Caddy – Smart Side Cart for WooCommerce

A high performance, conversion-boosting side cart for your WooCommerce store that improves your store’s shopping…

Author:	Tribe Interactive (profile at wordpress.org)
WordPress version required:	5.0
WordPress version tested:	6.4.3
Plugin version:	2.0
Added to WordPress repository:	12-06-2020
Last updated:	05-02-2024
Rating, %:	86
Rated by:	12
Plugin URI:	https://usecaddy.com
Total downloads:	40 781
Active installs:	3 000+
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Caddy is a high performance, conversion-boosting side cart for your WooCommerce store that improves your store’s shopping experience & helps grow your sales.

Increase average order sizes with Caddy’s built-in product recommendations, reduce cart abandonment with a free shipping meter, and encourage repeat shoppers with a saved product list.

⚡️ Optimized for performance
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⚔️ Cross-browser and cross-OS battle tested

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Features included free:

Add an (ajax powered) sticky side cart across your whole site
Let customers add products & manage their cart items without reloading the page
Let customers manage cart quantities in the side cart
Let customers remove items from the side cart
Show a sticky floating cart button with a cart quantity indicator
Let customers add coupons in the side cart
Show a free shipping meter in the side cart that lets customers know when they qualify for free shipping
Show product up-sell recommendations when customers add products to their cart
Let customers save products for later
Add cart and saved list links to your navigation menu (short codes + widgets)
Add save for later buttons on product pages
Add custom CSS to set your own styles and match your brand
WooCommerce HPOS support

Compatibility

Caddy is compatible with most themes and plugins. The following themes and plugins have been tested and confirmed working:

Plugins: WooCommerce Subscriptions, WooCommerce Product Bundles, WooCommerce All Products For Subscriptions, Elementor, Divi
Themes: GeneratePress, Flatsome, Astra, Hello Elementor, Kadence, OceanWP, Storefront

Upgrade to Premium

Upgrade to premium and unlock more powerful add-ons, customization and styling features.

Premium features:

7 different cart icon styles
15+ custom color options
Change the cart bubble position on the screen
Display notices when adding to cart or adding/removing saved products
Promote custom coupon offers in the cart
Set free shipping meter exclusions
Set product recommendation exclusions
Set product recommendation fall-back rules
Show save for later buttons on shop archives
Manage placement of save for later buttons on shop archives
Customize a welcome message to new users
Hide Caddy on specific pages
Hide out of stock products from product recommendations
Get priority email support
Get early access to new features

Get premium: https://www.usecaddy.com/

Premium Add-ons:

Announcements Bar Add-On – Display an announcement text bar at the top of the cart.

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ChangeLog

2.0

Compatibility: Remove Caddy from loading on DIVI editor screen
Improvement: Major front-end cart UI design update
Improvement: Re-arranged cart item contents
Improvement: Replaced emojis in favor of simpler SVGs
Improvement: Increased Caddy window width on desktop
Improvement: Moved item count in bubble to the left
Improvement: Added animation to FSM bar
Improvement: FSM bar now fixed at the top of the cart screen
Improvement: Cart recommendations moved below cart items
Improvement: Cart item window now shows scrollbars when scrolling
Improvement: Support for bundled products
Feature: Set minus button on single qty item to remove item from the cart
Feature: Add option to include tax with the free shipping meter calculation
Feature: Add cart & save menu widget options
Fix: Depreciated PHP < 8.0 code

1.9.8

Compatibility: Tested up to latest WooCommerce 8.4.0 and WordPress 6.4.2 versions
Compatibility: Added WooCommerce HPOS support
Improvement: Removed IBM webfont
Security: Added nonce to admin settings form

1.9.7

Fix: Add-to-cart JS event not working for some products

1.9.6

Fix: Address the same reference to the shipping meter text
Improvement: Add-to-cart JS event changes
Improvement: AJAX object handle name changes for caddy-public JS file
Improvement: Cart subtotal calculation changes

1.9.5

Fix: trash button is not working for some customers
Improvement: Tested upto latest WooCommerce 6.9.4 and WordPress 6.0.2 versions

1.9.4

Improvement: window.load event changes
Improvement: Tested upto latest WooCommerce 6.8.2 and WordPress 6.0.2 versions
Improvement: Updating the sidebar boxes and links in admin-area

1.9.3

Fix: Call to a member function is_empty() on null
Fix: Cart object condition check on the cart screen
Improvement: Free shipping total calculation is round-up
Improvement: Convert all the integer value to float for better calculations

