AddOnBoss - Product Add-Ons & Extra Product Options for WooCommerce

Yes, and it is in the free plugin. A set or a field can show or hide depending on what the shopper picked or typed earlier, such as a thread colour that only appears once embroidery is chosen. Rules can be grouped with "and" and "or", and there is no limit on how many you write. Rules that compare a number (more than, less than, exactly) are in Pro.

Yes. Add a text field for the name or message, give it a charge if engraving costs extra, and add gift wrap as a tick box. The shopper personalises the product on its own page and what they typed reads on the order. If you write for an American audience: yes, this is product personalization, and customers can customize a product with color swatches, checkboxes and text fields.

Free: text, a longer message, a number, a date, a time, a dropdown, a tick box (checkbox), an email address, a web address, a colour, a price the shopper chooses, a hidden note, a section label and an info block. An option set shows as swatches, buttons (the job radio buttons usually do) or a dropdown. File upload, repeatable fields and per-letter pricing are in Pro.

A variable product creates a real variation for every combination, so five colours by five sizes is twenty-five things to create, price and keep in stock. An option set offers the same five colours as choices on the product page without generating anything, so the product stays one product. Use variations when each combination genuinely needs its own price, SKU and stock. Use option sets when they do not, which is most of the time.

Build an option set, for example a list of colours each with an optional charge, and attach it to any product from the Product Options panel. The product offers those choices on its page like a variable product would, but no variations are generated, so the product stays light and the editor stays fast.

No. That is the point. An option set offers the choices a variable product would without generating any variations, so a product with many colours and sizes stays a single light product.

Yes. A charge joins the cart line through WooCommerce's own pricing, so it is taxed exactly as the product is, in the same basis your store displays. Nothing is added as an untaxed surcharge, and this is true in the free plugin, not only in Pro.

Yes, that is what the library is for. Build a Colour set once and attach it to as many products as you like. Edit it in one place and every product follows. If one product cannot be had in two of those colours, tick those choices off for that product and the rest of the shop is unaffected.

Yes. Every pick and every typed answer reads on the order screen, in the order emails and on the customer's account, and they survive a reorder. Whoever makes the thing sees what was asked for.

On products with required options, including a required upload, AddOnBoss automatically hides Apple Pay, Google Pay and PayPal express buttons on the product page. Those buttons skip the option form, so the order would arrive without the answers you require. Products whose options are all optional keep their buttons (the Mollie and Amazon Pay buttons step back while an option is chosen), and express payment still appears in the cart and at checkout, where the chosen options are already included. It covers the major express providers; developers can override it per product with the addon_boss_allow_express_pay filter.

No. AddOnBoss works entirely on its own. If BundleBoss is also installed, the two share one option-set library, so a set you build in one is available in the other. Each plugin runs its own engine and they are built to run side by side without conflict.

The free plugin puts option sets on simple products. Options alongside a variable product's own variations are a Pro feature, because a page offering two choice systems at once has to reconcile them.

Options are drawn by the plugin rather than generated as variations, so a product with fifty choices is still one product with one set of data behind it. There is no variation table to load and no combination matrix to build. A product with twelve option sets and two hundred and forty choices costs four database queries to draw, measured on every release.

Yes. AddOnBoss declares compatibility with the block cart and checkout, and with WooCommerce High Performance Order Storage.

That is a Pro feature. With Pro, a file upload field lets the customer attach a logo or artwork, the file shows on the order for you to work from, and it is covered by WordPress's personal-data export and erase tools. The free plugin has no upload field, so it never accepts or stores a customer file.

Two ways, and which one you want depends on how you sell. A price table is a grid: you type the price for each width and height, and a shopper who asks for something in between is priced from the band it falls in, which is how the made-to-measure trade prints its own price lists. Measured sizes work the other way round, as a measurement price calculator: a rate per square metre and the exact dimensions the customer types. Both are in Pro, and so are quantity discount bands.

In Pro, yes. Put a count on a single option and WooCommerce owns it from there, so ten jars of one flavour sell out on their own while every other flavour carries on. A sale takes it off, a refund puts it back, and a sold-out choice says so and cannot be picked.

Nothing is deleted. Your option sets, fields, prices and configuration stay exactly where they are, and the free plugin keeps rendering and charging everything it can. The Pro-only behaviour stands down and waits, so if you come back later your setup is as you left it.

A couple of minutes. Open a product, use the Product Options panel, and attach a set or add a field. Building a reusable set the first time takes a little longer; after that you attach it in a click.

AddOnBoss removes its own settings and cached data, and nothing else. Your option-set library and the options attached to each product are your configuration, not ours, and BundleBoss may be sharing that same library, so uninstalling never touches them. Products and orders are WooCommerce data and are left alone, so the record of what a customer ordered stays intact. Reinstall later and your sets are as you left them. If you use Shop filters, switch it off before uninstalling to take its entries back out of your filters; an uninstall leaves them on your products like any other product data.