AutoraLab Cart Share: Share Cart Links for WooCommerce

Cart Share is a free WooCommerce plugin by Autora Lab that lets shoppers send their cart to someone else.

One person fills the cart, another pays. The shopper taps Share cart and sends a link. Whoever opens it gets the same products, quantities and coupons, and lands at checkout. There is nothing to set up: the button is on your cart page as soon as you activate the plugin.

What you get

• A Share cart button on your cart page, on the Cart block and the classic cart.
• Sharing by WhatsApp, email, SMS, Telegram, Facebook or a copied link. On phones, the phone’s own share menu.
• Links that open at checkout with the same items, chosen options and coupons.
• A Link Generator, so you can build a cart for a customer and send it yourself.
• A note on every order that came from a shared cart, with the app it was shared in.

How it works

1. The shopper taps Share cart on the cart page.
2. They copy the link or send it in WhatsApp, email, a text message or any other app.
3. Whoever opens the link gets the same cart and lands at checkout. A notice tells them how many items were added.

Why stores add it

• Gift lists. A shopper sends the exact gift they want, in the right size, to the person buying it.
• Team and office orders. One person picks the items and the manager pays.
• Selling over chat. You build the cart in the Link Generator and send it in the chat you already use.
• Sale days. Shoppers make their lists before Black Friday and pass them on. A shared cart turns a list into an order.

The details

• The button takes your theme’s style. On the Cart block it is an outline, so Proceed to Checkout stays the main button.
• You choose the button label and the message sent with the link.
• X (Twitter), LinkedIn, Threads, Pinterest, Reddit, Viber and Snapchat are there too. Turn them on in the settings.
• The recipient’s own cart is saved when they open a link. One click brings those items back.
• A sold-out item or an expired coupon is named in a notice, not dropped without a word.
• The Link Generator takes products, quantities, coupons and a campaign name. Copy the link, open it, or send it by WhatsApp or email.
• Every link carries utm_source=cart-share, so WooCommerce’s order attribution and tools like Google Analytics show where the order came from.
• On WooCommerce 10 and newer, most links are WooCommerce’s own checkout links. They keep working even if you remove Cart Share.
• No database tables and no requests to outside services. Scripts load on the cart page only.
• Translation ready, accessible (WCAG 2.1 AA), and works with High-Performance Order Storage (HPOS).

What it doesn’t do

• Extra product options from other plugins (add-ons, bundles, custom fields) don’t travel in the link.
• A link doesn’t fix prices. Whoever opens it pays the store’s price on that day.
• The button is on the cart page only, not on product pages or in the mini-cart.

Privacy

Cart Share adds a private note to orders placed from a shared link, naming the app and the campaign. It stores nothing personal. The shopper’s WooCommerce session keeps the app and campaign of the link they opened, and their earlier cart, until the session ends. The plugin makes no requests to outside services and adds no database tables.

Requirements

• WordPress 6.0 or newer
• WooCommerce 8.0 or newer (WooCommerce 10 or newer for WooCommerce’s own checkout links)
• PHP 7.4 or newer

Documentation

Setup, every setting and the developer filters are in the Cart Share docs on autoralab.net.

Pay the people behind your products

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