Best FREE abandoned cart WooCommerce plugin
According to experts, the average cart abandonment rate is around 70% to 75%. The reason for cart abandonment is different for each industry. If you want a rock-solid WooCommerce cart abandonment plugin that ticks all boxes in your cart abandonment strategy, the Abandoned Cart Lite for WooCommerce is the one for you.
The FREE Abandoned Cart Lite for WooCommerce is bundled with all the essential features you need for abandoned cart recovery.
This plugin works as described: the lite version doesn’t cut down in functionality. You can have your orders recovered and save on sales. Depending on what you are selling, this can be a few orders to justify ordering the full package – I’m only a few away!
Very recommended!
– jaysnl
The FREE WooCommerce abandoned cart plugin gives you the essential options to recover the customers. But if you want more powerful Abandoned cart plugin options for WooCommerce cart abandonment recovery, the Abandoned Cart Pro for WooCommerce will be the best option for you.
The Abandoned Cart Pro for WooCommerce gives 25+ features to have a better insight on cart abandonment and options to bring in the customers.
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Take a look at our complete Abandoned cart Lite Vs Abandoned Cart Pro comparison to get a clear idea of which version best suits your needs. The pro version of the Abandoned cart WooCommerce plugin is equipped with all cart abandonment solutions to make it a perfect plugin that you all need
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Our plugin captures visitor emails in real-time as they’re typing it in to the email address field on the checkout page, so you don’t need to worry about them changing their mind at the last second.
When logged-in user add the product to the cart we capture the email address from the user’s profile.
Yes, it captures the carts of the guest users from the checkout page. We capture the guest user’s abandoned cart only after the customer enters the “Email Address” on the checkout page.
Also, plugin does capture the cart from the cart page, these carts do not have any personal information of the customers. It will contain only the cart details. To capture, this information guest customer should reach the cart page of the website.
Please ensure you have at least one Email template “Active”. As only active email templates are sent to recover the abandoned carts.
For sending the abandoned cart notification emails automatically, we use WP-Cron. If you have Email templates activated and still notification are not sent, then you can debug the issue by following this post.
When the products in the cart is not purchased within the set ‘Cart abandoned cut-off time’ then the cart is considered as an abandoned cart.
The admin can use the merge code `{{cart.unsubscribe}}’ in the email templates. It will be replaced with a url in the abandoned cart email notification sent to the customer. When clicked, the reminder email notification for the particular email will be unsubscribed.
Enhancement – Corrected the way recovered orders were tracked. Replaced the hooks tracking orders.
Bug – Newly created Email Templates will be inactive by default.
Bug – When an email template is activated, the emails will not be sent to older abandoned carts.
Bug – Fixed an issue where Recovered Order note was getting added to all the Orders.
Bug – Fixed an issue where notices were getting displayed in abandoned details page if the product was deleted.
Tweak – Updated the pot file with some new strings added. Also corrected the display of a few strings.
This is a security release with the following fixes:
Added sanitization checks for checkout field capture for guest users.
Fixed an issue where the emails were getting sent to customers even after purchasing the products.
Removed inline Javascript from checkout page and added to a minified file.
Tweak – Compatibility with WordPress 5.0 fixes.
Bug – Fixed a warning which was generated when clicked on Cart or Checkout link in email.
Bug – Fixed errors occuring when WooCommerce Admin scripts were included in the plugin.
This version has 5 Enhancements and 5 bugs fixes along with 1 Tweak.
Enhancement – Removed the reliability on PHP sessions. The plugin no longer uses PHP sessions from this release.
Enhancement – Modified the plugin to no longer display carts with the status ‘Abandoned but new Cart created’. Since, these carts are not sent any reminder emails, it made most sense to stop displaying them as well.
Enhancement – Added new default email template that use the responsive email designs added in the plugin version.
Enhancement – We have removed a few unwanted queries & optimised the code which was executed every 2-3 minutes. This will improve the site performance.
Enhancement – We have added Product page URL on the Product Name under Abandoned Orders View page.
Tweak – Changed the subject lines and Header text for the default email templates.
Bug Fix – When the site language is Hebrew, the site admin is unable to activate email templates. The same has now been fixed.
Bug Fix – Email Templates were not getting saved as “utf8mb4_unicode_ci” collation was not allowing to create table of the email template in the database due to some site restriction. This issue has been fixed.
Bug Fix – The plugin now runs the process to send reminder emails in the background. This will help fix the issue where the site performance is affected due to the plugin.
