So, you are almost done creating your brand-new WooCommerce website. Finished constructing the main marketplace product layout, the product category menu, header, and footer with navigational cues.

One key component still remains, unfinished. The most important aspect of any e-commerce website is the ability to redirect customers’ selected products to their carts. From anywhere on the website, all the way to the checkout page.

This may sound like a difficult function to integrate into WordPress eCommerce websites, but in actuality, it is not.

WordPress has a large community backing its development, and you can add this function to your website by using a WooCommerce shopping cart plugin. That can work seamlessly with any WordPress WooCommerce theme.

How Does WordPress Shopping Cart Work?

When products are added to the cart in WooCommerce, they are added to a separate list with the variant and quantity chosen by the customer.

This helps users keep track of their selected products, and this function also has them automatically see the calculated total price of the order they will be proceeding to upon checkout.

And it also provides users the ability to edit WooCommerce shopping cart page.

The Benefits of a Shopping Cart in WooCommerce

There are some great benefits to using a shopping cart in a WooCommerce shopping platform:

• Designed to assist customers in selecting one or more products to purchase and continuing to browse other products.
• It helps calculate the total value of products as you continue to add them to the cart. 
• Displays the quantity and variations of a product that you have selected and calculates the total value accordingly. 
• It can redirect customers to the checkout page with a click of a button. 
• It can come with additional WooCommerce shopping cart features such as order history, saving a cart for later, etc. 
• Users can get a WooCommerce cart plugin that comes with stunning cart design elements. 

How to add a shopping cart to WooCommerce

Now, let’s go through the process of adding a shopping cart to WooCommerce. At the end of this article, you will be able to begin selling a wide variety of products. With a functional E-commerce platform that features the best shopping cart plugin for WordPress. 

Step 1: Pre-Requirements Installation 

To get started with cart creation and the WooCommerce cart settings process, you’ll need to have certain plugin items installed and activated on your WordPress account.

For this, you’ll need to have the latest versions of WordPress, WooCommerce, Elementor page builder, and the ShopReady WooCommerce Shop Builder plugin. 

To install the plugins, log into your WordPress account, head over to the WordPress Dashboard > Plugins > Add New and search for the plugins one by one, then click on Install. 

And now click on Activate when the installation process finishes. Follow the same procedure to install all the required plugins and programs. 

Step 2: Using a WooCommerce Shopping Cart Theme

Now to further our cart function-building process, you’ll need to have a working WooCommerce theme installed for some added functionality.

In this case, we can use a preset WooCommerce WordPress theme included with the ShopReady plugin.

This will greatly reduce the time it takes for customization and website publication. 

To install a working eCommerce template on your website, start by creating a new page and give it a title from the WordPress Dashboard > Pages > Add New and click on Edit with Elementor. 

You’ll be redirected to the Elementor Editor screen. Here you’ll find the ShopReady – Elementor template library icon. Click on the icon to get access to the template library.

Pick and choose any template that fits your brand identity and click Insert to apply the template. 

Wait until the template finishes its import process. 

Should look something like this. 

Your product section may look empty if you haven’t added products to WooCommerce. You should add the products you’re trying to showcase on your WooCommerce platform right away.

To do so, you can follow our previous guide on – How to Add Products to a WooCommerce Store.

Each WooCommerce product can be customized with the product title, description, pricing, discounted pricing, images, metadata, variations, etc. from the WooCommerce product dashboard. 

Step 3: Using Elementor Widgets to Customize the Product Page

Adding a Product Title 

Since you have already established a primary section structure using Elementor for your WooCommerce product page, you can now add a product titles.

Use the drag-and-drop approach to add the Product Title widget where you want it on the product page in order to achieve this goal.

Display the right product title by going to the Elementor navigation bar, selecting the Content tab, and the Editor Refresh. To select the appropriate product, click on its name in the drop-down menu that is located under Demo Product.

And that’s about it, you have your product title displayed on your product page.

Adding a Featured Image to the Product Page

Following that, you’ll want to ensure that your product has both an image gallery and a featured image.

For this you can use any one of the various image widgets that are included in the all-in-one plugin for eCommerce that comes packaged with Elementor.

For adding our product feature image we’ll be using the ShopReady Thumbnail with Zoom widget. Which, as its name suggests, has a zoom upon mouse hover feature.

