Best plugin to speed up WooCommerce Checkout (conditional & custom fields)

Having a very slow WooCommerce checkout may result in losing customers! Today, I will show our best plugin to speed up your WooCommerce checkout page using conditional logic, custom fields, and user-friendly customization 🚀.

A simpler WooCommerce checkout form can help people finish their shopping. Less distraction over multiple checkout fields to fill means better UX 🙂.

I will show you how to use the plugin's best features to customize (thus speed up) the WooCommerce checkout page 💨.

Here comes our best WooCommerce checkout plugin!

How and why speed up WooCommerce checkout?

I’ve recently written an article about guest checkout and 3 tips to optimize WooCommerce checkout 🎉.

In short, better checkout can convince more shoppers to pay for their orders.

By default, your WooCommerce checkout page will contain standard checkout fields:

But, having more fields isn’t optimal for shoppers 🙁.

First, you can use the woocommerce_checkout_fields filter to change, remove, add, or reorder the fields in the standard checkout form using the array containing all fields, for example:

Customers will see the effect of using the code directly on the checkout page.

If you want to use field validation, you can use the woocommerce_checkout_process action hook. For saving and displaying the new field value in the order meta use the woocommerce_checkout_update_order_meta and woocommerce_admin_order_data_after_billing_address actions.

If you don’t feel comfortable with coding you can use a plugin to customize the WooCommerce checkout form.

Our WooCommerce checkout plugin (5 best features)

The Flexible Checkout Fields for WooCommerce plugin is a powerful Checkout Manager. It lets you add, remove, reorder, and customize the checkout page in a few moments 🎉!

Adjusting your WooCommerce checkout page with the plugin doesn’t require coding 😀!

Our best WooCommerce checkout plugin - feature list

Let’s see the 5 most important options in Flexible Checkout Fields.

1. Edit, add new, reorder, or hide fields 💨

   

2. Make a field required or optional, and add a custom class to each field 🎨

   

3. Show custom fields on the checkout page, Thank You Page, My Account – address, My Account – order, and in Emails 🙂

   

4. Add new fields to custom sections 🪟 of the WooCommerce checkout page (PRO)

   

5. Use conditional logic for advanced field behavior ⚙️ and additional pricing per field (PRO) 🪙

   
    
   

As you can see, we wanted Flexible Checkout Fields for WooCommerce (in free and PRO) to be our best plugin for fast checkout customization and effective optimization!

That’s awesome! With the plugin features, customizing the checkout form will be a breeze 🍃🙂.

Beat very slow checkout in WooCommerce (other tips)

I’ve shown you the best options in our plugin to manage your WooCommerce checkout.

Additional fields (text fields, option fields, picker fields or add a heading, paragraph, image, HTML, or a hidden field) and checkout customization options are just the beginning.

You can hide some fields based on conditions (PRO) to speed up your WooCommerce checkout page 🌬️!

Say STOP to a very slow WooCommerce checkout with our best plugin to manage the form. The extension alone will help you speed up your WooCommerce 🎉!

It’s also possible that your store is slow due to other reasons. Let’s name a few:

• Your page runs on a slower/ shared hosting and you have A LOT of stuff on the page.
• There are some limitations on the server (PHP, script, huge traffic simultaneously).
• Your customers try to visit the page in remote locations and you don’t use CDN.
• The store has multiple plugins and custom code/snippets that slow down your checkout.
• Too many shipping and payment options slow down shoppers.

You may address the last 2 reasons right away.

For the first three, contact your service provider to learn about any bottleneck your server may have.

You can also lower the page loading time by optimizing image size, limiting videos, using a shorter checkout form, and limiting too much content on your site (especially the checkout page) 👍!

More speed-up tips

Try to optimize by using newer versions of PHP, MySQL, WordPress, WooCommerce, and less heavyweight plugins. Plus use the theme/plugins that are light and don’t run into conflict with each other 🤦. This advice will help not only your WooCommerce checkout page!

What’s more, see if there are any errors in the browser console or logs.

Finally, you may also speed up your WooCommerce checkout by allowing guest checkout 🙂!

How to upgrade Flexible Checkout Fields for the newest features?

💡 This section will guide you through upgrade process if you're already using Flexible Checkout Fields PRO WooCommerce before version 4.0.0.

The newest version (above 4.0.0) of the plugin improved the user interface and conditional logic options in PRO. Follow the upgrade process below so you may use the latest features 🙂.

1. Go to Plugins in your WordPress admin area.
2. Upgrade Flexible Checkout Fields free first.
   
3. Then, upgrade Flexible Checkout Fields PRO as well (or install the newest version of PRO - you'll find the plugin in your WP Desk account for active plugin subscription ⭐).
4. Go to WooCommerce → Checkout Fields and check conditional settings. They should be transferred from the older UI to the new one seamlessly.
5. From now on, you can add new conditions for checkout fields 🙂.
   
6. With the new version of PRO, it's possible to hide, show, or set a field as required based on conditions.
   
7. Of course, you may create several condition groups as well as OR/AND scenarios.
   

Summary, test the plugin & documentation

Today, you’ve learned how to speed up your WooCommerce page with conditional & custom fields in our best plugin for checkout customization ⭐.

I have also pointed out a few reasons for a very slow store and how to speed up your WooCommerce checkout!

Now, I encourage you to see all features of the plugin and read its documentation.

You may also start with the free version of the plugin or test the PRO version in a free demo.

Of course, if you have any questions let us know 🙂.

Related Articles

Take Control of WooCommerce Edit Checkout Fields Using Smart Conditional Logic

In this guide, you'll learn how to configure conditional logic for checkout fields in your WooCommerce store. I'll guide you step by step through the ...

Customize the WooCommerce Checkout Page: Top Tips for a Seamless Experience

I don’t have to convince you that the checkout page is one of the most important parts of every WooCommerce store. The possibility to fully adjust it ...

WooCommerce Conditional Logic, Custom Fields & Product Options in one plugin!

Last year we released our plugin for adding product options, custom fields, and customizing your WooCommerce products. Many customers asked us to add ...

Customize the WooCommerce Checkout Page: Tips & Tools for Success

The WooCommerce Checkout Page is simple by default for there is no built-in option to customize the form in the WooCommerce plugin. So, how to edit, c...

WooCommerce Checkout - Settings, Shortcode & Configuration Guide

WooCommerce checkout features - which are mostly related to payment settings - play a vital role in running an online store. It's often thanks to them...