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API-added cart items missing from WooCommerce cart

Items added through the CoCart API never appear in the WooCommerce cart or later cart reads because the session cookie is missing.

Tier I · Proven The best-established problems.

5 public reports · first reported 14 September 2023 · last reported 8 July 2025

Idea report · $19 · No contacts · All sales final

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What's going wrong

Site owners running headless storefronts with CoCart report that products added through the API either never show up in the native WooCommerce cart page or disappear when the cart is read back later.

AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.

In the idea report

  • The full summary.
  • The products the 5 reports are about, and how many came each month.
  • Related problems.

No business has been found with this problem yet, so the report has no contacts. All sales are final — no refunds. Pricing.