The Mini Cart for WooCommerce plugin adds a stylish floating or slide-out cart to your store, allowing customers to view, update, and manage their cart instantly without page reloads. It’s fully compatible with WooCommerce Payments and all major Currency Switcher plugins, including WooCommerce Currency Switcher, ensuring smooth checkout experiences in multiple currencies. Prices shown in the mini cart automatically adjust based on the selected currency, and the correct amount is passed to WooCommerce Payments during checkout. This seamless integration enhances user experience, boosts conversions, and supports international customers with real-time currency display and accurate payment handling. Lightweight, responsive, and easy to configure, the Mini Cart works perfectly with standard WooCommerce workflows, providing a faster, modern shopping experience across all devices and payment methods.
Boost Your WooCommerce Store: Mini Cart + Payments + Multi-Currency Support
If you run a WooCommerce store and want to make your checkout and cart experience frictionless for both local and international customers, then our Mini Cart for WooCommerce plugin is the perfect add-on. Not only does it deliver a sleek, in-page mini cart / side cart experience — but it also plays nicely with major checkout payment systems WooCommerce Paymentsand multi-currency switcher plugins, giving you the global flexibility your store needs.
Here’s how it all works together — and why this combination gives your store a powerful edge.
Seamless Cart + Checkout Flow
At its core, Mini Cart for WooCommerce provides:
A stylish floating cart icon (menu/footer) that opens a slide-out mini cart. sharabindu.com
Instant AJAX add-to-cart behaviour: no full page refresh on “Add to Cart”. sharabindu.com
In-cart features like shipping cost estimate, coupon code, recommended cross-sells, update quantity, undo remove, stock notifications. sharabindu.com
Lightweight and designed not to slow your store down. (As seen in user testimonials) sharabindu.com
By deploying this kind of smooth cart interaction, you reduce friction in the shopping experience, which generally helps increase conversion rates (especially on mobile). Because the plugin sits on the front-end and integrates with your standard WooCommerce workflow, it works naturally in your store context.
Full Support for WooCommerce Payments
The official WooCommerce Payments plugin (available on the WordPress.org repository) supports WooCommerce 7.6+ and WordPress 6.0+ (and PHP 7.3+). WordPress.org While the documentation doesn’t list every third-party cart plugin, the good news is: WooCommerce Payments is designed to work with most other WooCommerce extensions. WooCommerce
In practice this means:
You can use Mini Cart for WooCommerce to manage how items are added, updated, and displayed in the cart.
At checkout, WooCommerce Payments will handle the payment gateway logic — and because you’re still operating within the standard WooCommerce ecosystem, the mini-cart flows smoothly into the regular cart/checkout process.
You do not need to disable or replace WooCommerce Payments just because you’re using a mini-cart plugin. The two can co-exist.
Tip for store owners: After installing both plugins, run end-to-end tests: Add items via the mini-cart, view checkout, confirm payment via WooCommerce Payments, check that order status, currency, and payment records are all correct. If you use a non-default currency (see next section), verify amounts and currency codes correctly pass through to payment.
Full Support for Multi-Currency via Currency Switcher
For stores selling globally, supporting multiple currencies can make a big difference in user experience and conversion. That’s where Currency Switcher for WooCommerce (and other multi-currency plugins) step in.
The official plugin page shows support for multi-currency shopping: allowing customers to select a currency, showing live exchange rates, and accepting payment in that selected currency.
Expert guides reinforce the fact that multi-currency plugins are compatible with major payment gateways including WooCommerce Payments.
What this means when used together with Mini Cart for WooCommerce:
The mini-cart interface reflects the currently selected currency (via the currency switcher) — so prices shown in mini-cart match the currency the customer has chosen.
At checkout, currency is correctly conveyed into the payment gateway (via WooCommerce Payments) so that the amount matches what the customer expects.
Your international customers see prices in their local (or preferred) currency, and the cart/checkout UX remains consistent and sleek.
Tip for store owners: Ensure the currency switcher is configured to work on cart and checkout pages, and that your payment gateway (WooCommerce Payments) supports each currency you enable. Also test the mini-cart + currency switcher scenario: change currency, load cart, check that totals in the mini-cart reflect the new currency and that the payment step uses the correct currency.
