How can I add a button to empty the cart at once?

FAQ & Troubleshooting · 2 min read · Updated May 21, 2026

you want an “Empty Cart” button on your Tickera cart page so buyers can clear all items in one click instead of removing each line individually — useful on long carts (group bookings, multiple ticket variations) where one-by-one removal is friction.

The honest answer: not natively in standalone

Tickera standalone doesn’t ship with an “Empty Cart” button. The native workflow is:

  1. Set every quantity to 0 on the cart page.
  2. Click Update Cart.

Functionally identical to “empty cart” — but two clicks per item plus an Update click. Fine for 2-3 items, painful for 10+.

The Bridge-mode solution

If you run Tickera via Bridge for WooCommerce, the WooCommerce ecosystem has multiple free plugins that add an Empty Cart button. Two solid options on WordPress.org:

Either works. Install, activate, configure (most have a settings page to pick the button label and placement), done.

Why we don’t add this to Tickera core

The cart UX of Tickera standalone is deliberately minimal — for the typical event-only checkout, the existing flow is enough. The use cases where Empty Cart matters tend to overlap with the use cases where Bridge for WooCommerce makes sense anyway (group bookings, e-commerce mindset, multiple product types). Rather than duplicate WooCommerce’s ecosystem, we point you at it.

If you want it in standalone

The Tickera cart is a standard WordPress shortcode-driven page. A small custom plugin can:

  1. Hook into the cart page render to insert a button.
  2. On click, call the Tickera cart-clear function (the same one used internally when you set quantities to 0 and update).

See hooks and filters for the relevant filter points. If you’d rather not build this yourself, contact support and we can scope a small custom add-on.

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