Bug Fix – In case, if wp-content folder is separated from WP core folders then the plugin could not find “wp-load.php” correctly and abandoned cart reminder emails were not being sent. This issue is fixed now.
Bug Fix – Some error messages are fixed in this plugin version.
Bug Fix – The website was crashing as the folder name for the plugin was not changed. This is fixed now.
This version has 1 new feature and 9 bugs fixes along with 4 Tweaks.
New feature – From this version, we have added “Automatically Delete Abandoned Orders after X days” setting. The same setting will delete all the Abandoned carts automatically after number of days which will set in the setting.
Bug Fixed – . When WordPress exports data for an email address and if there are no abandoned cart records for the said address, the export was failing. Fixed the same.
Bug Fixed – In WooCommerce > Settings > Email menu, if the footer will have “{site_title}” merge tag then our plugin will show the title of website at the end of test email and abandoned cart reminder email.
Bug Fixed – For Multisite, we were getting error message in the debug log file once we abandoned a cart. This issue has been fixed now.
Bug Fixed – Under the Recovered Orders tab, duplicate records were showing for the recovered orders. This issue is fixed.
Bug Fixed – When abandoned cart will have a variable product which has 3 attributes or more then the slug name of selected variations were showing in the abandoned cart reminder emails and on the abandoned cart details page. This has been fixed.
Bug Fixed – With the Fresh Install of the plugin, some columns of abandoned cart history table were not created. This issue is fixed.
Bug Fixed – With version 5.0 onwards, if the guest will use the same email address which was already used for abandoning the cart then the existing record will be updated and new record will added in the Abandoned Orders tab. This was not the case with older versions.
Bug Fixed – The pagination on the Email Templates tab was not working. It has been fixed.
Bug Fixed – Some error notices of debug log file are fixed.
Tweak – We have updated .pot and .po & .mo files in our plugin. So all the strings from Abandoned Cart Pro for WooCommerce plugin can be translated to any language you want to.
Tweak – We have added .po and .mo files of Hungarian language in plugin’s folder. So, if the Site language will be Hungarian language then translated strings of our plugin will be displayed into Hungarian language.
Tweak – Added Help tip below of Email Body section while editing or creating an email template.
Tweak – “Unsubscribed” status added to Abandoned Orders page and will be displayed for Unsubscribed carts.
The plugin is now GDPR compliant.
New feature – Added two settings to show the message on the checkout page for guest users and the message to be displayed at the start of the shop page for Registered users.
New feature – Abandoned Cart details will now be exported to the User’s Personal Data from the Tools -> Export Personal Data menu and it can be erased from Tools -> Erase Personal Data.
Bug Fixed – Some notices are fixed of the debug.log file.
This is a minor update to the plugin which contains some bug fixes and requires Database update to include emojis in the email templates. We recommend that you take a backup of the database of your store for your piece of mind.
Bug Fixed – Fixed compatibility issues related to PHP 7.2 where error notices were being displayed on Abandoned Order List page.
Bug Fixed – Fixed issue related to saving email template where changes were not getting saved despite a success message.
Additonal Changes – PHP Doc blocks added for generating documentation and readability.
This version has 2 bug fixes.
Bug Fixed – Due to the introduction of language packs through translate.wordpress.org, our plugin was not prepared for localization. So, we changed textdomain from “woocommerce-ac” to “woocommerce-abandoned-cart”.
This version has 7 bugs fixes.
Bug Fixed – When the guest user places the order after the “Cart abandoned cut off time” then the plugin was capturing the blank records on Abandoned Orders tab. This has been fixed.
Bug Fixed – Compatibility issues pertaining to PHP 7.2 has been fixed.
Bug Fixed – Fixed some minor bugs related to notices coming in Debug Log.
Bug Fixed – Fixed issue related to error occurring when clicked on cart link from abandoned cart reminder email.
Bug Fixed – When the user places an order and goes to the order received page, blank carts were added in the database. So, twice entries had been created under Recovered Orders tab. This issue has been fixed.
Bug Fixed – If “Email admin On Order Recovery” setting is enabled and admin of the store create manual order from WooCommerce -> Orders page then Recovery Email was getting sent to the Admin. This has been fixed.
Bug Fixed – With the PHP 7.1.7, Abandoned cart reminder emails were not being sent. This issue has been fixed now.
This version has 1 bug fix.
