Live Carts for WooCommerce vs OrderStorm E-commerce

The Live Carts plugin by BerryPress extends WooCommerce by adding real-time tracking of all customer shopping carts within your WordPress admin. It provides a complete list of customer carts, including their status (active, abandoned, or converted) and total value. Clicking a cart ID reveals more details, including all products and quantities in the cart. Optionally, the plugin can display a cart ID on the frontend, visible to the customer. The admin interface supports searching for carts based on this ID. This allows store support to look up a customer cart if the customer provides their cart ID. The plugin also calculates some basic cart statistics at Analytics > Carts, with date filtering based on the cart creation date. Shopper Lists Version 1.3.0 adds admin visibility into WooCommerce Shopper Lists — the built-in Wishlist and Save for Later features in WooCommerce 10.9. When you enable those features in WooCommerce, Live Carts tracks each logged-in customer’s lists alongside active carts. Open the Shopper Lists tab in the Live Carts admin to browse lists by customer, list type, value, and last seen. Shopper Lists in WooCommerce core are currently experimental and require Gutenberg Blocks. Requirements: WooCommerce 10.9 or higher, with at least one Shopper List feature enabled under WooCommerce → Settings → Advanced → Features (Wishlist and/or Save for Later). This feature only monitors lists that WooCommerce core stores when its Shopper List features are turned on. Features List real-time and past carts Shopper Lists tracking – Monitor WooCommerce’s built-in Wishlist and Save for Later lists in the admin (requires WooCommerce’s Shopper List features) Filter cart list by status (Active/Converted/Abandoned) See the name of the logged-in user (if any) associated with each cart View visitor IP addresses in the cart list (respects privacy settings) See cart updates instantly as items are added, removed, or quantities change See the most recent URL that each cart was loaded on View cart products with thumbnails, product attributes, quantities, and total cart value — along with any applied coupon codes View cart revision history – See all changes to cart contents over time (added, removed, quantity changes) Search for carts by unique cart ID Bulk delete carts directly from the cart list Optionally display the cart ID on the frontend to easily match to a cart record in the backend Use the [berrypress_live_cart_id] shortcode to display the visitor’s cart ID anywhere on your site – ideal for Contact Us or Support pages, so customers can easily share their cart ID with your support team Optionally disable collection of IP addresses and/or last visited URLs in this plugin’s cart database Automatically archive older cart records Get cart conversion rate, cart abandonment rate, and average cart value metrics for a specified period of time (under Analytics > Carts) Status & Diagnostics page – Quickly verify your environment with health checks for WordPress, PHP, WooCommerce, database tables, migration status, and cron schedule Built-in debug logging with configurable log levels, in-admin log viewer, and downloadable log files Cart data collected by this plugin is stored in custom database tables to avoid cluttering default WordPress tables Built-in extensibility via filter and action hooks Get Pro Features Upgrade to Live Carts Pro here and unlock powerful tools to manage and recover customer carts more effectively: Core Pro Features: 🛒 Edit cart contents in the backend – Easily adjust products, quantities, or remove items directly from the admin. 🔗 Generate cart recovery URLs – Create secure one-click links customers can use to restore their carts. 🧾 Convert a cart to an order with one click – Turn any cart into a completed order instantly. 🔍 Advanced cart filtering – Filter carts by product, customer, or min/max cart value for precise analysis. 📋 Product meta display – View custom product metadata and additional product fields directly in the cart details view. 📧 Recovery Emails (Coming Soon) – Automated email campaigns for abandoned cart recovery with customizable timing and discount coupons. Additional Pro Settings: Role Exclusions – Do not track carts for specific user roles (e.g., administrators, shop managers) Custom IP Header – Specify HTTP header for IP detection (for Cloudflare, proxies: X-Forwarded-For, CF-Connecting-IP, etc.) Cart Revision Toggle – Enable or disable cart change history tracking to save database space if not needed Product Weight Display – View total and per-item product weight in cart details for shipping calculations Custom Abandoned Timing – Define how many hours of inactivity mark a cart as abandoned (default: 2 hours) Custom Archiving – Change how many days of inactivity before carts are archived (default: 30 days) Take full control of your WooCommerce carts with BerryPress Live Carts Pro. Documentation Explore the full Live Carts documentation. You may also like these plugins BerryPress has built a range of powerful plugins for WooCommerce and WordPress. 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NOTE: Please go to http://www.OrderStorm.com to sign up for either a free or a paid subscription to use this plugin. OrderStorm is a SaaS solution. Since all data is entered and stored in the secure OrderStorm cloud, you won’t see much in the dashboard after you install the plugin. You must log in at http://www.OrderStorm.com to see and use all the back end functionality. Unlike other SaaS e-commerce solutions, OrderStorm delivers front-end applications that are resident on (not remote to) your website. Customers never leave your website and there is no linking out to complete a purchase. Product Description OrderStorm E-commerce – A feature-rich shopping cart that runs on your WordPress website, hosted anywhere. You can sell your products with flexibility, customization, security and integrity with the OrderStorm E-commerce plugin and achieve online success. Works with any theme. The OrderStorm E-commerce engine is a cloud computing solution. Our servers do the heavy lifting and all you need is to use the