Lodestone Product Compliance – GPSR for WooCommerce

No, and be wary of any plugin that says it does. Compliance depends on facts about your products and your suppliers that no plugin can see. What this does is make sure the information Article 19 asks for is present on every product, and show you where it is missing. The rest is your judgement and, if the stakes are high, your lawyer's.

For each product offered at a distance: the manufacturer's name, registered trade name or trade mark with a postal and an electronic address; where the manufacturer is not established in the EU, the name, postal and electronic address of the responsible person; information allowing the product to be identified, including a picture, its type and any other identifier; and any warning or safety information required, in a language easily understood by consumers.

Only if the manufacturer is not established in the EU. Set the manufacturer's country on the operator record and the plugin works it out. If you have not set a country, it assumes the manufacturer is outside the EU and asks you for a responsible person — the safer of the two mistakes to make.

From that date, traders selling goods to consumers in the EU must display a harmonised notice reminding customers of their legal guarantee rights. It applies to all consumer goods, not just electronics. The plugin ships a plain-language notice and shows it from that date, and you can turn it on early. Note that the European Commission publishes an official harmonised notice with prescribed wording and artwork. This plugin does not reproduce it — an approximation that looks official would be worse for you than an honest plain-text reminder — so paste the official wording for your market into the settings screen when you have it.

No. It adds information to WooCommerce products, so it needs WooCommerce. If WooCommerce is deactivated the plugin does nothing except explain itself, and it does not delete any of your data.

No. The plugin itself makes no outbound requests, and nothing about your products or customers leaves your site. Licensing is handled by the Freemius SDK, which sends nothing on its own unless you opt in. Two things you do yourself do reach Freemius: opening the upgrade page loads its prices and checkout, and the optional feedback form shown when you deactivate is sent if you fill it in.

It adds one small stylesheet on single product pages and reads product meta that WooCommerce has already loaded. The catalogue audit runs in the admin only.

Yes. There is no limit on the number of products. Every product is checked the moment it is saved in wp-admin, and the ones nobody has saved there since you installed the plugin are checked 100 at a time each time you open the dashboard, rather than all at once, so a large catalogue fills in over repeated visits instead of timing out — 5,000 products take about fifty. The screen tells you how many have been checked so far.