ProductBay – High-Performance Product Table for WooCommerce

WooCommerce's default grid layout is great for browsing, but it isn't always the right fit for every store. Wholesale shops, large catalogs, B2B order forms, price lists, quick-order tables, and restaurant menus all need something different, a clean, fast, scannable table where customers can compare products, select options, and add to cart in seconds. ProductBay transforms how your WooCommerce products are displayed. Build beautiful, responsive product tables using a guided wizard, no coding required, and embed them anywhere on your site using the native Gutenberg block or a simple shortcode. Home | Documentation [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFp_4gpe-lY]

ProductBay requires WooCommerce to be installed and active.

Perfect For

• Wholesale & B2B stores
• Large product catalogs
• Quick-order & bulk-order forms
• Price lists & product directories
• Restaurant & food menus
• Digital product libraries
• Any WooCommerce store who wants easy and efficient product listing

Why ProductBay? Unlike traditional table plugins, ProductBay is built on a modern hybrid architecture:

• Admin Panel: A fully responsive Single Page Application (SPA) built with React 18, TypeScript, and Tailwind CSS, so the table builder feels fast, fluid, and intuitive.
• Frontend Display: A lightweight, SEO-friendly rendering engine optimized for Core Web Vitals, so your customers get speed without bloat.

No external CDN. No remote scripts. No data ever leaves your server. All assets are bundled locally inside the plugin. Guided Table Creation Wizard Creating a product table has never been easier. ProductBay walks you through a focused 5-step wizard:

1. Setup: Name your table and choose a product source
2. Columns: Pick and arrange which data columns to display
3. Display: Customize colors, typography, borders, and spacing
4. Options: Configure filters, pagination, and sorting defaults
5. Finish: Copy your shortcode and publish

Live Preview A real-time live preview updates as you make changes. What you see in the wizard is exactly what your customers will see on the front end. Smart Product Sources Control exactly which products appear in each table:

• By Category: Show all products from one or more categories
• By Sale Status : Display currently on-sale products
• By Specific IDs: Handpick individual products
• All Products: Pull your entire catalog into the table

Query Modifiers: Exclude product IDs, filter by stock status, set a minimum/maximum price range, and choose a default sort order (name, price, date, or popularity). Advanced Column Editor Full control over what data appears in your table and how it's arranged:

• Drag-and-Drop Reordering: Change column order visually with an intuitive interface
• Column Types: Product Image, Name, Price, SKU, Description, Add to Cart, Bulk Selection and more
• Responsive Visibility: Set custom width for each column in pixel (px), percentage (%) or auto. Configure per-column show/hide rules for desktop/laptop, tablet, and mobile independently
• Tablet & Phone Columns are optional: if left empty, the plugin falls back to your desktop column configuration automatically

Seamless WooCommerce Integration ProductBay is built for WooCommerce from the ground up:

• Simple Products: Standard add-to-cart button
• Variable Products: Inline attribute selectors (for each variable) right inside the table row. Visual indicators showing which variations were added, natively synced with the WooCommerce Cart
• Grouped Products: Link to product page or display child items
• External / Affiliate Products: Displays the external buy button correctly
• AJAX Add-to-Cart: Products are added without any page reload
• Bulk Add-to-Cart: Customers can select multiple products and add them all at once with a single click
• Selected Items Panel: A floating popup showing selected products with individual quantities, pricing, and remove controls
• Clear All Selections: A global "Clear all" button to reset bulk selections instantly

Search & Filter Help customers find instantly what they're looking for, without page reloads:

• Instant AJAX Search: Live search that filters the product list as users type
• Category Filter: Native dropdown to filter by product category
• Product Type Filter: Dropdown to filter by Simple, Variable, Grouped, or External product type
• AJAX Pagination: Page through results without full page reloads

Image Lightbox Product images open in a popup/modal with fullscreen toggling and close controls, built using native resources for maximum performance, with no bloated third-party library required. Deep Design Customization Every table is independently styled. Multiple tables on the same page will never conflict with each other:

• Colors: Background, text, borders, alternate rows (zebra striping) and hover states
• Typography: Font size and font weight per element
• Borders: Border style, width, and radius
• Spacing: Cell padding per table

Table Management Dashboard A centralized admin dashboard to manage all your tables at a glance:

• Search Tables: Find any table quickly by name
• Filter by Status: Published or Private
• Filter by Product Source: Category, Sale, IDs, or All
• Bulk Status Update: Update status of tables at once to private or published
• Bulk Delete: Clean up multiple tables at once
• Shortcode Display: Every table shows its shortcode instantly
• Date: See created, modified and published date for each table

Developer-Friendly ProductBay exposes 30+ action hooks and filters across all plugin layers, Core, Data, API, Frontend, and Admin, so developers can extend or modify behavior without ever touching plugin files:

• Hook into query arguments, cell output, table styles, and more
• A dedicated Hooks & Filters reference page is included directly in the plugin's admin area
• All frontend assets are only loaded on pages where a table shortcode is present

Translation Ready 100% of all user-facing strings are wrapped in WordPress localization functions. ProductBay is fully ready to be translated into any language. Coming Soon: ProductBay Pro We're actively building a Pro add-on that will extend ProductBay with advanced capabilities:

• Variation Popup & Nested Rows: Richer variable/grouped product interactions
• Pro Columns: Ratings, reviews, dimensions, discount badges, B2B quantity column
• Lazy Loading: Improved performance with lazy loading including infinite scroll or "Load More" button instead of pagination
• Quick View Modal: AJAX-loaded product detail popup
• Custom CSS Editor: Per-table scoped CSS editor in the admin
• Advanced Filters: Sidebar/drawer/top menu layout, attribute filters, active filter chips
• Import / Export: Backup and share table configurations as JSON
• Premium Templates: One-click style presets
• Analytics: Table impressions, click tracking, and a dashboard widget

Option A: Install from WordPress.org (Recommended)

1. In your WordPress admin, go to Plugins → Add New.
2. Search for ProductBay.
3. Click Install Now, then Activate.
4. Ensure WooCommerce is installed and active.
5. Navigate to ProductBay in the admin menu to create your first table.

Option B: Manual Upload

1. Download the plugin .zip file.
2. In your WordPress admin, go to Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin.
3. Upload the .zip file and click Install Now, then Activate.
4. Navigate to ProductBay in the WordPress admin menu.

Using Your Table After creating a table, you can display it using the native Product Table block for a live visual preview directly inside the editor, or copy its shortcode (e.g., [productbay id="1"]) to paste anywhere on your site.

1.1.1

• Improvement: Block setup experience with "Create New Table" link in placeholders.
• Improvement: Removed misleading product counts from category multiselect filters.
• Improvement: Enhanced reliability of CSS injection into the Block Editor iframe.
• Fix: Isolated table event handlers to prevent cross-tab state interference (e.g. AJAX filter state).

1.1.0

• Feature: Native Gutenberg blocks for Product Table and Tabbed Product Tables with server-side rendering.
• Improvement: Filters bar repositioned above toolbar for better UX flow.
• Improvement: Admin menu (WooCommerce > Products) renamed from "All Tables" to "Product Tables" for clarity.
• Improvement: Added a "Manage" link to the plugin action links on the Plugins page for quicker access.
• Improvement: Hover highlight improvements across admin UI.
• Improvement: Shortcode display layout refined on the table management page.
• Dev: Restructured codebase for Pro extension architecture.
• Dev: Exposed UI components and settings globally for Pro add-on consumption.

1.0.0

• Initial release of ProductBay.