Bug Fixed – Made some performance optimizations so the plugin occupies less CPU resources. We will continue working on this so the resource usage stays low.
This version has 3 bugs fixes along with 1 Enhancement.
Bug Fixed – If the guest user’s id is wrong then the abandoned cart email will not be sent to the customers.
Bug Fixed – If the variable products have a special character was not displaying the correct attributes. This has been fixed.
Bug Fixed – Some error notices of debug log file are fixed.
Enhancement – Now, admin can activate the email templates using toggle button from the Email Templates page.
This version has 1 bug fix along with 3 Enhancements.
Bug Fixed – When abandoned cart will have a variable product which has 3 attributes or more than that. Then the slug name of selected variations were showing in the abandoned cart reminder emails and on the abandoned cart details page. This has been fixed.
Enhancement – If the abandoned cart total is zero then abandoned cart reminder emails will not be sent to the customers.
Enhancement – When the email sending script is executed on the server, it was running a large number of MySQL queries for guest users. That was causing an increase in the server load. In this version, we have optimised the queries. Initially, it used to query even those guest user records for which emails were already sent. Now, it will only query those records where email is yet to be sent.
Enhancement – Removed the Active field from the add / edit email template page. Admin can activate or deactivate the templates from the Email templates page.
This version has 1 bug fix.
Bug Fixed – When WooCommerce is deactivated and “Allow” button is clicked from the user tracking data notice. It was redirecting to a blank page. Now, if WooCommerce is deactivated then Abandoned cart lite plugin will be automatically deactivated & display the notice.
This version has 1 bug fix.
Bug Fixed – Some warning was displayed in the Debug log file. This has been fixed.
This version has 1 bug fix.
Bug Fixed – Logged-in user’s carts were not captured with the WooCommerce version 3.1. This issue has been fixed.
This version has 3 bugs fixes.
Bug Fixed – When store admin clicks on the dismissible notice, the notice was not getting dismissed. This issue has been fixed.
Bug Fixed – The dismissible notice was not displaying the ‘Allow’ & ‘No Thanks’ button properly. This issue has been fixed.
Bug Fixed – The total Recovered amount was not tracked. This issue has been fixed.
This version has 1 new feature.
New Feature – A new dismissible notice is added in the WordPress admin, which provides an option to allow usage tracking of the non-sensitive data of our plugin from the website. Find out more.
This version has 1 bug fix and 2 enhancements.
Bug Fixed – Earlier Abandoned Cart date and time format were not translated into the WordPress selected language in the plugin. This issue has been fixed.
Enhancement – From this version, the admin can insert the WordPress supported emoji’s in the abandoned cart email templates as well as in the subject.
Enhancement – Earlier we had hardcoded date and time format in our plugin. Now, the plugin will use selected WordPress date and time format.
This version has 1 bug fix.
Bug Fixed – If guest customer places an order by selecting “Create an account” checkbox or enters the password in “Account password” field on the checkout page, then an abandoned cart was created after “Cart abandoned cut off time” is reached. Also, abandoned cart reminder email were sent to the customers after the order was placed. Now onwards, orders placed by guest users by registering while placing order will not be captured.
This version has 1 bug fix.
Bug Fixed – Warnings were displayed on the Order Received page with WooCommerce version 3.0.0. This is fixed now.
This version has 1 new feature and 3 enhancements.
New Feature – New setting named as “Enable tracking carts when customer doesn’t enter details” on the settings page. When this setting is enabled it will enable tracking of abandoned products & carts even if the customer does not visit the checkout page or does not enter any details on the checkout page like Name or Email. Tracking will begin as soon as a visitor adds a product to their cart and visits the cart page.
Enhancement – The default settings value for “Cart abandoned cut-off time” for logged-in users has been modified to 10 minutes.
Enhancement – The Settings tab of the plugin has been redesigned. Now, the plugin will display 2 sub-tabs for different settings. The sub-tabs are named as “General Settings” & “Email Sending Settings”. The settings of add/edit email template “Send From This Name”, “Send From This Email Address” & “Send Reply Emails to” has been moved to the Settings -> Email Sending Setting tab.
Enhancement – In this version we have introduced three new views of abandoned orders in the Abandoned Orders tab. The views named are “All”, “Registered Users”, “Guest Users” & “Carts without Customer Details”. The “Registered Users” view will display only the logged-in user’s abandoned carts. The “Guest Users” view will display the guest user’s carts & “Carts without Customer Details” view will …