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Cart & Checkout Settings ​

The Cart & Checkout settings are fundamental to shaping your customer's journey, from the moment they add a product to their cart to the final confirmation of their purchase. Optimizing these options is key to reducing friction, increasing conversions, and creating a seamless buying experience.

This section controls the visibility of the cart, how user accounts are created, and the format of your official receipts.

Accessing Cart & Checkout Settings ​

  1. From your WordPress dashboard, navigate to FluentCart Pro > Settings.
  2. Click on the Store Settings tab.
  3. From the sub-menu, select Cart & Checkout.

Cart Icon in Body ​

Enable this to display a floating cart icon that remains visible on the side of the screen as the user scrolls. This provides a convenient, one-click path for customers to return to their cart from anywhere on your site.

User Account Creation Mode ​

This is a crucial setting that defines how customer accounts are handled during checkout. Choosing the right option has a big impact on the user experience.

  • Create User Account Automatically after payment: An account is automatically and seamlessly created for every customer after they complete their purchase. This is the recommended setting for stores selling subscriptions or licensed products, as it ensures customers have an account to manage their purchases without any extra steps.
  • Give checkbox to create account on checkout page: This adds an "Create an account?" checkbox to the checkout page. It gives customers the choice, balancing the benefits of account creation with the convenience of a faster checkout.
  • No need to create account for onetime purchases: This enables a full "guest checkout" experience for non-subscription products. It offers the lowest possible friction for new or one-time buyers and can significantly reduce cart abandonment.

Hide coupon field on checkout ​

Enable this option to remove the coupon code input field from the checkout page. This can be a strategic move to prevent customers from leaving your site to search for discount codes, a common cause of cart abandonment.

Receipt Settings ​

This section allows you to customize the numbering format for your store's official receipts, which helps with branding and organization.

  • Minimum Receipt Number: Set the starting number for your receipts. Many businesses set this to a higher number (e.g., 1001) to appear more established than a store starting at receipt #1.
  • Next Receipt Number: This is a non-editable field that conveniently shows you the number that will be assigned to the very next receipt generated by your store.
  • Receipt Prefix: Enter a custom prefix that will be added before every receipt number (e.g., INV-, FC-). This is excellent for branding and makes your receipts instantly recognizable (e.g., YOURBRAND-1001).

Saved Payment Methods ​

At the bottom of the section you will find the Saved Payment Methods switch, which lets logged-in customers keep a card or PayPal account on file for faster checkout next time.

Payment details are never stored by your store or in your database. Your payment provider keeps them and returns a token, which is charged only for an order the customer places or a subscription they already signed up for. Customers can remove a saved method at any time.

Turning the switch on adds three things to your storefront:

  • A Save this card for faster checkout next time checkbox on the checkout page, unticked by default so customers opt in deliberately. It appears for both Stripe and PayPal.
  • A Your saved payment methods list at checkout, with the customer's default method preselected.
  • A Payment Methods page in the customer dashboard, where customers manage the cards and PayPal accounts they have saved.

The switch is off until you turn it on, so nothing is saved until you decide to offer it. Saved payment methods currently work with Stripe and PayPal. Other gateways continue to work normally at checkout, they simply cannot save a payment method for reuse yet.

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Saving a PayPal account also requires your PayPal business account to be approved for vaulting by PayPal. See PayPal Settings for details.

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Saved Payment Methods is a FluentCart Pro feature. For what your customers see once it is enabled, see Payment Methods.

After you have configured these settings to your liking, click the Save button to apply the changes to your store.