WooCommerce Side Cart (by XootiX) stores its display settings under xoo_wsc_settings in wp_options: cart width, icons, free-shipping reward bar thresholds, upsell visibility, save-for-later, and the [xoo_wsc_cart] shortcode. The cart contents themselves live in the standard WooCommerce session and refresh via AJAX fragments. SleekAI exposes both: the side cart's configured rules and the live cart state, so the bot can answer combinatorial questions without forcing the shopper to close the slider.

That keeps the conversion in the slider. A shopper asks how much more they need to add for free shipping, the bot reads the configured threshold from xoo_wsc_settings and the current subtotal and returns the exact dollar gap. A shopper wonders whether a coupon stacks with a Rewards milestone, the bot reads both the WooCommerce coupon rules and the side cart's reward configuration and explains the stacking logic.

Display conditions can scope the bot to the side cart context via the same XootiX hooks, so visitors who open the slider get the cart-aware bot and the rest of the site keeps the standard support flow. Conversation logs capture each cart question with model name and token usage, useful when operators want to test whether changing a free-shipping threshold actually moves conversions instead of just messages.

Side carts are a conversion tool first and a UI tool second. The point of putting the slider over the page instead of routing the shopper to a /cart URL is to keep the catalog visible and the friction low. The unfinished business is the same unfinished business every store has: shoppers stare at the cart total, wonder how close they are to free shipping, wonder whether a coupon they have stacks with a Rewards tier, and either guess or leave.

Side Cart Pro has done good work on this with multi-tier rewards and a free-shipping bar built into the slider, but those tools answer questions visually, not verbally. A chatbot that reads the same xoo_wsc_settings rules and the same live cart contents answers each question conversationally, in the same panel, without closing the slider. The shopper hears the exact dollar gap, the exact coupon stack, and the exact reward they would unlock by adding one more item.

That kind of clarity is what lifts AOV, because the shopper makes the decision with all the math in front of them instead of giving up. Generic chatbots cannot do this. They cannot read xoo_wsc_settings, they cannot see the cart, and they cannot do the subtraction.

They will either send the shopper to a FAQ page about free shipping (the slider closes, the cart cools) or guess at a threshold that does not match what the store actually configured. The variable mapping between the bot and the side cart's own settings closes the gap. It also lets the operator change a threshold in the panel and see the bot's next conversation pick up the new value, without rebuilding anything.