Live Carts for WooCommerce vs Simple Shopping Cart

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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The Simple Shopping Cart plugin enables you to effortlessly add ‘Add to Cart’ buttons for your products or services directly on your website. This lightweight plugin transforms your WordPress site into a fully functional e-commerce platform, allowing you to sell products and services with ease. With this plugin, your customers have the convenience of paying for their selected items using popular payment gateways such as PayPal and/or Stripe. You can easily display the shopping cart on any post, page, or sidebar. The cart provides users with a clear view of their selected items, allowing them to adjust quantities or remove items effortlessly. The plugin offers the newest/latest PayPal Commerce Platform (PPCP) checkout option. You can enable it in the settings menu of the plugin. Checkout Process Demonstration It offers a simple and seamless checkout process for your customers. To see a demonstration of how the checkout process works, please refer to the following video: Easily Create Products You will be able to create products by using shortcodes dynamically. If you have a responsive theme, the shopping cart’s output will adapt seamlessly to ensure a mobile-friendly shopping experience. Furthermore, this plugin provides a simple solution for selling digital products. To see a demonstration of how you can effectively sell your digital media files using the simple cart plugin, please refer to the following video: Engineered for a Lightweight Solution Designed as a lightweight solution with minimal lines of code and a streamlined set of options, this plugin ensures optimal site performance. Moreover, it is designed to be a low maintenance solution, minimizing the likelihood of frequent site disruptions caused by upgrades. With this plugin, you can enjoy a stable and hassle-free shopping cart functionality while maintaining the overall stability of your website. Simple Shopping Cart Plugin, interfaces with the PayPal sandbox and Stripe testmode to allow for testing. Documentation For documentation, video tutorials, screenshots, support, and updates, please visit: Simple Shopping Cart Documentation or Simple Shopping Cart Details Page Features Easily create “add to cart” button with options if needed (price, shipping, options variations). The cart’s shortcode can be displayed on posts or pages. Use a function to add dynamic “add to cart” button directly in your theme. Minimal number of configuration items to keep the plugin lightweight. Sell any kind of tangible products from your site. Ability to sell services from your your site. Sell any type of media file that you upload to your WordPress site. For example: you can sell ebooks (PDF), music files (MP3), audio files, videos, photos, images etc. Your customers will automatically get an email with the media file that they paid for. Show a nicely formatted product display box on the fly using a simple shortcode. Option to enable terms and conditions for your customers to agree to before they checkout. Uses the newest/latest PayPal checkout option. Option to use the PayPal Commerce Platform Checkout option. You can enable it from the settings menu of the plugin. Option to use the smart payment buttons of PayPal. Allows the customers to checkout in a popup window (using a credit card, paypal or paypal credit). Your customers will be able to use the PayPal’ Pay in 4 payment option (Buy Now Pay Later). You can use PayPal sandbox to do testing if needed (before you go live). Ability to offer the Stripe checkout option. Your customers can conveniently make credit card payments through the secure Stripe payment gateway. You can use Stripe testmode to do testing if needed (before going live). The Stripe checkout will display payment method options based on what you, as the merchant, have enabled in your Stripe account. You can offer a manual/offline payment option using the Manual Checkout feature. Ability to display the order summary on the ‘Thank You’ page. Refer to this documentation for more details. The orders menu will show you all the orders that you have received from your site. Ability to configure an email that will get sent to your buyers after they purchase your product. Ability to configure a sale notification email that gets sent to the site admin when a customer purchase your item(s). Ability to configure discount coupons. Offer special discounts on your store/shop. You can create coupons and give to your customers. When they use coupons during the checkout they will receive a discount. Create discount coupons with an expiry date. The coupon code automatically expires after the date you set. Compatible with WordPress Multi-site Installation. Ability to specify SKU (item number) for each of your products in the shortcode. Ability to customize the add to cart button image and use a custom image for your purchase buttons. Ability to customize the add to cart button text via shortcode parameter on a per product basis. Track coupons with the order to see which customer used which coupon code. Ability to add a compact shopping cart to your site using a shortcode. Ability to show shopping cart with product image thumbnails. Ability to use a custom checkout page style. Ability to configure region based shipping additions. Store pickup option – let customers pick up orders from your store. Ability to use blocks to add the ‘add to cart’ button and the ‘shopping cart’ to your posts/pages/sidebar. Option to enable AJAX add to cart buttons for a smoother user experience. Option to hide the quantity field in the shopping cart. This can be useful for a site selling only digital products where the quantity is always 1. Works nicely with responsive WordPress themes. Can be translated into any language. and more… Shopping Cart Setup Video Tutorials There is a series of video tutorials to show you how to set up the shopping cart plugin on your site. Check the video tutorials here. Language Translations The following language translations are already available: English German Spanish French Breton Italian Japanese Polish Czech Hebrew Swedish Norwegian Danish Turkish Dutch Brazilian Portuguese You can translate the plugin using this documentation. Developers If you are a developer and you need some extra hooks or filters for this plugin please let us know. Github repository Usage 1) To add an ‘Add to Cart’ button for a product, simply add the following shortcode to a post or page next to the product. Replace PRODUCT-NAME and PRODUCT-PRICE with the actual name and price. [wp_cart_button name="PRODUCT-NAME" price="PRODUCT-PRICE"] 2) To add the shopping cart to a post or page (eg. checkout page) add the following shortcode to a post or page or use the sidebar widget to add the shopping cart to the sidebar. The shopping cart will only be visible in a post or page when a customer adds a product. [show_wp_shopping_cart] 3) Alternatively, you have the option to utilize the Gutenberg editor blocks provided by this plugin to conveniently insert the add to cart button and shopping cart in desired locations within your content. Read the documentation for using the blocks 4) To insert the ‘Add to Cart’ button from a template or PHP file, you can utilize the following PHP function: Replace PRODUCT-NAME and PRODUCT-PRICE with the actual name and price. Using Product Display Box Here is an exmaple shortcode that shows you how to use a product display box. [wp_cart_display_product name="My Awesome Product" price="25.00" thumbnail="http://www.example.com/images/product-image.jpg" description="This is a short description of the product"] Simply replace the values with your product specific data Using a compact shopping cart Add the following shortcode where you want to show the compact shopping cart: [wp_compact_cart] Using Shipping To apply a shipping cost to your product, use the ‘shipping’ parameter. Below is an example of how to include it in a shortcode: [wp_cart_button name="Test Product" price="19.95" shipping="4.99"] Visit the shipping setup documentation page for more details. Using Variation Control (Product Variations) To enable variation control, use the variation parameter. Below is an example of how to include it in a shortcode: [wp_cart_button name="Test Product" price="25.95" var1="VARIATION-NAME|VARIATION1|VARIATION2|VARIATION3"] Example shortcode usage: [wp_cart_button name="Test Product" price="29.95" var1="Size|small|medium|large"] To add multiple variations to a product (such as a second or third variation), use the following format: [wp_cart_button name="Test Product" price="29.95" var1="Size|small|medium|large" var2="Color|red|green|blue"] To add variations with price modifiers to a product (so the selected variation can update the price), use the following format: [wp_cart_button name="Test Product" price="15.00" var1="Size|small|medium::5|large::10" var2="Color|red|green::2|blue::3" var3="Sleeve|short|full::5"]