Making the Add to Cart button go straight to the checkout page
On the flip side of having hundreds or thousands of products, you may only have one product, at which point the cart becomes pretty useless. In that case, you can actually have a customer skip right over the cart and land on your checkout page. It's one less step the customer has to make and keeps them focused on checking out rather than cruising the site, which should increase conversions.
Note
We have covered a similar recipe, Skipping the cart and going straight to checkout, in Chapter 7, Modifying the Checkout Process, which uses code instead of a plugin.
Getting ready
You'll need to have a product in your store.
How to do it…
This is a feature a lot of store owners have asked for, so there are several prebuilt solutions out there. We'll be using a plugin from WordPress.org that is quite straightforward and simple with no options, named Skip Cart WooCommerce.
- In the WordPress admin, click on the Plugins menu...