1.9.2

Fix: Call to a member function get_cart_contents_count() on null
Fix: Minor fix for undefined variable that may have impacted subscription products
Improvement: Replace cc_update_window_data AJAX action with get_refreshed_fragments
Improvement: Tag added for free shipping country

1.9.1

Fix: Added dynamic version number to public JS
Improvement: WC 6.5.1 and WP 6.0 compatibility added

1.9

Fix: Removed “Save for later” tab when “save for later” options (in premium version) is disabled
Fix: Removed unused cc-fontawesome CSS
Fix: Removed premium plugin save for later ajax action
Improvement: Optimized add-to-cart process using WC Rest API
Improvement: Performance improvement by minifying JS and CSS
Improvement: Get refreshed fragments on-page load using JS
Improvement: Using get_option instead of get_transient to check if premium license is active or not
Improvement: Temporarily disable cart contents for any action within Caddy cart to show its loading
Feature: Added affiliate ID field & affiliate link to Caddy branding
Feature: Add affiliate ID field & affiliate link to Caddy branding

1.8.2

Improvement: Performance improvement for all the major actions within plugin

1.8.1

Improvement: Update save for later product listing code

1.8

Improvement: caddy-public-fonts.css added as a separate file
Fix: Redirect external product to the URL
Improvement: Update Caddy cart screen qty field based on the product “Sold individually” settings
Fix: cc_cart_icon & cart_text undefined error for the widgets
Improvement: Premium version license activation check function added
Improvement: Add support for “Display on the Checkout page” premium version option
Fix: Excluding draft products to appear on the product recommendation
Improvement: UK country code added in the free shipping meter
Improvement: Hooks added before and after caddy cart items

1.7.9

Improvement: Cart sub-total calculations (support decimal value)
Improvement: Caddy global admin and public object created to override hooks
Fix: Wrapper css changes for some themes

1.7.8

Fix: Mobile cart open issue (sometime) when product added

1.7.7

Fix: DIVI theme builder compatibility issue
Improvement: Display Caddy cart item meta info below product name
Improvement: Free shipping meter price changes
Improvement: Translation file updated

1.7.6

Fix: WP Rocket caching issue
Improvement: Hide catalog visibility hidden products from recommendations
Improvement: Adding transition to compass count
Improvement: Remove subtotal section
Improvement: Change “Estimated total” to “Subtotal” and calculations (exclude shipping and taxes)

1.7.5

Fix: YITH gift card plugin compatibility
Improvement: Remove added class after deleting item from the cart
Improvement: Free shipping meter calculations updated
Improvement: Subtotal and estimated total changes
Fix: WordPress jQuery (default) load issue
Improvement: Changing Caddy logo
Improvement: Fixing colors to match new Caddy brand
Improvement: Caddy widget condition changes
Improvement: Display subtotal under the coupon code box

1.7.4

Improvement: New hook added for Caddy nav menu
Improvement: POT file updated

1.7.3

Improvement: Product price in cart screen updated
Improvement: Caddy premium license condition updated

1.7.2

Fix: Save for later button condition changes

1.7.1

Fix: Fixing bubble close button
POT file updated for translation
Fix: Free shipping meter bug

1.7

Improvement: General performance optimizations
Improvement: Shipping meter CSS animation added
Improvement: Caddy admin settings layout changes
Improvement: Display product recommendations directly inside the cart screen
Improvement: Front-end UI improvements
Fix: Display an error message while trying to add an out-of-stock product
Fix: product links
Fix: CSS changes to support larger screens
Fix: Product recommendations layout when adding product to saved list
Fix: Mobile styles
Fix: Free shipping meter condition updated
Compatibility: Caddy support added for Elementor editor
Compatibility: Twenty Twenty-One theme compatibility added
Compatibility: Premium latest version support added with different notices
Compatibility: Flatsome theme support added
Compatibility: Multi-site support updated

1.6

General bug fixes
Add-on page changes
Before and after cart screen hooks added
Caddy Announcement add-on section added to the add-ons page
Prevent out of stock products from being added to cart
Free shipping meter condition updated when a coupon code is removed
Added support for the “WooCommerce Blocks” plugin

1.5

Bug fixes
Crate cart and saved items widgets
Updated add-on page layout
Cart confirmation screen refresh rate updated

1.4

Bug fixes
Updated plugin using hooks

1.3

Calculations were fixed for the discount amount

1.2

Bug fixes
Code clean-up and optimization
Adding support for the latest versions of WordPress and WooCommerce

1.1

Fixed issue with pot language file
Added missing language strings
Code cleanup

1.0

Initial release

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