCommerce Side Cart & Free Shipping Bar is looked after — not on how many stores run it.
92
out of 100Maintenance
35 / 35WordPress compatibility
20 / 20Support responsiveness
Not enough dataMerchant satisfaction
9 / 15Listing transparency
10 / 10Ratings
3.9
20 ratingsCaddy is a high performance WooCommerce side cart plugin (also known as a floating cart, sliding cart, cart drawer, or mini cart) that improves your store’s shopping experience and helps grow your sales. It replaces the default WooCommerce cart page with a sticky AJAX side cart that slides in from the edge of the screen, letting customers manage their cart without leaving the page.
Built on Modern WordPress APIs
Caddy v3 is built from the ground up on the WordPress Interactivity API and the WooCommerce Store API – the same modern foundations that power WooCommerce’s own cart and checkout blocks. This means:
- Instant AJAX cart updates – no full-page reloads. Cart changes are reactive and immediate, making it the fastest WooCommerce AJAX side cart available.
- Server-synced state – every cart operation goes through the official WooCommerce Store API, ensuring accurate prices, tax calculations, and stock validation.
- Lightweight floating cart – no jQuery dependency. Caddy uses native ES modules loaded as WordPress script modules for the smallest possible footprint.
- Future-proof – built on the same APIs WordPress and WooCommerce are investing in long-term.
Increase average order value with Caddy’s built-in in-cart upsells and cross-sell product recommendations, reduce cart abandonment with a free shipping bar, and encourage repeat shoppers with a save for later wishlist.
🛒 Side cart, mini cart & floating cart drawer in one
🚚 Free shipping bar to lift average order value
⚡️ Built on WordPress Interactivity API & WooCommerce Store API
📱 Mobile friendly responsive design
🔄 Real-time reactive cart updates
🌏 Translated into 6 languages
⚔️ Cross-browser and cross-OS battle tested
🔒 Secure and reliable
💡 Lightweight – no jQuery dependency
💰 Boosts sales and average order value
🔄 Works with most themes and plugins
🎁 Apply cart discounts and promo codes
Try the Demo | Cart Optimization Playbooks | Visit usecaddy.com
Caddy Lite features:
- Sticky floating side cart / mini cart powered by the WordPress Interactivity API – available across your whole site
- Slide-in cart drawer that opens like an add-to-cart popup – no page reloads
- Real-time AJAX cart operations via the WooCommerce Store API – no page reloads
- Free shipping bar (progress meter) that shows customers how close they are to free shipping
- In-cart upsell and cross-sell product recommendations when customers add to cart
- Save products for later / wishlist (logged-in users)
- Quick AJAX add to cart from shop and archive pages – no page reload
- Cart and saved list links for your navigation menu (shortcodes + widgets)
- Elementor widgets: drag a “Caddy Cart” or “Caddy Saved Items” element into any Elementor header or layout, with full icon, label, and count-badge styling; clicking opens the side cart and the count stays live
- Add products & manage cart items without reloading the page
- Manage cart quantities directly in the side cart
- Sticky add-to-cart bubble (floating cart icon) with a live quantity indicator
- Apply coupon codes in the side cart
- Custom CSS to match your brand
- WooCommerce HPOS support
- No jQuery dependency – pure ES modules
Supported Languages
Caddy is translated into the following languages:
- English (default)
- German (Deutsch)
- French (Français)
- Italian (Italiano)
- Brazilian Portuguese (Português do Brasil)
- Spanish (Español)
Compatibility
Caddy is compatible with most themes and plugins. The following themes and plugins have been tested and confirmed working:
- Plugins: WooCommerce Subscriptions, WooCommerce Product Bundles, All Products For WooCommerce Subscriptions, Elementor, Divi
- Themes: GeneratePress, Flatsome, Astra, Hello Elementor, Kadence, OceanWP, Storefront
Upgrade to Pro
Upgrade to Pro and unlock powerful customization features, analytics, recommendations, and more.
Caddy Pro features:
- 7 different cart icon styles & 30+ custom color options
- Cart tracking & analytics dashboard
- Multi-tier reward levels with free shipping, free gifts, and discounts
- Workflow automation engine – trigger targeted product recommendations, popup notifications, and auto-apply coupons based on cart contents, cart total, product categories, page, and customer role
- In-cart announcement bar
- In-cart product subscription upsells using with the All Products for WooCommerce Subscriptions extension
- Change the cart bubble position on the screen
- Display notices when adding to cart or adding/removing saved products
- Promote custom coupon offers in the cart
- Set free shipping meter exclusions
- Set product recommendation exclusions
- Set product recommendation fall-back rules
- Show save for later buttons on product pages and shop archives
- Manage placement of save for later buttons on shop archives
- Customize a welcome message to new users
- Hide Caddy on specific pages
- Hide out of stock products from product recommendations
- Get priority email support
- Get early access to new features
Upgrade to Pro Now: https://www.usecaddy.com/
Yes. Caddy works as a WooCommerce mini cart, side cart, and floating cart all in one. It replaces the default WooCommerce cart page with a slide-in cart drawer, and the WooCommerce mini-cart block is handled automatically so you don’t get a duplicate cart.
Caddy is a slide-in side cart drawer that opens automatically when a customer adds to cart – similar to an add-to-cart popup, but it slides in from the edge of the screen instead of covering the page. Customers can keep shopping without a page reload.
Yes. Caddy includes a free shipping bar (a progress meter) that shows customers how much more they need to spend to unlock free shipping – one of the most effective ways to increase average order value and reduce cart abandonment.
Yes. Caddy displays in-cart upsell and cross-sell product recommendations when customers add to cart, helping you raise average order value. Caddy Pro adds rule-based recommendations, multi-tier rewards, and workflow automation.
Yes. Caddy gives customers a fast AJAX side cart so they can view, update quantities, apply coupons, and check out without loading the standalone cart page.
We publish free WooCommerce cart optimization playbooks covering average order value growth, cart abandonment recovery, and seasonal campaigns. Read them at usecaddy.com/playbooks.
Caddy has an option in it’s settings to insert the cart icon into your menu. If you want to add the cart icon somewhere else in your header you can use our widget or shortcode:
Widget:
Search for the “Caddy Cart” widget and add it to your header.
Elementor:
If you build your header with Elementor, drag in the “Caddy Cart” or “Caddy Saved Items” widget. Each has full style controls (icon size and color, label typography, count-badge colors, alignment, and spacing). Clicking opens the side cart, and the cart count stays live.
Shortcodes:
Or, you can use our included shortcodes using the “Shortcodes in Menus” plugin and then adding the following Caddy shortcodes:
[cc_saved_items text=’Saves’ icon=’yes’]
[cc_cart_items text=’Cart’ icon=’yes’]
The “text” value is the text that you want to appear in your menu.
The “icon” value (yes or no) will display a heart icon for the “Saves” link and a cart icon for the “Cart” link
Yes.
- Install and activate the free Loco Translate plugin.
- Once installed, navigate to the Loco Translate menu option and select “plugins” from the sub menu.
- Select the “Caddy” plugin
- Click the “New language” link
- Select the “WordPress language” option and select a language.
- Choose a location for your language file (Custom is recommended), then click the “Start translating” button.
- Select each of the source text lines (1), enter the translations (2) and finally save your changes (3).
- Now make sure your default WordPress settings are set for the language you’ve configured and you’re done.
You can find full instructions here.
No. We’ve built Caddy with performance in mind and have fine tuned it for speed.
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