The Side Cart Pro addon for DigiCommerce allows you to display a convenient sliding cart panel that enhances your customers’ shopping experience. This feature gives shoppers easy access to their cart contents and checkout options without leaving the current page.
Side Cart Configuration Options
DigiCommerce provides several configuration options for the Side Cart feature:
General Settings
- Enable Side Cart: Turn the side cart functionality on or off
- Show total items count: Display the number of items in the cart
- Show total price: Display the total price of items in the cart
- Open side cart after adding item to cart: Automatically slide open the cart when a customer adds a product
Location Options
- Menu Location: Choose a specific navigation menu to display the cart icon
- Shortcode: Use
[digicommerce_sidecart]to place the cart icon anywhere on your site
Cart Icon Selection
Choose from multiple cart icon styles to match your website’s design. The plugin includes 8 different cart icon designs that can be selected from the settings panel.
How to Use Custom Triggers for Side Cart
You can open the side cart using custom links by simply adding the “open-cart” class to any link element. Here are two implementation examples:
For regular products: <a href="/checkout/?id=211" class="open-cart">Normal product</a>
For variable products: <a href="/checkout/?id=190&variation=2" class="open-cart">Variable product</a>
Best Practices
- Place the side cart icon in a prominent location that’s easily accessible across your site
- Consider enabling the automatic open feature to provide immediate feedback when items are added
- Use the shortcode option to place the cart icon in strategic locations like headers or product pages
- Choose a cart icon style that complements your website’s design
The Side Cart Pro addon is designed to improve conversion rates by making the shopping cart easily accessible and reducing checkout friction for your customers.