CartLane – Side Cart for WooCommerce

Description

A Faster WooCommerce Cart With More Ways to Grow Order Value

CartLane gives WooCommerce stores a fast AJAX Side Cart customers can use without leaving the page they are browsing. Shoppers can update quantities, apply coupons, see live totals, follow a free-shipping goal, and continue to checkout from one focused cart drawer.

Start with the Side Cart and see the storefront result immediately. When you are ready, expand the same CartLane setup with Smart Offers, checkout Order Bumps, abandoned-cart recovery, pricing rules, funnels, and built-in conversion analytics.

No external SaaS account is required for CartLane Free.

Get Your First Storefront Result Fast

CartLane is designed so a new store can verify its first useful result before configuring advanced conversion workflows.

1. Confirm the WooCommerce store pages CartLane needs.
2. Enable or review the Side Cart with the recommended defaults.
3. Open the guided storefront test and add a product.
4. Confirm the CartLane Side Cart opens and updates the cart.
5. Finish setup, then add optional offers, recovery, and checkout enhancements when they fit your store.

The guided test is bounded and does not create a real order or count test activity as customer revenue.

AJAX Side Cart for WooCommerce

Give customers a faster way to review and update their cart without leaving the page they are browsing.

• Slide-out AJAX cart drawer
• Increase, decrease, or remove cart items without a full page reload
• Apply and remove coupon codes inside the drawer
• Live subtotal, discount, shipping, and total updates
• Free-shipping goal and progress messaging
• Responsive layout for desktop, tablet, and mobile
• Accessible controls, labels, and keyboard behavior
• Store-page visibility controls

What You Get in CartLane Free

• AJAX Side Cart with quantity controls, coupon support, and live totals
• Free-shipping progress messaging
• One active Side Cart Smart Offer with manual products and simple cart targeting
• Two active checkout Order Bumps
• Checkout trust signals and urgency controls
• Automated abandoned-cart recovery workflows
• Secure restore-cart links for recovery emails
• Recovery email preview and test-email workflow
• One active basic Dynamic Pricing or BOGO rule
• One active basic linear Funnel with up to two executable steps
• WooCommerce revenue and conversion analytics
• Recent privacy-safe analytics activity
• HPOS compatibility
• Conditional frontend asset loading

No coding is required. Start with the Side Cart, then enable the additional CartLane modules that fit your store.

For setup guides and feature documentation, visit the CartLane documentation.

WooCommerce Order Bumps

Present a complementary offer during checkout and let customers add it to their order with one click.

• Two active order bumps in CartLane Free
• AJAX add-to-order interaction
• Product, category, and cart-condition targeting
• Classic and Minimal templates in CartLane Free
• Configurable offer copy, labels, and core presentation controls
• Offer impression, acceptance, paid-conversion, and revenue reporting

Checkout Optimization

Reduce friction and add confidence-building elements around the WooCommerce checkout.

• Checkout behavior and presentation controls
• Trust badge rows
• Countdown and urgency messaging
• Configurable accent presets
• Cleaner customer-facing checkout presentation
• WooCommerce classic checkout and Checkout Blocks support

Abandoned Cart Recovery

Keep recovery available as a focused follow-up workflow after the storefront experience is working. When an eligible shopper provides an email address but leaves before completing checkout, CartLane can retain the cart session and run your configured recovery sequence.

• Capture eligible guest and registered-customer cart sessions
• Configure a recovery email sequence and timing
• Bring shoppers back with secure restore-cart links
• Preview recovery emails and send test emails before going live
• Resend recovery messages manually when needed
• Track abandoned, recovered, and recovery-attributed revenue
• Respect unsubscribe requests and scheduled data cleanup

Recovery email delivery depends on your WordPress email configuration. For reliable production delivery, use a properly configured transactional email or SMTP provider.

Smart Offers

Recommend relevant products inside the Side Cart without adding a separate recommendation service.

• One effectively active Smart Offer in CartLane Free
• Manual recommended-product selection
• Side Cart placement
• Optional minimum cart subtotal and item-count targeting
• Impression, click, accepted-offer, and paid-revenue attribution where reliable evidence exists
• Additional campaigns can be kept as drafts without deleting configuration

CartLane Pro adds unlimited active campaigns, multiple placements, recommendation scoring, Frequently Bought Together, Checkout Add-ons, recipes, advanced targeting, and deeper Smart Offer intelligence.