The correct product image can be selected by searching for the appropriate product title by from the Content tab of the Demo Product option.

Adding Product Pricing with Widgets

The product pricing block is another essential component that should be present on your eCommerce product page. To add your product pricing, first make sure that the correct product pricing has been saved on WooCommerce product page.

Now head back to the Elementor editor screen, and search for the ShopReady Pricing widget. You can drop this widget below your product short description to apply the correct pricing.

To do so, just simply search for the correct product title, and choose the product title from the drop-down menu in the Content tab’s Demo Product option.

Adding Product Description 

Using this WooCommerce product add-ons Product Description widget, you not only have the option to add product descriptions, but you also have an highly customized the description.

Through the use of the style tab, you will have the ability to alter how the product description will be displayed to the general public.

Adding Add to Cart Functionality

The ability for customers to add additional items to their carts before moving on to the checkout page is facilitated by the “Add to Cart” option. Which is another feature that is extremely crucial to have.

Utilizing the ShopReady Add to Cart widget will allow you to equip the page of your eCommerce store with a powerful version of the Add to Cart function.

The widget lets you adjust the amount of a product they have in their cart directly from the Add to Cart button.

You can also modify the appearance of the Elementor add-to-cart button through the Elementor Style tab.

From here, you can change the font, color, background, margin, padding, and other attributes.

Adding Metadata to Product Page

Implementing a WooCommerce product filter that makes use of the metadata and product attributes that you’ve added to product page. Is something that you should take serious, since it impacts you customers directly.

Look for the ShopReady Meta widget and place it just below the “add to cart” button on the product page. This will allow you to display product information with the same page.

To select the accurate meta data, follow the same process as show before, and select the correct product title from the Content tab drop down.

Step 4: Adding WooCommerce Related Products 

Utilizing the Related Products widget that is included in the WooCommerce product add-ons will display related products block on your product page. Which is an excellent strategy for boosting online sales.

Using the ShopReady Related Products widget, you can easily construct a gorgeous product slider block that is divided into sections.

To use the widget, just simply drag-n-drop it under the single product block, and then select the specific products that you want to feature on your single product page from the Content tab.

Step 5: Adding WooCommerce Custom Checkout Fields

As mentioned earlier, this is an important aspect of a functioning E-Commerce platform. With a WooCommerce shop builder like ShopReady, you can easily utilize a WooCommerce cart shortcode.

For example,

[woocommerce_cart] – shows the cart page. 

And implement a functional eCommerce cart that way, or you can use a ShopReady widget to apply a functional cart block. 

To have a functioning cart, you’ll first need to add the “Add to Cart” widget on the product page. Which we already did.

So, let’s head back and create the cart page itself, where all the products will be displayed once they have been added to the cart. 

ShopReady – WooCommerce Shop Builder allows users to choose between two different cart templates, which are available to use from the ShopReady Dashboard.

From the ShopReady Dashboard, click on the Templates menu now enable and edit a WooCommerce Preset Cart template provided by ShopReady. 

By creating a new WooCommerce cart template or editing an existing one, you’ll be redirected to the Elementor Editor screen. 

From here, you can simply add the ShopReady Cart widget, and your cart page will take its form automatically. And creating a WordPress shopping cart without a plugin is that simple of a process with ShopReady. It requires no extra plugins or tools. 

If you have products already added to your cart, it should look something like this. 

And there you have it, a functional WooCommerce cart page with a functional cart button. You also have the option of further customizing the cart page with Elementor.

With Elementor, you are free to change every aspect of the cart page, from background colors to Elementor typography settings. 

When you’re done customizing your shop page, make sure to hit Publish / Update to make the changes live for your visitors and customers. 

Conclusion

The whole process of creating a WooCommerce custom add to cart button may seem like a daunting task.

But as you progress through this guide you’ll see that the process of creating this technical function is not hard at all with the right set of tools.

The ShopReady WooCommerce Shop Builder is a complete package that offers all the tools that you need for creating a robust eCommerce platform from the ground up. 

And if you run into any issues with ShopReady or the cart creation process, you can always look up the WooCommerce cart documentation. 

Frequently Asked Questions Regarding WooCommerce Shopping Carts