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 fro
PricingFree downloadThe WordPress.org download is free. Pro versions, add-ons or external services may cost extra.
CompatibilityRequires WordPress 6.3 and PHP 8.0.
SourceWordPress plugins · Nov 9, 2026
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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.
01Confirm the WooCommerce store pages CartLane needs.
02Enable or review the Side Cart with the recommended defaults.
03Open the guided storefront test and add a product.
04Confirm the CartLane Side Cart opens and updates the cart.
05Finish 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
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.
See it in action
Screenshots & previews.
AJAX Side Cart open on a WooCommerce storefront with live totals, quantity controls, coupon access, free-shipping progress, and a Smart Offer.Free-shipping progress inside the Side Cart showing how much remains before the shopper reaches the configured goal.Side Cart Smart Offer added with one click while the cart stays open and totals update.Mobile Side Cart with responsive product controls, coupon access, totals, and checkout action.Guided First Value Journey verifying add-to-cart and Side Cart activity on the real storefront without counting test revenue.Checkout Order Bump editor with targeting, content, design, timer, and live-preview controls.Abandoned Cart workspace with recovery health, cart records, campaigns, performance, and recovered-revenue context.Recovery email editor with merge tags, message content, CTA controls, preview, and test sending.Orders workspace with action queues, filtering, order details, and safe fulfilment actions.Revenue Overview dashboard with WooCommerce revenue, conversion signals, recent orders, and system status.WooCommerce Checkout Block with order summary, trust badges, urgency timer, low-stock notice, and a one-click checkout order bump.
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Gettingstarted.
Install from WordPress Admin
01In WordPress, go to Plugins > Add New.
02Search for “CartLane”.
03Click Install Now.
04Click Activate.
05Open CartLane from the WordPress admin menu.
06Enable and configure the modules you want to use.
Manual Installation
07Download the CartLane ZIP file.
08Go to Plugins > Add New > Upload Plugin.
09Select the ZIP file and click Install Now.
10Activate CartLane.
11Open CartLane from the WordPress admin menu.
Recommended First Setup
12Open CartLane > Dashboard and review Revenue Rescue and system status.
13Configure Abandoned Cart recovery timing and email content.
14Send a test recovery email and verify that the restore-cart link works.
15Run a recovery test before enabling the workflow for live shoppers.
16Configure the Side Cart and test it on desktop and mobile.
17Configure Checkout controls and verify your checkout page.
18Create one Order Bump and test its targeting rules.
19Place test orders using each payment method you support.
20Clear all page, object, CDN, and browser caches before final testing.
Always test cart restoration, coupons, taxes, shipping, checkout fields, and payment completion on a staging site before enabling conversion workflows in production.
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Frequently asked questions.
What does CartLane help a WooCommerce store do?
CartLane starts with abandoned-cart recovery: it can retain eligible checkout sessions, send your configured recovery emails, restore saved carts, and attribute recovered revenue. It also includes an AJAX side cart, checkout optimization controls, two active order bumps, and conversion analytics.
Can CartLane recover abandoned carts automatically?
Yes. When an eligible shopper enters an email address and leaves without completing checkout, CartLane can retain the cart session and process your configured recovery sequence. Recovery emails include a secure link that restores the saved cart.
Does abandoned-cart recovery work for guest customers?
CartLane can capture eligible guest checkout sessions after the shopper provides the information required by the recovery workflow. Your theme, checkout implementation, consent requirements, caching, and security configuration can affect capture behavior, so test it on your store.
Can I send a test recovery email?
Yes. The Abandoned Cart interface includes email preview and test-email controls. Successful delivery still depends on your WordPress mail configuration.
Does CartLane include an AJAX side cart?
Yes. Customers can review items, update quantities, remove products, apply coupons, and see recalculated totals in a slide-out cart without a standard full-page cart refresh.
Does CartLane replace the WooCommerce cart page?
The Side Cart can reduce the need to visit the traditional cart page, but CartLane does not remove WooCommerce core pages. Your store can continue to use its normal cart and checkout URLs.
How many order bumps are included for free?
CartLane Free supports two active order bumps. CartLane Pro unlocks unlimited order-bump capacity and advanced conversion modules.
What is a WooCommerce order bump?
An order bump is a relevant product offer presented during checkout. The customer can add the offered product to the current order without leaving checkout.
Can I target an order bump?
Yes. Available conditions include product, category, and cart-based targeting. Review the editor in your installed version for the complete set of available conditions.
Is CartLane compatible with WooCommerce HPOS?
Yes. CartLane declares and implements compatibility with WooCommerce High-Performance Order Storage.
Does CartLane support WooCommerce Checkout Blocks?
Yes. CartLane supports both the classic WooCommerce checkout and WooCommerce Checkout Blocks. Supported CartLane features include Order Bumps, trust signals, countdown messaging, stock scarcity, and abandoned-cart contact capture. CartLane Pro can also extend Checkout Blocks with Checkout Add-ons. Field customization can differ between classic checkout and Checkout Blocks where WooCommerce does not expose an equivalent extension API. Test every enabled feature on your actual checkout.
Will CartLane slow down my store?
CartLane uses conditional asset loading and a lightweight storefront runtime, but no plugin can guarantee identical performance on every site. Measure your store before and after activation using the same pages, cache state, device profile, and hosting environment.
Does CartLane require jQuery on the storefront?
CartLane’s own storefront runtime uses Vanilla JavaScript and does not add a CartLane jQuery dependency. WooCommerce, your theme, or other extensions may still load jQuery independently.
Where is CartLane analytics data stored?
CartLane Free stores its workflow and analytics records in your WordPress database. It does not require a separate external analytics account for its built-in reports.
Does CartLane send store analytics to an external service?
The free plugin’s built-in analytics are processed locally. External services may still receive data when you use email delivery, payment, hosting, security, CDN, or other integrations configured on your site.
What happens when I deactivate or uninstall CartLane?
Deactivation stops CartLane runtime features but does not perform the same cleanup as uninstalling. Uninstall behavior follows the plugin’s data-retention configuration and cleanup routines. Create a database backup before removing production data.
Can I translate CartLane?
Yes. CartLane is localization-ready and uses the cartlane text domain. You can contribute translations through WordPress.org or use a compatible translation workflow.
Does CartLane work with every theme and checkout plugin?
CartLane follows WooCommerce hooks and APIs, but heavily customized themes, checkout replacements, optimization plugins, and payment extensions can change expected markup or request flow. Test compatibility on staging and report reproducible conflicts through the support forum.
Do I need CartLane Pro to use the free features?
No. CartLane Free works independently. CartLane Pro is an optional add-on that requires the free plugin and unlocks additional modules.
Where can I get support and documentation?
Use the WordPress.org support forum for the free plugin. Setup guides and documentation are available on the CartLane documentation site .
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