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Free Plugin by VillaTheme v1.1.15

Recarto

A simple, effective solution to capture abandoned carts and auto-send reminders. Track logs and generate reports on carts, emails, and more

Recarto

The facts

Rating
4.5★ from 28
Active installs
3k+
Price
Free
Last updated
22 Aug 2026
Added
May 2019
Requires WP
5.0
Tested up to
WP 7.1
Requires PHP
7.4
Downloads
211,500

Our analysis

AI-assisted

Recarto is a WordPress plugin designed for WooCommerce that helps recover abandoned carts. It captures information about unfinished orders when customers add products to their cart but do not complete the checkout process. The plugin sends recovery emails or Facebook messages to remind customers to complete their orders.

This plugin is suitable for WooCommerce store owners looking to reduce cart abandonment rates. It offers features like tracking both member and guest carts, sending customised recovery emails, and generating coupons to encourage customers to finalise their purchases.

Best for: WooCommerce store owners who want to recover lost sales from abandoned carts.

What it does well

  • Captures detailed information about abandoned carts
  • Sends recovery emails and Facebook messages
  • Allows tracking of both logged-in users and guests
  • Customisable email templates with coupon options
  • Logs reminder messages sent to customers

Where it falls short

  • Limited information on user experience or performance
  • No mention of additional features or integrations

Verdict

Recarto provides essential functionality for recovering abandoned carts in WooCommerce. It is a practical tool for store owners aiming to improve their sales conversion rates.

From the developer

VillaTheme's own description of Recarto, lightly tidied.

What is WooCommerce Abandoned Cart Recovery? WooCommerce Abandoned Cart Recovery is a WooCommerce extension that helps you to recover unfinished orders in your store. When a customer adds a product to the cart but does not complete check out. After a scheduled time, the cart will be marked as “abandoned”. WooCommerce Abandoned Cart Recovery will start to send cart recovery emails or Facebook messages to the customer, remind him/her to complete the order.

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Preview Abandoned Cart Recovery for WooCommerce

How to install and use the plugin

Important notice:

  • The plugin works based on WooCommerce plugin.

  • It is released on WordPress.org and you can use the plugin as free to build themes for sale.

Features:

Capture WooCommerce Abandoned Cart: When a user adds a product to the cart but does not check out. After a selected time, the cart will be marked as “abandoned”. WooCommerce Abandoned Cart Recovery will capture the cart information include: add to cart date, customer email address, added to cart items, cart total, cart status, and IP address. Then using this information to contact the customer, offer a discount, and request him/her to complete check out.

  • Track member cart: track the abandoned cart of logged-in users on your site.

  • Abandoned Cart time for Members: set the time from when a member has the last action with his cart till when the cart is marked as abandoned.

  • Track guest cart: track abandoned cart of guests on your site.

  • Abandoned Cart time for Guest: set the time from when a guest user has the last action with the cart till when the cart is marked as abandoned.

  • Abandoned Table: abandoned carts will be saved in the plugin back-end. And you can check the records at any time. The records provide information about time, username, email, item quantity, cart total price, items list, status, reminder logs, customer IP, and country.

  • Cart status: abandoned cart has 2 statuses abandoned and recovered.

  • Reminder logs: the reminder logs option allows you to check the email and FB message sent abandoned cart owner.

  • Exclude: exclude the username of persons who you don’t want to track their cart.

  • Capture email: Capture email address after customer entering their email at checkout page.

Send Recovery Emails in WooCommerce Abandoned Cart Recovery: The plugin sends recovery for abandoned carts and abandoned orders. When a cart or an order is marked as abandoned, the plugin will send a recovery email to the email address that the customer filled in the request email popup. Ask them to finish checking out the cart and offer coupons if it is necessary.

  • Send recovery email to guests/members: choose if you want to send recovery cart email to guests and logged-in users.

  • Email templates: you can create many email templates and schedule to send them at different times.

  • Send email rules set up to send different recovery emails at different times.

  • Reply-to address set up a reply to email address. If customers reply to the recovery email, the reply email will come to this address. By default, it is the admin address.

  • Offer coupon you are able to send coupons along with recovery emails. With each email templates, you can choose to send an existing coupon. Or let the plugin generate unique coupons with given values. You can set up the generated coupon will all WooCommerce coupon options.

  • Send email manually: in the abandoned cart list, you can select some abandoned carts and an email template. And then send recovery emails to select abandoned cart owners.

Notify to admin: Admin is notified by email when an order is recovered.

Reports: The plugin provides 3 types of reports for you to check the abandoned carts. Select the suitable report type and a time range to view the report of the abandoned cart in that time.

Pro version:

Request email pop-up in WooCommerce Abandoned Cart Recovery: A pop-up will appear when customers click add to cart for the first time, requesting them to fill in an email address to complete the add to cart action. After getting an email the pop-up will not reappear and users can add products to the cart normally. And the email address will be automatically filled in the checkout form when the customer goes to the checkout page.

  • Appear on: Choose pages where you want the request email pop-up to appear. Single product pages, shop page, cart page.

  • Required email: choose if you want to require an email address to add products. If this option is turned off, customers can close the request email pop-up to add products to the cart.

  • Dismiss time: set a time for the pop-up to reappear after a customer closes it.

  • Redirect after add to cart: when customers fill in an email and add the product to the cart. You can choose to redirect them to the cart or check out page.

  • 2 templates: the pop-up has 2 built-in templates for you to change the front-end layout.

  • Change front-end text: you are able to change the text message on the pop-up.

  • Change pop-up color: all pop-up text, background, add to cart button colors can be changed in the plugin backend.

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