Dynamic Pricing and BOGO

Create a basic cart pricing rule without adding a separate pricing plugin.

• One active pricing rule in CartLane Free
• Percentage and fixed discounts
• Basic same-item BOGO rules
• Product and category scope
• Minimum quantity and minimum subtotal conditions
• Advanced targeting, schedules, usage limits, quantity tiers, role pricing, and unlimited active rules require CartLane Pro

Funnels

Build a bounded basic conversion path in CartLane Free and extend it with advanced Pro capabilities when needed.

• One active Funnel in CartLane Free
• Basic linear path
• Up to two executable steps
• Shared CartLane runtime and management workspace
• Advanced branching, deeper step sequences, advanced targeting, multi-offer sequences, and advanced analytics require CartLane Pro

Analytics and Conversion Activity

Use the built-in reporting tools to understand what is happening across your store.

• Store revenue and order summaries
• Average order value and conversion signals
• Order-bump performance
• Abandoned-cart and recovered-revenue reporting
• Recent privacy-safe conversion activity
• 7, 30, and 90-day reporting periods
• Bounded analytics queries and versioned report caching

Advanced revenue intelligence, complete event history, customer segmentation, investigation tools, advanced filters, and exports are available through CartLane Pro.

CartLane stores its operational and analytics records in your WordPress database. The free plugin does not require an external analytics SaaS account.

Built for Performance

CartLane is designed to load only what each experience needs.

• Vanilla JavaScript storefront runtime with no CartLane jQuery dependency
• Conditional CSS and JavaScript loading
• Route-based admin bundles
• Modern React-powered WordPress admin application
• Enforced production bundle budgets
• Dedicated database tables for CartLane workflows
• High-Performance Order Storage compatibility

Actual performance depends on your theme, hosting, WooCommerce configuration, product catalog, and other active plugins.

CartLane Pro

CartLane Pro extends the free plugin inside the same CartLane interface. Depending on the installed Pro version and active entitlement, Pro modules include:

• Visual funnel workflows
• Post-purchase upsells
• A/B testing
• Dynamic pricing and BOGO campaigns
• Role-based and quantity-based pricing
• Unlimited active order bumps
• Extended reporting ranges
• Advanced revenue intelligence and forecasting
• Customer segmentation and event investigation
• Advanced filters, complete history, and exports
• Unlimited Smart Offers with advanced recommendations, placements, targeting, and revenue workflows

CartLane Pro requires the free CartLane plugin. Free features continue to work without a Pro license.

Compatibility

CartLane is built for WooCommerce and follows standard WordPress integration patterns.

• WordPress 6.3 or newer
• PHP 8.0 or newer
• WooCommerce 7.0 or newer
• Tested with WooCommerce up to the version declared above
• WooCommerce High-Performance Order Storage
• Common WordPress themes and page builders that preserve standard WooCommerce hooks
• Standard WooCommerce payment flows

Because themes, checkout customizations, and payment extensions can alter WooCommerce markup and behavior, test conversion features on a staging site before enabling them on a live store.

Privacy and Store Data

CartLane Free processes cart, checkout, order, recovery, and analytics data on your WordPress site to provide its features. Depending on the modules you enable, this may include customer contact details entered during checkout, cart contents, order references, campaign activity, visit/session identifiers, and recovery events.

Store owners are responsible for configuring appropriate privacy disclosures, consent flows, retention settings, and email practices for their jurisdiction and business.

Developer Information

CartLane includes a namespaced REST API and WordPress hooks used by its admin and storefront modules. Human-readable source archives and build instructions for released Free versions are available from the public source page linked near the end of this readme.

Development / Source Code

CartLane distributes compiled production assets in the installable plugin package.

The matching human-readable source code and build instructions for each release are published at:

View CartLane source code and build instructions

For every CartLane release, the source page publishes a versioned source archive, its SHA-256 checksum, matching build instructions, and historical source versions.

The public source archive includes the React, JavaScript, CSS, PHP, dependency lockfiles, and build configuration used to generate the distributed production assets. Rebuild the production assets from an extracted archive with:

npm ci

npm run build:assets

CartLane Pro source, licensing-server source, private planning, credentials, and deployment configuration are not included in the public Free-source archive.

Technical details

Version	1.1.8
Last updated	September 29, 2026
Requires WordPress	6.3 or higher
Requires PHP	8.0 or higher
Author	Tophive
Tags	abandoned-cart, ajax-cart, free-shipping-bar, side-cart, woocommerce