OrderStorm E-commerce plugin to access the power of our feature-rich shopping cart. The OrderStorm E-commerce shopping cart is a full featured product for serious web merchants. Categories and Products are not WordPress pages or posts. They are stored in external databases. OrderStorm E-commerce is just right for: Businesses that need more functionality than the other plugins provide Businesses that are drop-shipping from more than one supplier Businesses models that create a quote or estimate that can later be converted to a sale Stores with large numbers of SKUs Businesses that have multiple CSRs working on orders The OrderStorm E-commerce shopping cart offers a wide range of built-in features, making it easy to manage your product catalog and your day-to-day sales. Shopping cart features include: Creative product display, using backend-configurable templates and styles Drag and drop categories menu Unlimited number of features and options Automatic sizing of thumbnail, medium and large images Drag and drop image gallery Color configurator to customize your item and display in different colors prior to purchase Related links to installation instructions, drawings, manuals or other documents Up-sell with optional product add-ons Import products from a spreadsheet Batch price updates Quantity discounts Product bundles – apply quantity discounts across product variations and similar products Automated drop shipping features including POs to suppliers Vendor management Search engine optimization (SEO) with meta page title and description for each category and product Integrated with the Google XML Sitemaps plugin for proper product indexing. Full range of transactions from simple credit card processing to complex transactions with deposits and contracts Accept credit cards, checks, money orders, wire transfers, Google Checkout and PayPal Express PCI compliant No SSL required – checkout uses OrderStorm’s SSL. Large selection of gateways Sends email order confirmations and shipping notices Set coupon codes for promotions Accept file uploads with an order Sales tax collection Automated FAQ list per product Easy order management including order Notes and Action Items lists Mobile marketing. Manage your cart from your mobile device Free shipping, free shipping on orders over X dollars, charge by flat rate or percent of order total Flexible options for different shipping zones and international shipping Reports including sales per product, COGS and sales by day, month, year Youth Sports Camps Online event registration Multiple online payment options Accept checks Collect detailed information on campers Camp Rosters Customizable camp forms Liability Wavers Manage campers Daily Check-in Numbered wrist bands Point of Sale (POS) – sell jerseys, balls, sports memorabilia at your camp store Email receipts Camp dashboard – Registration numbers, summaries for t-shirt/shorts orders, total sales by camp, scholarships Export mailing lists Easy Order Management Log phone calls and emails with the corresponding registration See all communication with parents Setup The plugin creates 3 pages: Product, Category and Checkout. Set the Product and Checkout pages to not display in your menu – those have nothing on them but shortcodes. The Category page shows all of your root categories. You can either use this page or set it to not display if you are using the Categories Menu widget in a sidebar. Rename these pages and their permalinks to something that is SEO friendly for your particular site: go to the OrderStorm.com sys admin to Settings, Storefront Settings and enter the slugs in the corresponding fields. The Key you see is an example key. To add your categories and products to the shopping cart, sign up for a subscription on the http://www.OrderStorm.com/wordpress-e-commerce-sign-up/ecommerce-wordpress-plugin-pricing/ page. After you sign up and login through the OrderStorm.com home page, you will find the key under Settings -> WordPress/API keys. Replace the example key with your key. Note that even the free version requires a subscription and key. Customize Appearance Two widgets are added to the Widgets page during the initial installation. One for the Categories Menu and another for the Shopping Cart status box. You can put them anywhere you want plus put them in multiple places on your site. To display the Categories Menu, go to Appearance, Widgets. The OrderStorm E-commerce widgets were added to the list of Widgets during installation. Drag the Categories Menu widget to a sidebar wherever you want it. To change the Categories Menu settings, click the arrow on the widget to open up the settings box. Maximum menu level depth can be set as 0, which displays all menus or any other number to limit the number of menu levels that fly out before a customer has to click on something. The Parent Category Key can be set if you want to display a subset of the menu on a particular page. The OrderStorm View Cart Status widget draws a box that shows how many items are currently in the customer’s shopping cart and the total dollar amount. Customers can click on this box to check out. The View Cart Status box can be included in any part of a theme. This example shows the way to include it in PHP. The ‘topright’ value you see is an argument for the function’s $idSuffix parameter, used to provide a unique ID for the DIV containing the status box. Each instance should be named differently, using this suffix, in order to allow for styling or ostrm_shopping_cart_status_$idSuffix, which for the PHP code example above would translate into: ostrm_shopping_cart_status_topright. To change the look of the categories and products, go to the Plugin page. Then go to OrderStorm E-commerce, click on ‘Edit’. The .css files controlling the appearance of the categories, subcategories and products are here. You can completely customize colors, fonts, product display, product box sizes etc. After you have your .css files changed the way you want them, create a backup copy of your .css files in a separate folder or use the OrderStorm eCommerce Custom Files Manager plugin. OrderStorm will overwrite the main plugin .css files when we issue updates.