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Fast Cart – Ultralight Ajax Side Cart for WooCommerce

by WPXtension

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(5 ratings)

Fast 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
πŸš€οΈ Open side cart on Ajax Add to Cart
πŸš€οΈ Open the side cart on Normal Add to Cart
πŸš€οΈ Hide or show an overlay layer
πŸš€οΈ Ability to control Tray position
(display position of the side cart)
πŸš€οΈ Control how users close the side cart
πŸš€ Refresh WooCommerce cart fragments to observe settings changes immediately
πŸš€ Display the cart icon and added item prices total with menus
πŸš€ Open a popup right after adding products to the cart to display the current carted item.
πŸš€ Free Shipping Progress bar.

Item Settings Options
πŸš€οΈ Link Behavior of item (how you want the link to open)
πŸš€οΈ Show the current cart items at the top of the list.
πŸš€οΈ Display a link to remove all the carted items from the cart tray.
πŸš€οΈ Before removing all items from the cart tray, display a confirmation message.
πŸš€οΈ Display the strikethrough regular price with the sale price for an item.
πŸš€οΈ Enable or disable the remove item from cart button
πŸš€οΈ Add or remove the quantity field on the side cart
πŸš€οΈ Display plus/minus button with the quantity field to control the quantities from the cart tray.
πŸš€οΈ Show or hide the total price of the items added
πŸš€οΈ Control the visibility of the View Cart and Checkout buttons displayed in the floating cart tray.
πŸš€οΈ Display your custom message on the fast-cart tray when the cart is empty.

Floating Cart Icon Settings Options
πŸš€οΈ Enable or disable WooCommerce floating cart icon
πŸš€οΈ Control the display position of the floating cart icon
πŸš€οΈ Enable the shake effect to prompt the customer for checkout
πŸš€οΈ Hide the floating cart counter bubble if there are no items added (the cart is empty)
πŸš€οΈ Hide the floating cart if there are no items added (the cart is empty)

Styling Options
πŸš€οΈ Set the mode (style) to Light/Dark
πŸš€οΈ Choose a color that best matches your brand
πŸš€οΈ Choose a style to display View Cart and Checkout button in two different formats

πŸš€οΈ 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.

πŸ›’ 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.

βš™οΈ 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.

β™Ώ 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.

πŸ”„ Instant Ajax Actions
Customers can add items, change product quantities, or remove items in real time without refreshing the page.

πŸŒ“ 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.

Screenshots

Settings link of the plugin.

Settings link of the plugin.

Sub menu under WPXtension Menu.

Sub menu under WPXtension Menu.

Plugin Details

Active Installs
200
Total Downloads
12,976
Version
1.2.5
Requires WP
5.5
Requires PHP
7.2
Tested Up To
7.1
Added
2023-02-18
Last Updated
2026-08-29 1:52pm GMT

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