Cart Share is a free WooCommerce plugin by Autora Lab that lets shoppers send their cart to someone else.
A cart is often built by one person and paid for by another. Meera fills a cart with gifts and sends it to Daniel. A team picks the office order and the manager pays. Cart Share puts a Share cart button on your cart page, so that hand-off takes one link.
How it works
- The shopper taps Share cart on the cart page.
- They send the link in WhatsApp, email, a text message or any other app.
- Whoever opens the link gets the same products, quantities and coupons, and lands at checkout.
Why stores add it
- Gift lists. Shoppers send the exact gift they want, in the right size, to the person who is buying it.
- Team and office orders. One person picks the items, another pays.
- Selling over chat. Build a cart for a customer in the Link Generator and send it in the chat you already use.
- The holiday sale. Shoppers make their lists before Black Friday and pass them on. A shared cart turns a list into an order.
Features
- A Share cart button on the Cart block and on the classic cart, styled by your theme. Works with block themes and classic themes.
- A share popup with WhatsApp, Facebook, X (Twitter), LinkedIn, Telegram, Email, SMS and Threads. Turn on Pinterest, Reddit, Viber and Snapchat if you want them. Shoppers can also copy the link.
- On phones, Share cart opens the phone’s own share menu, so shoppers can use any app they have.
- Your own button label, and a share message you pick or write.
- Links keep the products, quantities, coupons and chosen options such as a size.
- When someone opens a shared link, their own cart is saved. One click brings those items back.
- If an item in a shared cart has sold out, a notice names it.
- A Link Generator for store owners: pick products, quantities and coupons, add a campaign name and copy the link.
- A private note on each shared-cart order, such as “Placed from a shared cart (WhatsApp).”
- Every link carries
utm_source=cart-share, so WooCommerce’s order attribution shows where the order came from, and tools like Google Analytics show where the visit came from. - On WooCommerce 10 and newer, most links use WooCommerce’s own checkout link, so they keep working even if you remove Cart Share.
- Translation ready and accessible (WCAG 2.1 AA).
- Works with High-Performance Order Storage (HPOS).
What it doesn’t do
- Extra product options from other plugins (add-ons, bundles, custom fields) don’t travel in the link.
- A link doesn’t fix prices. Whoever opens it pays the store’s price on that day.
Privacy
Cart Share adds a private note to orders placed from a shared link, naming the app and the campaign. It stores nothing personal. The shopper’s WooCommerce session keeps the app and campaign of the link they opened, and their earlier cart, until the session ends. The plugin makes no requests to outside services and adds no database tables.
Requirements
- WordPress 6.0 or newer
- WooCommerce 8.0 or newer (WooCommerce 10 or newer for WooCommerce’s own checkout links)
- PHP 7.4 or newer
Documentation
Setup, every setting and the developer filters are in the Cart Share docs on autoralab.net.
Pay the people behind your products
Product Revenue Share is a WooCommerce plugin by Autora Lab that records what each collaborator earns every time their product sells: a percentage of the sale or a fixed amount per item.
Screenshots
The Share cart button on the Cart block.
Share to WhatsApp, email and more, or copy the link.
The person who opens the link lands at checkout with the same items and coupon.
Change the button label and the share message.
Build a cart link for a customer, with a campaign name.
WooCommerce's order attribution shows the order came from a cart shared on WhatsApp.