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Fast Cart – Ultralight Ajax Side Cart for WooCommerce
Fast Cart – Ultralight Ajax Side Cart for WooCommerce
A WooCommerce Side Cart plugin to create the most attractive and effective Ajax side carts 🛒️
5.0
(5 ratings)Will this break my store?
What the WordPress.org registry says about keeping Fast Cart – Ultralight Ajax Side Cart for WooCommerce running.
Tested to 7.1
Tested against the WordPress branch in use today.16 days ago
At least 8.4 releases a year since launch. WordPress.org only lists versions still available for download, so the real number may be higher.7.2
Your host must be running at least this version.5.5
40% of 5 recent threads resolved
From the plugin's WordPress.org support forum.1
A single maintainer. Worth knowing if the plugin is load-bearing for your store.Maintenance & trust
Scored on how Fast Cart – Ultralight Ajax Side Cart for WooCommerce is looked after — not on how many stores run it.
89
out of 100Maintenance
35 / 35WordPress compatibility
20 / 20Support responsiveness
12 / 20Merchant satisfaction
12 / 15Listing transparency
10 / 10Ratings
5.0
5 ratingsFast Cart is the ultimate lightweight WooCommerce Ajax Side Cart and Slide Cart plugin designed to deliver a blazing-fast, high-converting shopping experience. Upgrade your store with an interactive sliding cart drawer, floating cart icon, and dynamic free shipping bar. And best of all? You get all of this without compromising your store’s loading speed with heavy scripts or bloat.
Whether users call it a WooCommerce Side Cart, Slide Cart, Off-Canvas Cart Drawer, or WooCommerce Floating Cart, Fast Cart delivers a seamless Ajax add-to-cart experience that keeps customers shopping without slow, friction-heavy page reloads.
Usually, shoppers have to switch back and forth between product pages and the cart page just to check their items. This friction causes cart abandonment 😞️. Fast Cart solves this by instantly displaying an interactive Ajax cart drawer and floating cart icon on every page of your store.
As one of the best WooCommerce Ajax side cart plugins, Fast Cart provides a vibrant, modern UI that allows customers to update quantities, remove items, and see cart totals instantly.
Feature Highlights of Fast Cart for WooCommerce
Basic Settings Options
🚀️ Open side cart on Ajax Add to Cart
🚀️ Open the side cart on Normal Add to Cart
🚀️ Hide or show an overlay layer
🚀️ Ability to control Tray position
(display position of the side cart)
🚀️ Control how users close the side cart
🚀 Refresh WooCommerce cart fragments to observe settings changes immediately
🚀 Display the cart icon and added item prices total with menus
🚀 Open a popup right after adding products to the cart to display the current carted item.
🚀 Free Shipping Progress bar.
Item Settings Options
🚀️ Link Behavior of item (how you want the link to open)
🚀️ Show the current cart items at the top of the list.
🚀️ Display a link to remove all the carted items from the cart tray.
🚀️ Before removing all items from the cart tray, display a confirmation message.
🚀️ Display the strikethrough regular price with the sale price for an item.
🚀️ Enable or disable the remove item from cart button
🚀️ Add or remove the quantity field on the side cart
🚀️ Display plus/minus button with the quantity field to control the quantities from the cart tray.
🚀️ Show or hide the total price of the items added
🚀️ Control the visibility of the View Cart and Checkout buttons displayed in the floating cart tray.
🚀️ Display your custom message on the fast-cart tray when the cart is empty.
Floating Cart Icon Settings Options
🚀️ Enable or disable WooCommerce floating cart icon
🚀️ Control the display position of the floating cart icon
🚀️ Enable the shake effect to prompt the customer for checkout
🚀️ Hide the floating cart counter bubble if there are no items added (the cart is empty)
🚀️ Hide the floating cart if there are no items added (the cart is empty)
Styling Options
🚀️ Set the mode (style) to Light/Dark
🚀️ Choose a color that best matches your brand
🚀️ Choose a style to display View Cart and Checkout button in two different formats
🚀️ Get instant insights into cart activity without leaving your dashboard. See total opens, daily usage, and 7-day trends to understand shopper engagement at a glance.
Key Features of Fast Cart
⚡ Ultralight & Performance-Focused
Isn’t site performance the main headache that keeps store owners awake at night? We built Fast Cart specifically for performance junkies. You get a feature-complete Ajax cart drawer without heavy JS frameworks, layout shifts, or bloated stylesheets slowing down your Core Web Vitals.
🛒 Interactive Floating Cart Icon
Keep the cart accessible anywhere on your site with the Floating Cart Trigger. It displays the real-time item count and can trigger a subtle shake animation to draw customers’ attention and prompt them to check out.
⚙️ Granular Customization Options
This WooCommerce Side Cart with Free Shipping Bar offers granular control for both the Ajax Side Cart and the Floating Cart Icon. Options are distributed under logical sections to ensure you get the desired output in the shortest time.
♿ Accessibility-First Design (a11y)
Make your store inclusive and compliant. Fast Cart is built with standard semantic markup, proper ARIA attributes, full keyboard navigation, and screen reader support. It keeps your store compliant while giving every shopper a smooth, barrier-free shopping experience.
🚚 WooCommerce Free Shipping Bar
Boost your Average Order Value with a dynamic Free Shipping Bar. Show a real-time progress bar in the Ajax cart drawer that lets customers know exactly how much more they need to add to qualify for free shipping.
🎨 Clean, Modern, Responsive Side Cart UI
Fast Cart has a modern, vibrant design while ensuring responsiveness across your store pages. Customers will love the user interface for tweaking or removing items in their cart.
🔄 Instant Ajax Actions
Customers can add items, change product quantities, or remove items in real time without refreshing the page.
🌓 Styling Options (Light/Dark Mode)
You will also love Fast Cart’s customization options. You can switch between light and dark mode and set your desired colors for both the Ajax Side Cart and the Floating Cart Icon. Apart from the listed customization options, if you want to customize something, please let us know. We will be more than happy to help you out.
Yes, Fast Cart for WooCommerce is compatible with both the Ajax and Normal Add To Cart. So, you can enjoy the side cart feature on product details pages too.
Adding a side cart to your WooCommerce store is simplified by Fast Cart for WooCommerce. Installing it will add an interactive Ajax Side Cart to your WooCommerce store. You can learn more about the installation process here – https://wordpress.org/plugins/fast-cart/#installation
We have a large community of theme and plugin authors. It is difficult for any plugin author to guarantee compatibility with every theme. If you notice an issue, report it to us instantly.
- Seamless Shopping Experience: Customers review their order items immediately without leaving the page they are browsing.
- Higher Conversions & AOV (Average Order Value): Nudge customers toward checkout with a floating cart animation and dynamic free shipping progress bar.
- Zero Performance Loss: Lightweight code ensures your Google PageSpeed and Core Web Vitals stay green while giving shoppers a modern cart experience.
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