Snap Showroom Basic

Snap Showroom Basic is a lightweight product catalogue for businesses that want customers to browse products and request a quotation without running a full e-commerce store. Core customer journey: Browse catalogue -> choose a product -> select size/colour where applicable -> choose quantity -> add to Quote Request -> enter name and email (other details optional) -> business receives an RFQ email. The core plugin deliberately does not provide:

• Public prices or supplier costs
• Stock quantities or automatic stock-status claims
• Checkout or Buy Now flows
• Online payments
• Shipping calculations
• Customer accounts
• Automatic quotation acceptance

Features in the free core:

• Catalogue products and hierarchical categories
• Product detail pages
• Size and colour options
• Quote Request basket and RFQ submission
• CSV and packaged ZIP import
• Repeat-safe product matching by reference/SKU, supplier code or exact title
• Local Media Library images
• External supplier/CDN image URLs without downloading the files
• External-image verification and controlled local-media cleanup
• Strict local image matching for multi-image product views
• Basic Rank Math-compatible SEO metadata
• Product and catalogue structured data without price/Offer schema
• Business identity, local logo colour extraction with automatic contrast, and optional manual brand-colour settings

1. Back up the test WordPress site.
2. Upload the plugin ZIP under Plugins -> Add New -> Upload Plugin.
3. Activate Snap Showroom Basic.
4. Open Snap Showroom Basic -> Settings and enter the test business details.
5. Visit the automatically created /catalogue/ and /quote-request/ pages.
6. Import sample-products.csv or create products manually.
7. If product URLs return 404, open Settings -> Permalinks and click Save Changes once.

Activation creates only two public pages when they do not already exist:

• /catalogue/ using [snapshba_catalogue]
• /quote-request/ using [snapshba_quote_req]

Snap Showroom Basic does not replace the homepage, set the front page, create industry pages or rewrite unrelated site content.

1.0.4

• Migrate legacy metadata keys with WordPress metadata APIs instead of custom UPDATE/JOIN queries.
• Preserve existing metadata IDs and values, including recovery of conflicts after interrupted upgrades.

1.0.3

• Bind legacy migration metadata keys directly in the database update query for WordPress.org security checks.

1.0.2

• Migrate legacy short identifiers to snapshba_ keys (products, categories, quotation requests, options, metadata, pages and shortcodes).
• Preserve existing catalogue post IDs, term IDs, RFQ records, linked media and settings during an automatic, repeat-safe upgrade.
• Update companion integration contract while preserving existing page URLs.

1.0.1

• Move the Snap Showroom Basic admin menu below the standard WordPress menus, as requested during directory pre-review.
• No catalogue, importer, quotation or persistent-data changes.

1.0.0

• Initial stable release of the free catalogue and RFQ plugin.
• CSV/ZIP import, safe repeat imports, responsive product displays and logo-derived brand colours.
• Customer quote requests, email notifications, local/external product images and optional size/colour variants.
• Completed WordPress.org Plugin Check corrections, text-domain resources and release packaging.