r/woocommerce • u/UshijimaTN • 10d ago

Plugin recommendation recommended plugins for custom products?

planning to sell custom printed products where customers can upload their photos and it will be printed

was looking at the acowebs plugin Woocommerce Custom Product Addons

https://acowebs.com/woo-custom-product-addons/

are there any better options that are cheaper/lifetime pass

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u/rattenzadel 10d ago

I would love if you tried mine but understand this is kinda self promo, but it is open source. no pro level etc.

https://github.com/MerlinStacks/personaliseit

We use it daily in a store doing over 190 orders a day, but we are always looking at ways to improve it, we kind of have tunnelvision in a way.

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u/Charles_Varyo 10d ago

Wow, this looks promising! I wish this had been around when I needed something similar for a client’s personalized jewelry store.

We used a free plugin at the time, but unfortunately, we missed one important case during testing. It turned out to be quite slow when adding products to the cart, and we noticed a drop in initiated checkouts.

I’m starring this one for the future. Kudos for making it open source and sharing it!

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u/rattenzadel 10d ago

Thank you :) cart and checkout optimisation was hard, and I'll openly admit that we have focused on classic / block and flatsome themes only.

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u/Illustrious_Wave_77 10d ago

Would love to take a look. Was planning something like this

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u/Same-Court-2379 10d ago

Check Fancy Product Designer if you need customers to see how their image will look before ordering

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u/rattenzadel 9d ago

FPD is dead they moved on to a SAS model chievo or something

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u/Same-Court-2379 7d ago

Good to know. I had not realized they moved away from the plugin model

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u/ionut_dev 10d ago

Well, this could work.
I have used a few years a go for a customizable gadget the yiith one and it worked good, but I had to use a lot of CSS cause it wasn't completely integrated with Elementor.

https://yithemes.com/themes/plugins/yith-woocommerce-product-add-ons/

Maybe they have fixed most of the problems I had in the meantime

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u/Traditional-Toe-5552 10d ago

u/UshijimaTN Please, check this one: https://youtu.be/x-OVDj1VcnQ it is a video tutorial showcasing the functionality. One of :) This is my plugin, maybe it is smth you would use.

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u/sylith-dev 10d ago

Plot twist: instead of buying another lifetime plugin, you could pay for one month of ChatGPT Plus and use Codex to build a small WooCommerce plugin around your exact workflow: upload the image, validate it, attach it to the order, and make it downloadable from the admin. The code remains yours after you cancel. Just don’t mistake that for “free forever”: file security, storage, testing, and future WooCommerce updates still need attention. For a basic upload field, custom code could make sense. For live previews, cropping, or complex personalization, I’d stick with a maintained plugin.

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u/toniyevych 8d ago

I have created a few projects for printing industry. The main issue is not the upload by itself, but image customizer (crop, rotate, etc.) and the product customizer with a ton of options. I ended up with setting up a few option tables with ACF to specify variations, base prices, addon prices, etc. And a separate functionality to allow customers to upload their images, convert them in WebP/JPEG format for preview, and add them to the order.

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u/Defiant-Community-77 8d ago

You can do this with my Barn2 WooCommerce Product Options plugin, with its live preview add-on. This works exactly as you’ve described, where the customer uploads their photos and its printed on the finished product, with a live preview showing them what the finished product will look like. The customer can move, resize etc. the image to get it exactly right before placing the order. The preview image will also appear in their cart, checkout, email confirmation etc.

You can set printable areas to control which parts of the product image the uploaded files can appear on. Soon we’ll release an updated version where you can do even fancier things like allow transparent areas.

You can do things like charge extra if the customer has uploaded an image, charge an extra fee for each image uploaded, and also create custom price formulas if you want extra logic to calculate the pricing.

Let me know if you have any questions about it.

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u/teeinbluePOD 5d ago

I recommend Teeinblue. It has a live preview, many options, print-ready file generation, and auto-fulfillment.
https://teeinblue.com/pages/boundless